Customer Reviews

Financial Markets and Institutions (with Stock Trak Coupon)

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This book is a great introduction for someone with little background in economics or finance. It is also a good refresher for people that do have backgroungs in finance. I used it for the latter purpose and I still learned some things that I never previously knew. This book goes into a comprehensive examination of interest rates, fixed income securities, derivatives, and stocks. Easy to read and understand. Well written.

Jeff Madura is a great concise author who does not waste his time nor mine in talking over everyone. If you want a book that is easy to understand and will build upon your knowledge as you read...this is it.

I am currently teaching a class using this textbook. The textbook itself is decently written, although the transition between topics is not always smooth. The author tries to incorporate recent developments or international trends (the euro being a frequent topic) but these seem patched into the text. Still the textbook is definitely accessible for students, but does not many materials to provoke excitement or interest.

The materials provided for instructors that come with the textbook are truly underwhelming. Powerpoint slides are very bare-bones, and the testbank contains mistakes and questions that show fundamental lack of understanding of some concepts. I spend a lot of time creating decent powerpoints and need to be extremely careful and double-check everything when using questions from the testbank. If you are an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook I would advise against it. The cost for the student is high, the textbook itself is just OK, and you as an instructor will have a lot of work preparing.

The book I received today is good as it's expected but why couldn't you guys give me the package tracking services? Don't you guys know that is important to a Chineses shopper? I really mean this!

It is a very good book, but might be rather basic for advanced financial people. However, it is very easy to follow, so it might be good.

This seller is selling older versions of this book as the current version. Don't Buy From them.

The seller is a responsible person and is pretty prompt in replying to your concerns, I would reccommend any other people to buy

The product was as it was described. I received the text in a timely manner, actually it was soon after the purchase.