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Corporate Finance: A Practical Approach (Cfa Institute Investment)

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This is a well-written book, but is not a "starter" book for corporate finance. This book assumes a prior knowledge or at least a familiarity with the topic. Also, what the previous reviewer of this book failed to understand is that this book is a "CFA Institute" book and was designed primarily for the CFA and not as a general college textbook.

Overall, this is a good source and the writers did a very good job!

This book is being use as a text book in the local MBA program. 11 out 34 students have stated the books is not foundational. It address issues at a higher financial level, it fact this is part of a series to study for the CFA certification.
The text discuss issues of corporate finance in vague terms and the questions are standardize test questions for the CFA. combine the vagueness and the standardize test questions makes the text hard to follow, confusing and 10 to 11 students have already stated this is the worse textbook they have ever used. (The remaining students I have not had a discuss with and do not know their conclusion about the test as of to date.)



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