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Principles of Corporate Finance + Student CD + Ethics in Finance PowerWeb + Standard and Poor's (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est)
by Richard A Brealey Franklin Allen Stewart C Myers

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Publish Date: 2005-01-25
Format: Hardcover , 1028 pages
isbn-10: 007313082610 isbn-13: 978-0-073130-82-8
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Reader' Reviews

Good Textbook / / 2009-06-23
I found the book as indicated in the ad. Seller sent the item right away.

Required for class! but still worth it. / / 2009-05-31
It's a good book except that it was required for my class. I might not have purchased it otherwise but it is very pertinent for my schoolwork.

Principles of Corporate Finance Book Review / / 2008-12-12
The book is helpful in some areas, but if you have not experience in finance you will need to do some additional research. The delivery of the book was excellent.

Disappointed / / 2008-11-11
The condition of the book was not as it was written. The cover was nearly falling off, makes it difficult to keep the book togeter. The binding was disintegrating as well

Hard, Unnecessarily Frustrating, and Brutal, But Worth the Investment / / 2008-07-29
This book is laden with very stupid errors, confusing in times of need, and gives rather poor examples that serve not illuminate the subject well at all. To be fair to the authors, I encountered my copy of this book during an intensive pre-MBA summer program, so I may not have been allocated the normal amount of time generally allowed for study. Still, that doesn't make-up up for blatant mathematical errors I've found on some otherwise simple problems. (Heck, there are even errors in some of the included examples!)

That said, you can still learn a bit from it. It is not entirely useless. Or, to better state it in financial terminology, "Capital expenditure in this piece of equipment has the potential to add significantly to your net present value of future capital inflows and increase net earnings." In other words, master this stuff and get seriously paid.

I wish I could find a better Finance book or reference out there, but I have yet been able to. I guess this is one of these subjects that people just cannot teach well because of the obscurity of the subject matter. Maybe Cerebellum Productions (the makers of the "Standard Deviants" tutorial videos) will catch onto this and come out with something genius. If they do, I can guarantee you that they'll be raking in the cash.