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Bank Management and Financial Services with S&P bind-in card (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)

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Its fun to see the predominant viewpoints in this textbook pre-Lehman Bros. The eighth edition tries to incorporate some of the re-regulation going on now. This book is fine for a less expensive version of the same ideas and concepts.

My degree is engineer(not related to Finance or Business). I am a novice in bank service industry.
This book gives me a lot of useful and relevant information about what business and service is going on in the commerical banks(most are in US) everyday. English is plain and easy to understand. Maths is not much and at introductory level (which is enough for finacial service i suppose). If you are also new to bank industry, this book can be the first one for your learning.

I've taken quite a few finance courses for my degree and I'd have to say the majority of the books range from verbose to mind numbingly boring. I have read roughly half the book for my Banking Institutions course and I must say, from the beginning I was pleasantly surprised at how well the book is written. It is as if the author's knew that people were going to be reading it at some point! This isn't to say that the book isn't technical or informative, it is, but it can be actually entertaining at points with little quips out of place for most textbooks. This makes the sometime boring and monotonous task of reading a finance textbook far more bearable.