Recommend me a good corp fin book

In college for my corp fin class I used essentials of corporate finance by Ross Westerfield Jordan (http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Corporate-Financ…) and it served me really well. I stupidly sold this book as soon as the class ended because I was strapped for cash. It's not that expensive on amazon and I plan on buying it because I need to revise for interviews but if someone here can recommend me something better I'll just buy that instead.

Thanks!!

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randombetchMy school uses Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. It's a pretty solid book, very detailed. I recommend it.

Agreed. Using it or a finance class right now.

 

Vernimmen, Dallochio, Quiry: Corporate Finance Theory and Practice.

One of the most well written I've come across.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

The Pearl Book is good, but it bores me to dealth and the templates kind of suck. I know it is way more expensive than the book, but I have to say that getting the excel/basic and advanced modeling courses for BIWS was one of the best decisions I ever made.

 

I like the Principals of corporate finance by Ross, Westerfied and Jordan.

I found it to be awesome and it has all the things you're looking for. The new edition is pretty pricey at $208 but the previous edition can be picked up for $20 from Half.com.

 

Not to be a total dick, but just fuckin' do it. What is some guy on a website telling you to "read a book" going to do? Just read it, learn the shit, know what a fuckin' WACC is and move on. The more you know, they better prepped you'll be to do a job. End of story.

"To Know Me Is To Love Me"-Jebus Price

 

Like a lot of people out here already know I assume, I think you'd like Aswath Damodaran's website ( http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ ) as well as his pretty thorough book, "Investment Valuation: tools & techniques for determining the value of any asset" (Wiley Finance editions). This guy is NYU MBA corp fin guru.

This website is very useful as a student for finding info for case studies, such as WC / sales by industry, levered betas, and pretty much whatever you want. The book is also very useful for interview prep about DCF, relative valuation, etc... And it gives you a good idea on how to make reasonable valuation assumptions I think.

But it is a fairly "advanced" (though not a PhD rocket science book either). If you don't know much about corp fin, I reckon you could buy "corporate finance" ( Brealey / Myers / Allen, McGraw Hill editions ), used @ a number of top MBA schools, as an introduction.

I think they're helpful, especially Inv Valuation. And they're insightful & interesting readings anyway!

As The King puts it, and I seriously believe in that too, you'd better know your shit.

 

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