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The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Advanced Topics in Finance and Accounting) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Jr. Donald H. Chew
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 797727
Media: Paperback
Pages: 780
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.8 x 1
ISBN: 0070110468
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.15
EAN: 9780070110465
Publication Date: March 1993
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This book is compromised of 55 articles written by the top researchers and theorists in finance. It is used both as a supplement and as a core textbook in Corporate Managerial Finance and Financial Theory. All but four of the 55 articles and roundtables in this edition were published previously in Bank of America's Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Don Chew serves as editor on this journal. Chew is meant to bridge the gap between financial theory and practice. This is the perfect packaging option for any of our Corporate Finance texts. A special price will be created for these packaging options.
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 Review from MBA / GE student July 22, 2005
J. Guentert
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is excellent reading. Foremost, it discusses clearly all of the major issues today in corporate finance - capital structure, "what investors want", incentives and performance measurement via Accounting versus Economic Value Added models, corporate architecture, etc. The author is extremely engaging, and I must admit, this is the first "text book" I've had that I wanted to keep reading. The author is sarcastic, opinionated, but objective all in one. An excellent purchase for a course or just if you're interested in understanding the way markets and corporate finance truly function.
Excellent summary of various aspects of corporate finance September 30, 1999
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excellent compilation of articles by top academicians in the field of corporate finance. The articles are ideal for a person who wants to get a good grasp of any area of Corporate Finance. Warning: This is definitely not for the beginners. It is ideal for practitioners who are interested in learning more.
practical as well as academic May 31, 2000
Jun Sato (Tokyo, Japan)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book challenges you about what you really understand on finance. Before I read this I didn't like finance at all because it seemed too simplified. This book shows how the real world and people think. Especially, its chapter on risk is of a great help. Now I'm interested in some fields of finance such as internal corporate governance, real option, more refined and practical concepts than EVA, etc.
 A good reference for motivated MBAs and practitioners May 15, 2000
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
As the title of the book clearly indicates, the text advances corporate finance beyond the theory presented in texts like Brealy and Myers. Thus, the text is geared towards a more sophisticated reading audience. In a collection of articles, academics and finance practitioners discuss the real world impact of capital budgeting, dividend/share repurchase policy, financial innovations (e.g. convertibles, commodity-linked bonds, derivatives, etc.), and bankruptcy on firms. Do not be scared off by the "academic" nature of this text. Unlike academic journals, the long-winded discussions on hypothesis testing and experimentation are abandoned (along with the high-level mathematics). The articles are very readable and any empirical evidence is presented in relatively friendly charts and graphs, which do a great job at providing the proper intuition. More importantly, the authors usually include real world anecdotal evidence to support the conclusions, as well.
Extremely useful and well written, if somewhat partisan work September 24, 1999
hayuanmu@hotmail.com (London)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This collection of articles from the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance is extremely well-presented and eschews a lot of the overly technical analyses and explanations that poulate other works. The concept of Economic Value Added or EVA is explained in quite practical terms as are the main corporate finance principals to which most readers will have been exposed through other texts.What is extremely useful is that the editors have brought in some top managers to discuss the implementation of EVA and EVA-related systems. While these have generally been success stories, it it these outsiders who address the limitations of the system, effectively strengthening its application. The Stern-Stewart team has the zeal of evangelists and while this approach may be off-putting to those who like their corporate finance rarefied and dry, it does hammer the main points home. The academics, including Michael Jensen, Stewart Myers, Fischer Black and one of the godfathers of modern corporate finance, Noble laureate Merton Miller, present overviews and long term evaluation of their own work in terms understandable to most laymen. While not presenting any original work, as a collection this is definitely a worthwhile addition to any corporate finance student or practitioner. Any corporate manager interested in a system that reconciles incentives and rewards should also give this book a read.
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