Foundations of Financial Management

by Stanley B. Block, Geoffrey A. Hirt, Bartley Danielsen, et al.

Book Overview

"Foundations of Financial Management" has built a loyal following due to its strong real-world emphasis, clear writing style, and step-by-step explanations that simplify difficult concepts. The text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1259194078
• ISBN13: 9781259194078
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 685 Pages
• Weight: 3.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.2" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great

This book came very fast and was in better shape i thought than was stated.

Simple and understandable

I am a lecturer in college finance. I consider this the best undergraduate finance textbook for non-finance majors in the market, compared to the standard texts by Brealey & Myers or Brigham & Houston. It's simple, understandable, and a joy to read. Its organization is logical and consistent: beginning with accounting related concepts before proceeding to time value of money and capital budgeting techniques. Other books begin with accounting, then jump to time value and its applications, then jumping back into working capital management. It avoids complicated academic theory and focuses on the essentials and their practical applications. Some might complain of the lack of modern financial academic theory such as CAPM and MPT, but then again, how many managers really use these concepts in the real-world? 5 stars!

Very good book

This is a very good introductory book for beginners from a finance and accounting perspective.

Foundations of Financial Management, 10th Edition

Delivery was terrific. I received the book 6 days after I ordered it and it's brand new!

Very Good, But Not Excellent

As an undergrad taking his first finance class, I have have found this book to be quite useful. The concepts are explained in simplified, less-complicated ways and make reading each chapter less frustrating than perhaps some others (compared to some of the econ texts that I have had to use!). It is well-written, concise, and employs some very straightforward, easy-to-follow graphs/diagrams. Also, both the formulas and the exercises at the end of each chapter are quite useful.The only reason that I did not give it a 5-star rating is because some of the chapters did not use enough "real-world examples" or hypothetical situations in some of the more challenging lessons. This might better aid those students who are new to finance or simply need another angle to better grasp the idea.