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 Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition by Simon Benninga
Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. This book takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. In this sense, this is a finance "cookbook," providing recipes with lists of ingredients and instructions. Areas covered include computation of corporate finance problems, standard portfolio problems, option pricing and applications, and duration and immunization. The second edition contains six new chapters covering financial calculations, cost of capital, value at risk (VaR), real options, early exercise boundaries, and term structure modeling. A new technical chapter contains a potpourri of tips for using Excel. |
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 First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
Great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why. The frontline manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. No matter how generous its pay or how renowned its training, the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer. Buckingham and Coffman explain how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for skills or experience; how they set expectations for him or her - they define the right outcomes rather than the right steps; how they motivate people - they build on each person's unique strengths rather than trying to fix his weaknesses; and, finally, how great managers develop people - they find the right fit for each person, not the next rung on the ladder. |
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 Corporate Finance: A Valuation Approach by Oded H. Sarig, Simon Z. Benninga
Designed for courses in corporate finance,this text is a detailed description of the valuation process,providing an integrated,comprehensive method for valuing assets,firms,and securities across a wide variety of industries. The presentation begins with a review of financial and accounting techniques,proceeds with a presentation of the valuation process,leading towards the development of pro-forma financial statements and the translation of these projections into values. A key strength of this text is teaching students how to use pro forma financial statements as a basis for valuation. |
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 Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets : A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications by John J. Murphy
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets expands upon and updates Murphy's classic Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets. Packed with some 400 real-life charts that clarify every key point, it covers: the fundamentals of technical analysis and chart construction; what you must know about trends and the building blocks of chart analysis; price patterns, including major reversal and continuation patterns; methods of analysis - moving averages, oscillators, contrary opinion, and other indicators; and time cycles, market interrelationships, money management, and trading tactics. Beginners and experienced traders alike will find a wealth of immediately useful information in this authoritative, yet easy-to-follow guide. |
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 Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Disk by John C. Hull
One of the exciting developments in finance over the last 20 years has been the growth of derivatives markets. In many situations, both hedgers and speculators find it more attractive to trade a derivative on an asset than to trade the asset itself. Some derivatives are traded on exchanges. Others are traded by financial institutions, fund managers, and corporations in the over-the-counter market, or added to new issues of debt and equity securities. Much of this book is concerned with the valuation of derivatives. The aim is to present a unifying framework within all derivatives-not just options or futures-can be valued. |
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 Heard on the Street : Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews by Timothy Falcon Crack
The book contains over 100 quantitative questions collected from actual investment banking job interviews. There are also about 30 quantitative questions from investment management or options trading job interviews. The interviewers use the same questions year after year and here they are! These questions come from all types of investment banking interviews (corporate finance, sales and trading, quantitative research, etc), but they are especially likely in quantitative capital markets job interviews. The questions come from all levels of interviews (undergraduate, MBA, PhD), but they are especially likely if you have, or almost have, an MBA. The questions cover pure quantitative/logic, financial economics, derivatives, and statistics. Each quantitative question in the book is accompanied by a very detailed solution and by helpful advice. The latest edition also includes about 100 non-quantitative actual interview questions. |
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 Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy
Fiasco is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of one of the world's top investment firms, Partnoy recounts the macho attitudes and fiercely competitive ploys of his office mates. And he takes us to the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition, FIASCO, where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts. |
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 The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting by Harvard Business School Press
The 2002 edition of The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting provides invaluable job-search advice for the prospective management consultant. Harvard Business School graduates, students, and faculty reveal firsthand insights into the industry, describe what a consultant's work is really like, outline current industry trends, and offer guidelines for approaching the case-study interview. Also included are profiles of well-known consulting firms, a mailing list of recruiting contacts, and a selective bibliography of relevant books and directories. |
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 The Business School Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Excelling in Business School and Launching Your Career by H. S. Hamadeh, Andy Richard
Microeconomics? Activity-based costing? Process analysis? In the time it takes to figure out what all these things mean, you just might find yourself with an MBA. You'll get the scoop on the trials and rituals of today's MBA programs, and master such key concepts as industry analysis, net present value, standard deviation, and the capital asset pricing model. The Business School Companion also gives you the lowdown on MBA recruiting, case analysis, team projects, finance, marketing, B-school social life, statistics, and a realm of other topics you'll be scratching your head about. Plus, our survey of 12,500 current students and MBAs tells you what business school is really like. |
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 How to Get into the Top MBA Programs by Richard Montauk
This guide provides a detailed overview of the top MBA programs with sure-fire strategies for getting into the school of one's choice. The book tells what business schools are looking for in their students and shows how applicants can improve their chances with grades, GMAT scores, and work experience. |
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 Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle by John Rolfe, Peter Troob
Monkey Business is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers, John Rolfe and Peter Troob, of what it's like at ground zero on The Street. Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the reader the inside skinny on what working at an investment bank is all about." "Fresh out of Wharton and Harvard business schools, the authors ran willingly into the open arms of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenerette. Once there, they discovered themselves foot soldiers in an investment banking army of overworked and frustrated lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. Escaping with their sanity only partially intact, John and Peter have perfectly captured the chaotic essence of the Wall Street carnival and the outlandish personalities that make it all him. |
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