Advanced Corporate Finance

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The first book devoted exclusively to modern advanced corporate finance, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of theoretical and empirical literature on corporate financial policies and strategies—particularly those of U.S. nonfinancial firms—defined in rational, economic terms. Throughout, Cases in Point show theory in relation to financial decisions made by specific firms; and Real-World Focus highlights numerous articles from the financial press, providing insights from practitioners' points of view. Empirical Perspectives On The Financial Characteristics Of Publicly Traded U.S. Nonfinancial Firms. Valuation And Financing Decisions In An Ideal Capital Market. Separation Of Ownership And Control, Principal-Agent Conflicts, And Financial Policies. Information Asymmetry And The Markets For Corporate Securities. The Roles Of Government, Securities Markets, Financial Institutions, Ownership Structure, Board Oversight, And Contract Devices. The Leverage Decision. Analyses Of The Firm And The Valuation Of Equity And Debt. Industry Analysis And Financial Policies And Strategies. The Firm's Environment, Governance, Strategy, Operations, And Financial Structure. Market Efficiency, Event Studies, Cost Of Equity Capital, And Equity Valuation. Corporate Bonds: Terms, Issuance, And Valuation. Private Equity And Venture Capital. Initial Public Offerings Of Stock. Managing Internal Equity And Seasoned Equity Offerings. Dividend Policy And Stock Repurchases. Corporate Liabilities: Strategic Selections Of Lenders And Contract Terms. Mergers, Acquisitions, Takeovers, And Buyouts. Financial Distress And Restructuring. Debt Restructuring, Being Acquired, Bankruptcy, Reorganization, And Liquidation. Organizational Architecture, Risk Management, And Security Design. For CEOs and CFOs of corporations, senior lending officers at commercial banks, and senior officers and analysts at investment banks.

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Really quite good. Four stars only because it is so specialized........2006-07-02

This is not a book in advanced financial topics such as options or mathematical evaluations of arcane financial topics. It is a very interesting and well written book on various topics managers need to know to well manage the financial aspects of their organization. Of course, since it is about finance there are numbers and some equations, but nothing very complicated. What I especially enjoyed about the book was its consideration of alternatives, including negative outcomes, for managers making decisions. It also discusses conflicts of interest among various parties and the managers role and responsibilities in dealing with them and the considerations one must take as a shareholder, manager, or creditor (they all have different interests at times).

The book has nineteen chapters grouped into five parts. The parts are: I) Corporate Finance (a review of your basic corporate finance course - or a brief overview before you dive in a bit deeper water in this book), II) Analysis of the Firm and the Valuation of Equity and Debt, III) Managing Equity and Debt, IV) The Markets for Corporate Control (a fascinating portion of the book), and V) is just one chapter, Organizational Architecture, Risk Management, and Security Design.

This is a long book and some parts are quite detailed. Depending on your background, you can dive into it here or there looking for various topics. Since there is no glossary nor very many helps along the way, the book assumes a basic understanding of finance and corporate structure and finance (though the first part helps establish some groundwork in the latter). If you have had the core course from a good program in finance and corporate finance, you will handle this book well. If you enjoyed those courses, you will likely find this book quite interesting as I did.

Each chapter has its own problems and questions (selected answers are provided at the end of the book for a few of these in each chapter), a section containing issues for creative thinking, and a few projects for analysis. Some of the chapters have an appendix or two discussing the more numeric aspects of the chapter, but none are too deep. For example, Appendix A in chapter 10 on corporate bonds discusses yield to maturity and duration. Again, you probably covered this in your core course on finance. If not, you get the basic treatment here.

I think this is a worthwhile book for business professionals involved in finance in any way. It is on my shelf of books on corporate finance.

Good content, but try to get the Hardcover edition.......2006-03-20

I bought this book for my Advance Corporate Finance class.
There are a lot of interesting case studies. However, if you have the option, buy the hardcover version. The paperback version is in poor print quality (worse than any of my textbooks); not to mention the cover wears out very quickly.

Corporate Finance.......2005-07-25

This book is required reading for a Finance Class at the doctoral level. It is comprehensive but may require a review of financial termonology from student. The book does not contain a glossary of terms.

Mistitled?.......2004-01-03

This is a most interesting and instructive textbook, but I am not entirely clear just what its intended audience might be; I suspect it may be mistitled. From my perspective, the title "Advanced Corporate Finance" suggests some fairly heavy duty mathematics. In fact, there is nothing here of that sort; indeed the level of math is no higher and perhaps lower than you would find in a standard "basic finance text.

