Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition) [Paperback]

R. Charles Moyer (Author), James R. McGuigan (Author), Ramesh P. Rao (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0324406363 | ISBN-13: 978-0324406368 | Publication Date: March 1, 2006 | Edition: 2

This text is a streamlined text for basic financial management. It provides a brief introduction to financial management, incorporating shareholder wealth maximization and cash flow management focus, with emphasis on international financial management and ethical behavior of managers. In addition, the text provides many worked-out spreadsheet examples to provide an even greater applications approach to financial management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 2 edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324406363
• ISBN-13: 978-0324406368
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,047,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Much ado about nothing, August 2, 2008

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PicOlio "PicOlio.com" (Franktown, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition) (Paperback)

The concepts in this book are fantastic. For a general read, the book is fine and will leave you "feeling like" you learned a tremendous amount. HOWEVER, if you are using this book for a class -- give it up. The exercises at the end of each chapter will leave you feeling lost, confused, and ignorant. These feelings will quickly turn into anger. You must read EVERY WORD of the text VERY CAREFULLY and then think outside the box. The highlighted examples are of little use for the exercises. Reading carefully and setting aside about 40 hours a week for assignments will get you a decent grade in the class. For a truly good grade, plan on spending a great deal of time at the library, researching online, and purchasing other books to cover and explain everything this book fails to cover.

By the 5th edition this should be a good book. Currently it is not.

P.s. The study guide that you can buy separately to go with this book is a bigger waste of money. The study guide is riddled with typographical errors on just about EVERY page. Additionally, after going through a college finance course using this book, it also became apparent that the teacher's answer key is also riddled with errors. If you get something wrong, question it, you may actually be right.

P.s.s. I had a 4.0 GPA (created with 17 courses) prior to taking this course. I did manage to pull an A- in this course dropping me to a 3.97 GPA but it took a tremendous amount of work to do that much! This is NOT an easy textbook to follow. The instructor will have to play a HUGE role in making it work. I took this class online and had zero instructor interaction. If you can avoid that do so!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible book!!!, November 21, 2008

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S. Wong "sw LA" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition) (Paperback)

In my finance class, we focus heavily on calculations and formulas. This textbooks isn't very "user friendly" when describing formulas and allocating the formulas to the associated tables within the text. I find myself flipping back and forth like crazy. Looking at the table then shuffling thru the text to find the formula. I'm used to using texts that have the table and formula being discussed all on one page or at least right next to each other. The text should show calculations, line by line instead of in paragraphs. I think that would clarify a lot of the sections.

I'm going to end up buying a supplement book like "Finance for Dummies."

2.0 out of 5 stars Difficult To Understand, January 7, 2009

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M. Welsh (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition) (Paperback)

This book is difficult to follow in an online environment. It may be better in a normal school environment with a teacher going into more detail. It seems to me that the authors of this book wish they were english majors and are not trying to explain this efficiently. They touch on several methods of solving the problems yet never go into detail about any of those techniques and leave you confused. I've been told that the best way to answer the questions in this book is to know Microsoft Excel extensively. (The book does not help you with this). I also feel as though many of the chapter questions are trick questions. Good luck to anyone else who has to use this for one of their classes!