File Size: 10198 KB
Print Length: 432 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 18, 2013)
Publication Date: June 18, 2013
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00DHZCREC
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After reading the reviews and seeing that one of the one star reviewers made the claim that numerous reviewers showed just a history of reviewing only books by the author I went and clicked on ALL of the "see all of my reviews" for each review.Guess what. Sure as heck most of the positive reviews are just that. Contain only a review history showing just this book or this and other books by the author. It surely looks bad; it looks like someone is padding comments. Apparently isn't monitoring things too well and doing a cross check correlation to reviews and review history of reviewers.
It seems to me that either all "5star" reviews are fakes or written by newbies. Book is very basic.Nothing more or less deep. All valuation is just 100 pages of very shallow descriptions. I would probably sell it for the same price.
"Private Equity?" This is a very basic drawn out "modeling 101" - you can find better and more comprehensive guides on this from countless providers. And where is the private equity component to the materials?
This is not a practical guide for breaking into financial modeling. It goes over the modelling aspect extremely briefly. The author does a good job explaining the key concept. Nonetheless, he simplified it way too much.
Financial Modeling & Valuation is easy to follow, even for Excel novices, as it clearly describes step-by-step how to build the model and you can follow along with the Excel template available at the publisher's website.At times, the book may take a long time to get through as it will go through every step and every formula used in the model, including which cells to link thru, and indeed if you have alot of experience with Excel or financial modelling, you may find Joshua Rosenbaum's book more appropriate, as that includes M&A and LBO modelling as well as basic information on other Investment Banking and Private Equity.However if you are new to financial modeling, this book is alot better at holding your hand.I would suggest getting both, but if you can only afford one, then the chose would depend on your level going in.
I bought this book as a reference for my teaching in college. The content is not comprehensive enough for a whole semester, but it is very helpful and serves well for a 4-6 weeks module.The readers are asked to built a financial model from scratch using information from Walmart's annual reports. After the connected models is built, the readers are asked to conduct basic valuation with the model. The author assumes that the readers have no background at all, so he spent lots of time to explain very basic accounting. Thus I believe that this book is great for beginners. Even for business school college graduates, one can follow the book and get a connected model in a short period of time. I found this feature being extremely helpful, I can simply train my teaching assistants from different backgrounds by as them to read and follow the book.If you have no financial background, this books provide most value. For those business school students who is new to financial modeling, this book is a very good case study.The main complaint I have is that the readers may find it difficult to generalize what they have learned. Despite the author provides some guidelines throughout the process, most of them are about the modeling techniques. After all, this is a book about techniques. If you want more explanations on how the deal is done and the principles, Rosenbaum and Pearl is way to go. In fact, I end up using this book to complement Rosenbaum and Pearl in my course. The students walked away with a fully connected model which they can modify and apply on other cases easily.
One of the hardest things to do in investment banking is to learn how to correctly model a companies future value. Paul Pignataro's book is a step by step instruction that will provide a great foothold to learning how to model with confidence.
A great book for beginners who are unfamiliar to financial modelling or valuation. It is a book that can be understood with little background knowledge in business or finance.A note on the negative reviews:- For those readers who want an in-depth analysis of financial modelling and valuation - this is not the book for you. It is designed for beginners, and it does the job it purports to do.
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