What we have here instead is a very helpful collection/summary of material on the institutional framework of corporate finance -- the kind of stuff you might wish your students knew before they ever started the technical part. Short of that, it has another good use: it's what you might call a "bottom drawer" book, i.e., one of the books the professor keeps in the bottom drawer to deploy for classroom examples -- thereby garnering an undeserved reputation for breadth of knowledge. This can only be bad news for the publishers: it means they sell only one copy rather than a whole classroom full of copies.

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Dr. Donald DePamphilis explains the real-world of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring based on his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals himself. The 77 case studies span every industry and countries and regions worldwide show how deals are done rather than just the theory behind them, including cross-border transactions. The interactive CD is unique in enabling the user to download and customize content. It includes an Excel-based LBO model and an M&A Structuring and Valuation Model in which readers can insert their own data and modify the model to structure and value their own deals. New additions to the third edition: 17 new cases, with all 77 cases updated, Glossary, real options applications, projecting growth rates. Student Study Guide on CD contains practice problems/solutions, powerpoint slides outlining main points of each chapter, and selected case study solutions. An extensive on-line instructors manual contains powerpoint slides for lectures following each chapter, detailed syllabi for using the book for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses, and an exhaustive test bank with over 750 questions and answers (including true/false, multiple choice, essay questions, and computational problems).

*Practical, real-world approach with 77 case studies from around the globe
*CD has customized content and the latest models and forecasting tools
*Student Study Guide on CD has practice problems/solutions, powerpoint slides, and selected case study solutions

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Clearly a Home Run!!!.......2006-03-18

This is one of those books that I wish I had written. As an experienced deal maker, I know what works and what doesn't. This book explains from a highly practical perspective the "art and science" of the deal. The author clearly has done his share of transactions in terms of his ability to capture the dynamic nature of the deal structuring and acquisition process. The author, as the chess master, goes through the development of alternative deal structures and strategies designed to consummate the deal. The process of offers and counter-offers is illustrated in a delightful and comprehensive case study at the end of the book.

The book is written with a fluid style that brings what for most are very difficult concepts to life in a readily understandable yet rigorous way. The author's nummerous insights are documented through references to recent academic and practitioner studies and illustrated by using recent case studies. I find the author's frequent use of brief studies of transactions to illustrate his current point very enlightening.

This book is far more than a reference or textbook; it is the reader's ticket to learning how to do deals and implement corporate restructuring activities. The book abounds with numerical and non-numerical examples to illustrate how to do things. The CD included with the text is easily worth the price of the book in that it provides numerous complex deal structuring and valuation M&A and LBO models. The CD also contains a wealth of other information including question lists for conducting due diligence and solutions to case study questions and problems contained in the text.

Yes, I wish I had written this book. But, then, those things are best left to those who can.

A Refreshing New Approach to Learning.......2006-01-01

Many business books take a pedantic, ponderous approach to what could easily be characterized as a challenging subject. However, I found the lively writing in this book to be very helpful to keeping my attention and to making difficult material more understandable. While the book is exhaustive, I found each chapter to be largely self contained. This text is clearly the most useful I have read on this subject. The CD included with the book contains models, presentations, chapter outlines, problem sets with answers, etc., all of which make this book the best available on the market.

Great Book and Great CD.......2005-12-22

This book is a one-stop shop for those interested in M&A. It covers all the relevant topics from how to develop a rigorous business plan appropriate to undertake an acquisition, to identifying and approaching target firms, to succesful negotiation, to planning and performing due dilgence, to planning and implementing successful integration, to financing the transaction. The book also addresses how to design effective takeover tactics and defenses. I was most impressed with the extent of the explanations about how to design and implement acquisition plans from a real world perspective. The author also addresses how to design effective takeover tactics and defenses. I also found the material on the M&A implications for governance very valuable.

The book is also very well documented. The extensive list of publications is very helpful for locating more articles and books on this exciting subject. I found the glossary of M&A terms among the most useful I've seen. It could be published as an M&A dictionary. The numerous case studies sprinkled throughtout the book are very helpful in demystifying the subject.

The CD included with the books contains a wealth of material often available on the internet for hundreds of dollars. The detailed M&A models and leveraged buyout models and due diligence question lists are available for customizing to meet your specific circumstances. I found the buyer due diligence question list in electronic form to be very valuable when it came time to making changes for my own needs The chapter outlines, study guides, and presentations also included on the CD are very helpful in internalizing the material. The CD also contains ansewrs to many case study questions and chapter questions.

All things considered, this book is a must have for anyone serious about learning the subject.

