Paperback: 992 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (April 17, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118130731
ISBN-13: 978-1118130735
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 10 inches
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I have just read this book from cover to cover and benefited from it greatly. The author has a very methodical approach to valuation and demonstrates the application of principles through many examples. The closest competitor is the book Valuation by McKinsey, and with this latest revision of his text, Damodaran has I believe reclaimed the lead. It is human nature to want clear easy answers, but quite often in financial forecasting and valuation there are multiple options, each with tradeoffs and judgment calls. Damodaran often lays out the choices, discusses the pros and cons, and leaves it to the reader to decide among the alternatives. He does provide many applied examples, so the reader can see these sorts of judgment calls being repeatedly made and put into practice. The author's website at NYU provides a wealth of market and financial information, and he periodically updates this data. This is enormously useful if you are going to teach a class from this book, which I am planning to do.The author follows common academic practice (following Modigliani and Miller) of discounting interest tax shields at the cost of debt rather than the unlevered cost of capital. It seems much of the industry treats these cash flows as riskier and uses the unlevered cost of capital for discounting. This approach is also consistent with a constant-growth capital structure, which is often assumed in modeling the firm's future cash flows. The McKinsey book takes this approach as do I in teaching Advanced Corporate Finance. But this is a minor complaint.My chief complaint with the book is that it is replete with typos. Many of them are grammatical in nature (article missing, verb tense is wrong, sentence fragment) and, while irritating, are rather harmless.
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