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| Authors: Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 101847
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 11
Pages: 800
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0324319800
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.15
EAN: 9780324319804
ASIN: 0324319800
Publication Date: March 3, 2006
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 Again not enough info March 29, 2007
Elizabeth L. Strauch (chicago, Illinois USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It goes into the questions but does not go into how to solve the problem well enough. Like every other financial book. Just once I wish the authors would realize they cannot skip steps on solving the problems! Instead of giving a COMPLETE answer. How hard is it????
 This book deserves 0 star February 3, 2007
Darkeyes (US)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is required for my finance class. However, this book doesn't explain the concepts well. For example what the book covered on the chapters have nothing to do with what were asked on the exercises. Students are often left in the dark trying to find themselves to come up with the formula (luckily we have the internet). If you buy this book make sure you have the TI BA II plus calculator. The book ONLY explains how to do most of the problems on THAT particular calculator instead of giving us the formula to use on any other calculator or using spreadsheet. Although there are some chapters that mentioned they will give instructions on how to solve the problems using MS excel but so far only chapter 1 gave us some basic information and rest of the chapters don't show anything (even though they mentioned it). So the words on the book and what you are actually getting don't match. Unless you have a very good instructor who's willing to work without getting help from the book, you are pretty screwed.
This book needs some serious editing (as I said the words and the contents don't match).
 Target Market is for undergraduates December 29, 2006
JWB (Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If interested in an MBA text, you might examine Brigham's Intermediate Financial Management. This Fundamentals text is outstanding for the undergraduate, intro course. JWB
Too basic for an MBA class November 21, 2006
CKS (Michigan/USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I got this book as the accompanying textbook to a Financial Management Class. Our class had to study most of the material on its own. As it usually is, the majority of the work is done at home hitting textbooks and figuring out how formulas are derived, which variables go where, and how fundamnetal coefficients (beta, alpha) are calculated.
Well this book is not well suited to acquire a solid foundation in finance without consulting better books or the internet. The result is: one needs much more time than actually necessary to learn the material.
Furthermore there are some statements; for instance "...multinational corporations (MNCs) issue stock in foreign countries..."; well I knew that, too, prior to this class. But why doesn't this book a little bit better explain why MNCs actually do this? There are several of such unexplained statements in the book. I am very disappointed.
Even though this book is really just about the fundamentals, it should have much better caught those fundamentals. I think I have to go to the Stanford, Harvard, or MIT MBA syllabi to find a good financial management book which goes a bit more in depth.
This book is priced by weight not by content! Definitely not worth the ~$160.
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