Highly Student Friendly.......2005-11-25

I am currently using this book in an M&A class and have found it to be an excellent business book. The book is exceptionally well organized, intuitive, and well-written. The book's use of bold type, self-explanatory headings facilitates the overall organization of the material, finding subject matter, and understanding key points the author is trying to make. The book is rich in examples, something that is often lacking in many books. The case studies for the most part of current, instructive, and insightful. The book is full of helpful insights and practical advice.

The CD -rom included with the book contains a lot of very useful stuff including powerpoint slides for each chapter, study guides for each chapter including chapter outlines and sample test questions and anwers, as well as anwers to many of the case study questions and problems in the book. The merger, acquisition, leveraged buyout and real option software illustrates how the pros analyze and value businesses. There are no secrets as you are able to access the underlying excel instructions to see how the models tick and to change them to suit your needs.

Overall, I would give this book an A+ for insightfulness, openess, practicality, readability,and organization.

Superb!!!.......2005-11-16

As you can see, I am very impressed with this book. It is by far the best book I have read on the subject in terms of thoughtfulness, organization, documentation, and practicality. It is full of well explained examples that make would could be a daunting subject understandable. The book comes with a CD that is full of M&A and LBO valuation software and excel spreadsheets, as well as a lot of other good stuff including powerpoint presentations highlighting lecture notes, student study guides, and answers to practice problems. All things considered, I would give this book a resounding thumbs up for those wanting to use in in their personal libraries, professions, or in the class room.

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Describes important and useful project evaluation and selection concepts and techniques that have developed over the past twenty years. These concepts and techniques--essential in making individual, corporate and public investment decisions--are presented in an integrated framework based upon traditional engineering economics principles. Four main sections--Basic Concepts and Techniques in Economics Analysis, Deterministic Analysis, Stochastic Analysis, Special Topics--cover a wide variety of subjects, including: accounting income, interest, inflation, the use of tranforms in cash-flow modeling, depreciation and corporate taxation, investment worth, utility theory, decision tree analysis and much more. A number of analysis techniques for public investments are described and decision rules for selecting among multiple alternatives are given. Features numerous case studies, illustrative examples, tables and end-of-chapter questions.

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A good book of ARTICLES but too academic.

practical as well as academic

A good reference for motivated MBAs and practitioners

Excellent summary of various aspects of corporate finance

The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Advanced Topics in Finance and Accounting)

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This book is comprised of 45 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 reader is the perfect packaging option for any of our Corporate Finance texts.

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Review from MBA / GE student.......2005-07-22

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, opinionated, but objective all in one. An excellent purchase for a course or just if you're interested in understanding the way markets and corporate finance truly function.

A good book of ARTICLES but too academic........2004-04-27

Chew's New Corporate Finance is a quite decent book on journal articles on finance issues from a corporate standpoint. Other than your professor's own choice of favourite articles, Chew's may be the next best thing you can get. I won't give it a higher rating (4 or 5 star) because it lacks ground-breaking yet still easy-to-read articles from the less technical journals like Harvard Business Review, etc.

Most of the articles are too academic coming from more or less the same journals. Moreover, the more technical ones have difficult formulas and number-crunching statistics which are more appropriate for MBA and MSc in Finance students, or those in researchers in "high-level derivative work".

I have the second edition (1999) of this book and used it sparingly for my MBA in Finance. And I've browsed through this new edition - what I found was there were not many changes made, only a few new articles have been added. Perhaps inclusion of some non-American articles would do justice to this book. Chew still keeps the classic ones though, which are always relevant. The roundtable discussion on EVA is interesting but Chew does not include criticisms on EVA shortfalls or problems.

On the whole, this text should be a reasonable introduction to high-level Finance and also a good supplementary reading for those doing MBA in Finance. But the editor's selection between technical and easy-to-read-but-important articles still leaves much to be desired.....

practical as well as academic.......2000-05-31

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.

A good reference for motivated MBAs and practitioners.......2000-05-15

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 bonds, derivatives, etc.), and bankruptcy on firms. Do not be scared off by the "academic" nature of this text. Unlike academic journals, the long-winded discussions on hypothesis testing and experimentation are abandoned (along with the high-level mathematics). The articles are very readable and any empirical evidence is presented in relatively friendly charts and graphs, which do a great job at providing the proper intuition. More importantly, the authors usually include real world anecdotal evidence to support the conclusions, as well.

Excellent summary of various aspects of corporate finance.......1999-09-30

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.

Advanced Capital Budgeting: Refinements in the Economic Analysis of Investment Projects

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Author: Kasper, Larry J., 1947-
Title: Business valuations : advanced topics / Larry J. Kasper.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1997.
Edition Date: 1997
Language: English
Physical Details: ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects: Corporations--Valuation.
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