Customer Reviews

Intermediate Financial Management (The Dryden Press series in finance)

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I'm a finance undergrad and currently in an MBA program and had to use this book for my advanced topics in finance class. The book is a difficult read. Hard to mow your way through the subjects and come out feeling like you learned something. CD is only mildly helpful. I also purchased the study guide and it was just as poorly designed/organized/written as the book.

If you have to use the book for a class, plan on getting one of Aswath Damordaran's books to supplement it. Damordaran is just hands down a better teacher, author and makes finance fun again.

I am presently in a MBA program and have been forced to use this book for our intermediate financial decison class. I have found it to be of very little help and actually muddles things more than clarifying or explaining finances. I have bought 3 other financial books in order to understand the class, all of them better written and far cheaper. This book is terrible in its' semi-explanations of financial formulas. Trying to tie these formulas and examples into any sort of problem application is almost impossible. If you end up having to use this book for a class, you must be prepared to spend a lot more time and money in searching for books that will truly do the job right.

I am an MBA student and had to use this book for my Advanced Finance class. It is the most usless book I have purchased for any MBA class. VERY hard to follow and it provides very complicated and unclear examples of how to solve problems or understand concepts. I also got the study guide which was more helpful than the book itself, but it also was horrible. I am not sure why professors choose this book. I used my other finance books and the Internet to help me get through the class, as this book was hard to read, not well organized and offered little help to answer questions that required financial calculations. You better be up on finance topics, statistics, and know all the little symbols because that's all the book provides you. It does little to help you apply real world solutions to "theoretical" problems.

I am an MBA student at The University of Texas at Dallas and I am using this book for a finace course this semester. So far the book seems to be very interesting and easy to understand. I am using the ninth edition so save some money but I think 10th edition would include some relevant information after the financial crisis. I wonder why some people have posted such bad reviews about the book. You have to have the introductory course in finance before using this book. For students focusing Finance in MS or MBA this book seems to be a good source of knowledge. I think the authors have done a good job in explaining dry financial topics.

I wasn't too impressed with this text. I found that many of the chapters were incredibly verbose, and seemed to confuse me even more in some instances. Perhaps one of the problems (obviously not Brigham's fault) was that my prof "wizzed" through some of these chapters, so reading the "wordy, never-ending" chapters was overwhelming. Further, I think that some concepts could have been more simplified, when instead Brigham seemed to ramble and "lost" me.

In short, I think some "academics" (profs, grad students, etc) might be impressed with the depth with which Brigham wrote. However, not all of the students are on the same level, and this must be taken into consideration when the author revises the text. We are using the text as a guide for learning, not as a means to evaluate the author's aptitude in the field of finance...

The BEST ADVICE I can give anyone using this book for a class is to GET THE STUDY GUIDE. Link -> Study Guide for Brigham/Daves' Intermediate Financial Management, 10th

You'll need coffee for this one. I am a finance nerd and love everything about it except this book. I gave it a mediocre rating because unfortunately you need to know most of it to get far as a finance major. It definitely has it all. If you get the study guide and read through the chapter before you start going through the actual book it will make life much easier.

Last advice. Chapter 3 will make anyone want to change their major. Don't worry it gets easier.

Good textbook, wish it provided cd with all powerpoint,spreadsheets and end of chapter solutiions.

I bought the recent 9th edition of this book, and on the contrary to the previous reviews, i have found the book very helpful (probably the authors made some big changes in this edition). It gave relevant and very good examples with mini real-life cases at the end of every chapter. One of the big advantages in this book is that it gives you answer keys at the end of the book so you can check your answers to end-of-chapter problems. Keep in mind that this is an advanced course textbook so it will assume you have previous "solid" knowledge of concepts like time value of money etc.

This book is very confusing. No use of examles and no free book website support. You can't find a solution manual if you need one. The professors in our school don't like it also...however they required us to buy it but they give us handouts and homework from other text material.....
Avoid it if you can chose your own book :(

This book is a P.O.S. The explanations are poor and confusing, results of calculations are used with no reference to the formulas (which are discussed many chapters later), I frequently find myself referring to other works for clarity, even on subjects I know well. Profs use this piece of trash because they are too lazy to make the migration to any of the many other better corporate finance books that are now available. Brigham checked out of the authorship business many years ago. This is now simply mechanical production from the Thomson machine.