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Essentials of Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Stephen A. Ross, Bradford D. Jordan
Edition: 4th
ISBN: 0072510765
ISBN-13: 9780072510768
Publication Date: 2003-02
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 592


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
This text has enjoyed incredible success in the last two editions. The introductory corporate finance market has embraced the “essentialized� product. The message for this edition of Essentials continues from the second edition - this is THE text for both finance and non-finance majors. The authors continue to maintain a corporate finance framework but have enhanced general business topics wherever appropriate.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5

1) A Difficult Read   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
Corporate Finance is a difficult subject. This book made it extremely difficult. Terms were not explained clearly or covered enough for anyone new to the subject to get an understanding. I used the web along with the text to get examples of what should have been more clearly illustrated in the textbook. I was very disapointed.

2) Beautiful cover   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This book was highly technical and made for very dry and boring classes but I learned a lot from it. The cover was absolutely beautiful.

3) Great!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I think the book does a good job of simplifying finance for those of us who are beginners in the field. They give clear, step-by-step examples so that it is easy to understand

4) Finance Textbook   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The textbook's price was competitive, it was delivered in a timely manner as promised and in mint condition as promised.I enjoyed doing business with this supplier.

5) Not sure why someone rated it poorly   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I'm an MBA student with quite a number of courses finished. I'm over half way through the finance course that uses this book and have found it to be written very well. The example problems are great, and the explanations are thorough. Our professor did make available the answers to the questions at the back of the book and used the powerpoints developed by the author. All in all the only drawback I could find was cost (as usual with college texts). As a side note, several students did use the 4th edition in our class with the permission of the instructor and did just fine.