Which 2-4 Books before BB training? Scoop guide?

Hi all

Starting training at BB in London in about a month and about to go on a relaxing holiday for a few weeks. I have a degree in finance and have done a financial modelling course, so I'm pretty well prepared, but want to be able to kill it for group selection.

What 2-4 books would you recommend to take on holiday with me to be as prepared as possible for training and impressing for group selection? If you had to name 5, what would they be? Finance textbooks? Accounting textbooks? Narratives like Too Big To Fail, Big Short? Scoop Guide (which I own)? Rosenbaum/Pearl guide?

List your 5!

Thanks

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities by DePamphilis for M&A was quite good from and academic point of view.

I'm grateful that I have two middle fingers, I only wish I had more.
 

None, enjoy your holiday. BB training is a joke and if you have any brain you'll be fine. Getting into a good group is all about networking well and showing you have a personality, not showing off what little finance knowledge you have.

 
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Big Short was informative, but you don't learn how to do anything. So I guess its useful to have backround if something comes up in conversation, but I doubt it would help you perform better. I'm working through Rosenbaum and Pearl's book now. I'm only going into my sophomore year (so keep that in mind when taking any of my advice), but I am not having any trouble working through there book and it basically walks you through some analysis (comparable companies, LBO, DCF and maybe some other stuff). If you are interested in learning those techniques than it would be useful and it is a pretty quick read. Like keyboardcat said though, they might teach you all of that in training anyways.

 

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