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Paperback The New Corporate Finance Book

ISBN: 007233973X

ISBN13: 9780072339734

The New Corporate Finance

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Book Overview

This book is comprised of numerous articles written by top researchers and theorists in finance. The text is meant to bridge the gap between financial theory and practice. It gives instructors a way to introduce students to academic articles edited to eliminate the methodological content. The articles were originally edited for practitioners, so they are perfect for the MBA student. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Review from MBA / GE student

This book is excellent reading. Foremost, it discusses clearly all of the major issues today in corporate finance - capital structure, "what investors want", incentives and performance measurement via Accounting versus Economic Value Added models, corporate architecture, etc. The author is extremely engaging, and I must admit, this is the first "text book" I've had that I wanted to keep reading. The author is sarcastic,...

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Rated 5 stars
practical as well as academic

This book challenges you about what you really understand on finance. Before I read this I didn't like finance at all because it seemed too simplified. This book shows how the real world and people think. Especially, its chapter on risk is of a great help. Now I'm interested in some fields of finance such as internal corporate governance, real option, more refined and practical concepts than EVA, etc.

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Rated 4 stars
A good reference for motivated MBAs and practitioners

As the title of the book clearly indicates, the text advances corporate finance beyond the theory presented in texts like Brealy and Myers. Thus, the text is geared towards a more sophisticated reading audience. In a collection of articles, academics and finance practitioners discuss the real world impact of capital budgeting, dividend/share repurchase policy, financial innovations (e.g. convertibles, commodity-linked...

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent summary of various aspects of corporate finance

An excellent compilation of articles by top academicians in the field of corporate finance. The articles are ideal for a person who wants to get a good grasp of any area of Corporate Finance. Warning: This is definitely not for the beginners. It is ideal for practitioners who are interested in learning more.

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Rated 4 stars
Extremely useful and well written, if somewhat partisan work

This collection of articles from the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance is extremely well-presented and eschews a lot of the overly technical analyses and explanations that poulate other works. The concept of Economic Value Added or EVA is explained in quite practical terms as are the main corporate finance principals to which most readers will have been exposed through other texts.What is extremely useful is that the...

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