Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset (Wiley Frontiers in Science)
Author: Aswath Damodaran
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ISBN: 0471133930
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (September, 1995)
Sales Rank: 11,905
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Given one choice, this is the valuation book to have.
Having an MBA and having worked in an investment bank, this is the best all around valuation book I've read. The most significant feature of this book is how the ideas are presented. The reader gathers new insights, and is exposed to the nuances of valuation technologies, which usually confuse even the practitioners. His website also contains several discussion points that supplement the well presented text. If you have to choose only one valuation book, this is it. This book rates highly not only because of the excellent coverage but more importantly how the examples and the ideas have been brilliantly crafted into a great learning experience. A great teacher surely shines in how he impart even the mundane ideas of basic valuation. Buy this book for the way he teaches, not only for the topics he discusses.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The best general guide on valuation available
An outstanding book from the high-priest of valuation. Covers all major techniques and applications. However, not all that suitable for beginners or as an introductory text since some of the (slightly advanced) material is presented in a fairly condensed manner. Readers with a little experience in the area or students who have taken at least one finance course and understand the fundamentals of financial economics should find this book extremely useful, though. Great as a reference guide, too.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Good work, if only it was reliable... In a discipline where accuracy is so important, I am amazed it has been selling so well for so long. The book has plenty of formulae mistakes that make its reading and comprehension really difficult and painfully time-consuming as you need to go through correcting all those errors and read the chapters again and again. Still, even after such an arduous work, you end up not being 100% sure that what you have learnt is correct. Wiley should long ago have retired this edition from circulation and then market a new, thoroughly corrected one. Of course, those (many) unlucky readers who have bought this terrible (paperback) edition should receive a new one for free as soon as it is available. I feel I have been cheated! Similar Products
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