Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management
by Arthur J. Keown (Editor), John D. Martin, J. William Petty, David F. Scott.
Presents a both the tools and techniques of finance and a conceptual framework for understanding financial decision making. Focuses
on the big picture, and offers helpful features, including a CD-ROM packed with tools to help readers develop a cohesive
and interrelated mental map of the material.
Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest in Private Equity
by Gerald A. Benjamin, Joel Margulis.
Angel investors tell their stories in their own words. The reader learns in depth about the forces that
create this investment opportunity in high-risk investing. The reader journeys through the investors'
hedging strategies, risk assessments, syndication orientation, financial return expectations, deal
structuring preferences, monitoring investments, harvesting returns, and realistic exit strategies.
Entrepreneur Magazine Guide to Raising Money
by Entrepreneur Magazine.
The "small business authority" shows new and would-be entrepreneurs how to find money to
grow their businesses. The book describes the pros and cons of a wide variety of funding sources,
including banks, SBA offices, venture capitalists, online sources, and even some quirky
nontraditional sources of capital.
Personal Finance for Dummies (2nd Ed)
by Eric Tyson.
offers sound and practical advice for those
who want to get control over their personal financial lives. Author Eric
Tyson points out the most common mistakes that we all make in our
approach to money and prescribes ways to save and invest for a secure
future. Using worksheets, the book helps you to measure your own financial
health by looking at factors such as how much debt you carry, your savings
rate, as well as investment and insurance checkups.
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
by Tom Copeland, Tim Koller, Jack Murrin.
Part of the Wiley Frontiers in Finance series. Illustrates how to take
advantage of the American tradition of maximizing shareholder value,
demonstrates how value-based management contributes to improved
strategic thinking, and shows how managers at any level can create value
for their companies.
Financial Modeling
by Simon Benninga, Benjamin Czaczkes.
Bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing a
nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with
spreadsheets. Benninga takes the reader step by step through each
model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. In this sense,
this is a finance "cookbook," providing recipes with lists of ingredients and
instructions.
