Synopses & Reviews
A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments.
This authoritative guide provides all the information that both the professional and individual investor will need to succeed in todays equity market, including:
The role that equities play in a company's capital structure and in a portfolio
Determining and optimizing a company's weighted average cost of capital
The role of preferred stock within a company's capital structure
The various types of preferred stock
How new stocks are issued
The top ten equity strategies
Alternative ways to obtain equity exposures
[box] The Investors Guidebook series presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers and the investors perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state of the art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, these succinct handbooks will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to these books repeatedly throughout their careers. [end box] A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments.
Synopsis
Now the best-selling book of its kind has gotten even better. This revised and expanded second edition of Ittelson's master work will give you that firm grasp of the numbers necessary for business success. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Financial Statements is a perfect introduction to financial accounting for non-financial managers, stock-market investors, undergraduate business and MBA students, lawyers, lenders, entrepreneurs, and more. Most introductory finance and accounting books fail either because they are written by accountants for accountants or the authors dumb down the concepts until they are virtually useless. Financial Statements deftly shows that all this accounting and financial-reporting stuff is not rocket science and that you can understand it Ittelson empowers non-financial managers by clearly and simply demonstrating how the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement work together to offer a snapshot of any company's financial health.
About the Author
Stuart Veale is the President and founder of the Investment Performance Institute, Inc., a firm that specializes in providing advanced level practical capital markets training and consulting services to the financial services industry. Previously he was a Senior Vice President of Portfolio Strategy and Design for the National Sales Group at Prudential Securities Inc. and Senior Vice President of Advanced Training at PaineWebber Inc. He has published 6 books including The Handbook of the US Capital Markets, Bond Yield Analysis, Tapping the Small Business Market, Essential Investment Math, Essential Asset Allocation, and Stocks, Bonds, Options, and Futures.