Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (November 9, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470128895
ISBN-13: 978-0470128893
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1 x 10.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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This book has a wealth of solid technical material for corporate finance. Very useful for understanding the logic behind the valuation and modeling that most investment bankers take for granted. Although most bankers will never make use of some technical details, the framework is essential.
This book is the greatest book I have found on applied corporate finance. It has the equivalent of a standard Corporate Finance course in Chapter 2. The remaining chapters expand the theoretical financial valuation framework and then show students that terms, structure, probability, and the control premium are fare more valuable insights than knowing WACC to one more decimal place.If you buy it, buy the hardcover, you'll refer to its insights often.
I bought this book for my last M&A class, and as I am going through the book now, I find it to be riddled with computational errors. Why is that so? Shouldn't there be editors to check for these sorts of simple mistakes? Within the first few chapters, some of the problems and examples given in the chapter have data that don't match up and can cause confusion for those who are using it. Other than that, this book seems like a good backup reference, but all the math errors really make this book seem very unprofessional.
One of the few texts that covers the differences in valuation situations. Valuable as a reference. My only negative, CD did not come with the book, otherwise 5 stars.
I was going over the reviews for this book and noticed that 8 of them occurred within a very short span around the beginning of December 2004. They were all 5 star reviews, and except for one person, this book was the only book they had reviewed (nothing before, nothing since). There were 2 one star reviews from the same period - actually a 1 star review started the series.How likely is it that this was a random set of events? It would appear that someone was trying to juice the ratings. I've seen this with a few other books as well, and was wondering if anyone had another explanation. I find it hard to believe that an author like Arzac would attempt such a thing, but you never know.
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