26 Oct, 2008
Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition)
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Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition)
Binding : Paperback
ProductGroup : Book
Manufacturer : South-Western College Pub
Label : South-Western College Pub
Publisher : South-Western College Pub
Studio : South-Western College Pub
Lowest Used Price: USD $49.00
Lowest New Price: USD $51.22
This text is a streamlined text for basic financial management. It provides a brief introduction to financial management, incorporating shareholder wealth maximization and cash flow management focus, with emphasis on international financial management and ethical behavior of managers. In addition, the text provides many worked-out spreadsheet examples to provide an even greater applications approach to financial management.
Terrible book!!! (2008-11-22)
In my finance class, we focus heavily on calculations and formulas. This textbooks isn't very "user friendly" when describing formulas and allocating the formulas to the associated tables within the text. I find myself flipping back and forth like crazy. Looking at the table then shuffling thru the text to find the formula. I'm used to using texts that have the table and formula being discussed all on one page or at least right next to each other. The text should show calculations, line by line instead of in paragraphs. I think that would clarify a lot of the sections.
I'm going to end up buying a supplement book like "Finance for Dummies."
PicOlio read my mind (2008-11-21)
PicOlio wrote almost exactly how I feel about this book. Read that review for a good indication of how terrible this book is.
This is the worst textbook I have ever used. If you get assigned a class that uses this book, drop it and complain to the school.
horrible book (2008-11-13)
This book is a requirement for FIN200 at University of Phoenix. The book is very vague, confusing, and almost speaks in circles. It gives you no help in setting up certain equations. I truly believe, if I do pass this course, that the book has no part in helping. I've learned more by googling terms to find information needed for our home work or class discussions. Beware!
Much ado about nothing (2008-08-02)
The concepts in this book are fantastic. For a general read, the book is fine and will leave you "feeling like" you learned a tremendous amount. HOWEVER, if you are using this book for a class -- give it up. The exercises at the end of each chapter will leave you feeling lost, confused, and ignorant. These feelings will quickly turn into anger. You must read EVERY WORD of the text VERY CAREFULLY and then think outside the box. The highlighted examples are of little use for the exercises. Reading carefully and setting aside about 40 hours a week for assignments will get you a decent grade in the class. For a truly good grade, plan on spending a great deal of time at the library, researching online, and purchasing other books to cover and explain everything this book fails to cover.
By the 5th edition this should be a good book. Currently it is not.
P.s. The study guide that you can buy separately to go with this book is a bigger waste of money. The study guide is riddled with typographical errors on just about EVERY page. Additionally, after going through a college finance course using this book, it also became apparent that the teacher's answer key is also riddled with errors. If you get something wrong, question it, you may actually be right.
P.s.s. I had a 4.0 GPA (created with 17 courses) prior to taking this course. I did manage to pull an A- in this course dropping me to a 3.97 GPA but it took a tremendous amount of work to do that much! This is NOT an easy textbook to follow. The instructor will have to play a HUGE role in making it work. I took this class online and had zero instructor interaction. If you can avoid that do so!