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List Price: $181.20 Price: $158.55 You Save: $22.65 (13%) "Highly recommend!" - By GG
Great textbook! We used this for our Enterprise Security course, and it was extremely well-written, understandable, and the exercises at the end were great. Loved having a glossary, since IT terminology is still new to me. Highly recommend!(31) -
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List Price: $29.95 Price: $22.46 You Save: $7.49 (25%) "Especially Good for Financing and Acquisitions Contracts" - By Thomas Oswald (Bristow, VA USA)
This is a good book on contract drafting, which I recommend if you write contracts dealing with financing and acquisitions, which is the author's specialty.
For a more comprehensive resource on contract drafting, I recommend [[ASIN:1604420286 Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Second Edition]] by Ken Adams. That book, and Ken's web site AdamsDrafting are, in my opinion, the best sources available for advice on contract drafting.(41) -
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Has helped me tremendously as a new Supervisor in the Federal Government. I was able to develop a metric system that is both cost effective and efficient.(2) -
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List Price: $100.00 Price: $63.68 You Save: $36.32 (36%) "Very helpful book!!" - By NS
I used it for my Corporate Finance class and this book is as thorough as you can get. It made it so easy for me and I easily sailed by the entire semester without taking any additional notes and solely based on this book.(27) -
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List Price: $95.00 Price: $50.02 You Save: $44.98 (47%) "Understanding Financial Modeling" - By Big T
If you have no clue what you are doing in financial modeling. This is the foundation to learn the building blocks. Excellent guide to understanding the basics and in arounds in a financial model. If you are looking into anything in investment banking, equity research, or even investor relations its the Bible to have at your desk if you have any questions late at night or early AM's.(387) -
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The Bond Book, Third Edition: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More (Professional Finance & Investment)by Annette Thau- In Stock.
List Price: $38.00 Price: $22.10 You Save: $15.90 (42%) "Everything you ever wanted to know..." - By J. DOUGLAS-SMITH (Perth, WA, Australia)
This book certainly warrants the alternate title "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bonds But Were Afraid to Ask!" Although I enjoyed "Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth" by the Richelsons, I think this is a more thorough and impartial look at the subject of investing in Bonds. In particular I like the way Annette Thau looks at Bond Funds, an area that the Richelsons all but dismiss in favour of their own brand of all-bond portfolio. It's just a pity that Australia has such an under-developed retail bond market compared to the US, otherwise I would be adopting 100% of her suggestions. Sadly I'm left with no option but to use Bond funds, about which I am now much more confident thanks to Ms. Thau!(81) -
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List Price: $26.99 Price: $19.45 You Save: $7.54 (28%) "Good intro to banking functions" - By Gderf
The first part of the book covers the functions involved in investment banking. It covers the differences between commercial and investment banking. It's very good on how investment bankers earn their money. It justifies their value to the business world. It's sparse on legislation and capital requirements. It's vague on what can constitute a bank asset, but I suppose that's realistically reflective of regulation uncertainty. There is nothing on the inordinate political power wielded by large investment banks. There is a section on corrupt practices, but banker bashing is not the purpose of the book.
The second half contains cookbook formulas for risk investment written from a banking point of view that seeks to investigate potential operating improvement rather than emphasizing current value. The formulas don't include the important dividend coverage ratio. My guess is that's because it's important for dividend investors, but not so much for bankers ... full review(12) -
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List Price: $26.99 Price: $19.31 You Save: $7.68 (28%) "A fascinating read if you work in the security world ..." - By Amazon Customer
A fascinating read if you work in the security world, are interested in military history, or just curious to learn about red teaming. Many of the organizational shortcomings the Zenko writes about will be familiar to anybody who works in a mid-size or large organization. Worth the purchase.(32) -
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List Price: $100.00 Price: $55.00 You Save: $45.00 (45%) "Knowledge Is Money" - By Gregory DiSalvio
This detailed text expounds on the concepts and theories that the practice of which are important to investors and other corporate business minded people. The degree of information related requires background knowledge and some experience with advanced terminology. I highly recommend this book for those well versed in business and who are looking for the extra edge information can provide. I chose this text as a capstone to my personal learning prior to going for my Masters degree. I was impressed and would not have chosen a different work.(7) -
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The perfect book in order to improve corporate valuation skills!!!(27) -
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List Price: $16.95 Price: $11.28 You Save: $5.67 (33%) "Here's the crime, where's the sheriff?" - By Interested customer (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
I don't know enough about the mysteries of Wall Street, much less of high frequency trades (HFT's), to even guess whether Lewis' scathing indictment is factually accurate or not. From other reviews is appears that even those claiming knowledge aren't sure, either. But I have a bias--I am a "where are the customers' yachts?" observer, who believes that the function of the SEC is the same as that of the police who arrest a young basketball player for "point shaving"--protecting the professional gamblers so they can about in peace their business of fleecing the suckers. Just so, Lewis assets, repeatedly and forcefully, that the HFT's are basically front running other investors, gaming the market, and that It is the very systems the SEC has required of the markets that makes this possible.
What is, in my view, far worse than the game playing by ... full review(3,290) -
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List Price: $15.95 Price: $6.19 You Save: $9.76 (61%) "FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE" - By richard e whitelock (New Albany, OH)
My daughter graduated from Princeton in 1999. She knew many of the young men who graduated with finance degrees and headed off to New York City and the promise of Wall Street and all the fast talking and fast living young men and women who left to seek their fortunes. A few decades earlier, a firm as Soloman recruited heavily from the Ivy's. They promised these young graduates untold riches in exchange for three years of their lives non-stop hawking the Soloman product to the unsuspecting investment public. Once on "the floor" they all participated in a game known as Liar's Poker. It was a game of gross deception and bluffing. Greed, gluttony were the operative words and the sales representatives were encouraged to say anything short of breaking the rather soft and unenforceable laws governing financial investment brokers. I can tell you that real estate agents were held to ... full review(920) -
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List Price: $64.99 Price: $53.57 You Save: $11.42 (18%) "Not Your Average Financial Textbook" - By jkb (Brooklyn, NY)
You can't do better than Mr. Kricheff's book if you want to prepare for a career in leveraged finance. You will find it's a refreshing departure from purely abstract financial theory and that it provides you with some truly pragmatic tools for excelling in finance. It is also a great desk reference for those already working in the business.
There is no substitute for actual work experience, not matter what field you are in. In his book, Mr. Kricheff deftly compiles and delivers to you what he has learned over his long and successful career in leveraged finance. He blends academic theory with practical real world examples across a breadth of situations -- from pricing risk on steady high quality credits to distressed restructuring scenarios. He's done it all and does an excellent job making complex concepts easy to understand for beginners, yet comprehensive enough to appeal to professionals.(26) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $10.08 You Save: $7.92 (44%) "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it." - By chiplatt (Chicago)
I decided upon this book because although it has been almost fifteen years since the collapse of the hedge fund LTCM, the afterword was written in 2010, and I wanted to see what parallels there were between LTCM and the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Roger Loewensten describes how the extreme perils of derivative risk that brought down LTCM, were fundamentally the same risks that caused the financial crisis ten years later. He astutely notes that contrary to many observers, these events were not "the perfect storm," but rather largely poorly understood market forces. Although there is ample evidence of the greed of the LTCM partners, the decription of the formation and growth of the fund suggests it was the unmitigated hubris of the Nobel Laureates and other high IQ partners that contributed to the failure of this fund. This book is well written, with a focus ... full review(414)