Finance Just in Time (Cloth): Understanding the Key to Business and Investment Before It?s Too Late [Hardcover]

Hugo Dixon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1587990628 | ISBN-13: 978-1587990625 | Publication Date: March 17, 2001 | Edition: 1

Finance Just in Time is a hands-on, no-equations guide to both corporate finance and the financial markets. Author Hugo Dixon, former editor of the Lex Column for the Financial Times, explains topics such as risk, return, cost of capital, valuation, shareholder value, mergers & acquisitions, stocks, currency, bond markets, and crises and crashes in a highly accessible manner. The book is geared to business and non-business professionals who need a stronger understanding of finance and how it works.

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[A] valiant and ultimately successful attempt to introduce corporate finance and capital markets theory to the general reader. -- Financial Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Hugo Dixon was the former editor of the Financial Times? Lex column (perhaps the most widely read financial column) and was named Business Journalist of the Year at the Business Press Awards in 2000. Dixon is now Editor and Chairman of BreakingViews.com, which aims to be Europe?s first online service specializing in financial comment that provides high quality commentary on the big financial stories of the day ? on the day they break. Hugo Dixon lives in London, UK.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 293 pages
• Publisher: Texere; 1 edition (March 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587990628
• ISBN-13: 978-1587990625
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,608,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, July 11, 2006

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Nicholas Warren (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finance Just in Time: Understanding the Key to Business and Investment Before It's Too Late (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book.

Don't be fooled by the chatty tone and examples. The author knows what he is talking about as a former editor of the Lex column in the Financial Times, which should be daily, essential reading for staying up-to-date with market events, and would make an excellent follow-on to this book.

I have often recommended this book to people beginning a study of Finance (e.g., starting an MBA) and the feedback has always been superb. Reading this book carefully will give the reader an excellent base from which to acquire more detials later on. Even for more experienced professionals (particularly in corporate finance), sometimes the forest can get lost for the trees and this book will re-orient you.

Well done, Hugo Dixon - I do hope this book can be kept in-print and current. Possibly also, it would be wonderful to expand coverage of markets topics on the investor side (perhaps a criterion for what to include would be to be able to read and understand anything in the Lex column).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, January 3, 2003

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James H. McDuffie (Huntsville, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finance Just in Time: Understanding the Key to Business and Investment Before It's Too Late (Paperback)

Hugo Dixon describes virtually every aspect of finance that the average individual needs to know to live in the world and survive, and he does it in such a way that even the most uninitiated can understand. This is truly a one of a kind book. I know of no other that covers the range in such an elementary manner. I constantly refer to it in addition to my more advanced books on finance.