The Real Options Solution: Finding Total Value in a High-Risk World
Author: F. Peter Boer
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ISBN: 0471209988
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (04 February, 2002)
Sales Rank: 87,492
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
The most practical book ever read on the subject!
I would like to congratulate Dr. Boer on his success with making "real options" real for the practitioners. I have read many, if not most, most of the books out there on this topic, and found none to be as accessible and fun to read as Dr. Boer's treatment of this subject.I have also bought his other book, The Valuation of Technology - Business and Financial Issues in R&D. Again, full of practical insights that are not available elsewhere.
I fail to understand the scathing review of the reader from Norway. Was this person expecting to learn about financial options, instead of real options, from this book? In that case, it was the reader's mistake for picking the wrong book! For real options, this book has no peer. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to apply the real options theory to real-world problems.
Thanks Dr. Boer for a job well done and for making a real contribution to realistic valuation and pricing of business opportunities.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Real Options: An Essential Component of Total Value
The Real Options Solution is a must read for anyone interested in the creation of value or wishing to understand or quantify the total value of a company. It clearly sets out why the value of any company must include the value of its business plans and the options that these afford, before going on to explain the more technical aspect of valuing such plans or options. F.P.Boer, in the first section of this book, successfully achieves a discussion of value and its components that will satisfy anyone wishing to understand how to perform a calculation of the value of a real option, detailing what data would be required, how to build this into a total value caluclation etc. Yet the use of only a limited number of diagrams and numerical examples makes this book accessible to all, not just those interested in a text book approach, without in any way compromising the content or quality of the material provided. In the second section several topics are discussed, with numerous examples both contemporary and from history, including 1) risk, it's upside as well as downside potential and the treatment of different types of risk in valuations, 2) intellectual capital, what is and how it could be valued and 3) innovation and why this is essential to future value creation, with all issues discussed adding an important dimension to this very practical guide to value.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Explicit Treatment of a New Analytical Framework
This book attempts to expose the reader in a nontechnical manner to the new technique of evaluating investments in the New Economy characterised by volatility and uncertainty.The author does so without resorting to mathematical methods.The book is basically expository and attempts to build upon the readers'familiarity with financial options.It concentrates in describing the real options which each business decision is confronted with and demonstrates the flexibility which managers face. He views these opportunities as options even the decision not to implement the plan. This is a creative approach to understanding what real options is all about. Similar Products
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