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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.15 EAN: 9780471702184 Edition: 4 ISBN: 0471702188 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: June 08, 2005 Publisher: Wiley Studio: Wiley Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Hailed by financial professionals worldwide as the single best guide of its kind, Valuation, Fourth Edition with CD-ROM combines is thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect business conditions in today’s volatile global economy. Valuation provides up-to-date insights and practical advice on how to create, manage, and measure an organization’s value. Along with all-new case studies that illustrate how valuation techniques and principles are applied in real-world situations, this comprehensive guide has been updated to reflect the events of the Internet bubble and its effect on stock markets, new developments in academic finance, changes in accounting rules (both U. S. and IFRS), and an enhanced global perspective. This package contains a solid framework that managers at all levels, investors, and students have come to trust. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Senior Manager at AccentureThe workbook force you to look at the information you received from "Valuation" from different perspective and you will recognize what you missed or misunderstood. Also, application of "Valuation" concepts in a controlled environment will make you confident that you are applying "Valation" correctly/appropriately in the real life. This is important since the matter being discussed is directly related to money! Rating: - The CD mentioned in the summary is disappointingly not included with this book....The book itself is excellent and exactly what I was hoping for. Amazon Customer services assured me that the CD was included and even sent me a second copy but there was no CD again..... I thought it was too much of a bargain to be true...and it was !! I will scrutinise the summary more diligently next time ;) Rating: - Good read but brush up on your mathI found this book to be a great read in learning about all the various aspects that go into the valuation of a company. It does a great job of making you look at what makes a company tick and how it affects a valuation. The base of the book is the DCF (Discounted Cash Flows) model. It describes many of the formulas used. I am not a math major or anything so many of them were over my head. The authors did a good job of describing the formulas but if you don't have a good solid foundation ... Read More Rating:  - UselessPeople buy this book to evaluate companies and make investment decisions, don't they? If that's most of the readers' goal, this book is pretty much useless. The calculation of net present value (NPV) of companies is purely a concept, which sounds great but impossible to accurately capture quantitatively using a formula. The difficult is in evaluating stable future cash flow, not on how to calculate the NPV. The evaluation of future cash flow depends on the history of a company, ... Read More Rating: - Khurrum's ReviewBeing an investment banker, I found this book very productive for enhancing my knowledgebase. This book exposed me to several valuation techniques depending upon the type of industry. Furthermore, I am very pleased with the effective service which is provided by Amazon.com to deliver this book to me. |
