Principles of corporate finance
by Richard A. Brealey, Richard Brealey, David Brealey, Brealey Richard, Stewart C Myers, Franklin Allen, BREALEY, Pitabas Mohanty, Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers and Franklin Allen · first published 1981
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Standard textbook covering both the investment decision of what a company should do and the financing decision of where to get the money; often cited as the go-to reference for corporate finance fundamentals.
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…2. Look up your favorite public companies 10-Q. For me: Google's 10-Q filing => http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125072... 3. Get a book like Brealey, R., and S. C. Myers. Principles of Corporate Finance. 7th ed. Irvin McGraw-Hill. 4. Using 10-Q, book, and google, go through each line of the financial statement to figure out what it means. 5. For some insight and wisdom, look at Warren Buffet's letters…
on “Ask HN: Good finance books?” ↗Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John Hull Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives by Satyajit Das
on “Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?” ↗…with an interest in the subject, regardless of their educational background. Arrighi, Giovanni (1994) The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times Brealey, Myers, Allen (2011) Principles of Corporate Finance, 10th ed. Bruck, Connie (1988) Predators' Ball: Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and Rise of Junk Bond Raiders Fisher, Philip (2003) Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings, 2nd ed. Fridson,…
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?” ↗If you are going to go that route, I'd point to Brealey and Myers "Principles of Corporate Finance".
on “Good books for hackers interested in quant finance?” ↗…'Venture Deals' if you want to get an easy to digest "anatomy of a venture deal" book. If you want something more geeky on the finance side, you'd be hard-pressed to overlook the Allen & Brealey bible 'Principles of Corporate Finance.'
on “The Need to Read” ↗If you want to learn the fundamentals of accounting, the best intro I've seen is "Frank Wood's Business Accounting Volume 1". For analysing companies, start with "Principles of Corporate Finance" which covers both the investment question (what the company should do) and the financing question (where to get the money to do those things). For more on analysing companies, check out study resources…
on “Accounting for Tech Entrepreneurs” ↗Currently have a plan to start with "Principles of Corporate Finance" (by Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers), followed by "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" (by Hull). Then perhaps "Security Analysis" (by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd). These seem to be of quite…
on “Ask HN: Best ways/resources to learn finance (self-study)” ↗…previous test years (or for obsolete tests) may also reveal texts that may be cheaper now or available as used copies. You could probably get something like Price Theory and Applications (Landsburg) or Principles of Corporate Finance (Brealey, Myers, Allen) for cheap. [0] http://beanactuary.org/exams/preliminary/?fa=preliminary-com... [1] https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-p-detail.asp... [2] https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-fm-detail.as... [3]…
on “Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?” ↗"Finance Theory" from Prof. Andrew Lo (MIT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHlfiOAJyE&list=PLUl4u3cNGP... He used "Principles of Corporate Finance" by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen as the text book. I bought it from Google Play. For accounting, I use Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-financial-accounting…
on “Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?” ↗…the topic: > Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was featured in the Financial Times list of Business Books of the Year for 2020, and he is a co-author of “Principles of Corporate Finance” (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen) for the 14th edition to be published in April 2022. He was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. * https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/192 It may be…
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