Principles of Corporate Finance with S&P bind-in card (Hardcover)

by Richard Brealey (Author), Stewart Myers (Author), Franklin Allen (Author)

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Product Description
Principles of Corporate Finance is the worldwide leading text that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout the book the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. The text is comprehensive, authoritative, and modern and yet the material is presented at a common sense level. The discussions and illustrations are unique due to the depth of detail blended with a distinct sense of humor for which the book is well known and highly regarded. This text is a valued reference for thousands of practicing financial managers.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1056 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 9 edition (October 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073368695
• ISBN-13: 978-0073368696
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,739 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not an easy read for newbies, June 23, 2008

By	I. haque "mba student" (detroit, mi) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am an mba student and this book takes a long time to get use too. The authors do not help you understand concepts easily if you are new to finance in general. I wasted a lot of time trying to understand material about topics by reading the back. It lacked the essentials to point out key concepts with good examples. Look to other easier books to understand with examples. This book is unnecessarily wordy.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars kia, August 17, 2008

By	kia - See all my reviews

This book is waste of moeny. I am a MBA student and had to read this book for the course. There was not a single page of this book that was easy to read. I had to read other finance books at the end. It is inadequate and does not explain many important concepts in finance. It jumps into complicated issues without explaining the basics. It lacks defenition of terms. I have compared this to other finance books and found this very inadequate and difficult to understand.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Book, March 31, 2009

By	Diane P. - See all my reviews

I like this book because it addresses the reader directly. It is extremely useful if corporate finance is not new to you . I had already read "Fundamentals of Corporate Finance" by the same authors which is more for the beginning finance student and that helped a lot with this book.