Essentials of Investments with S&P card (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
by david on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 | 3 Comments
Essentials of Investments with S&P card (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments, 8e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the
Poor Trial to explain investment strategies to students,
The book written in investment lingo, is by far the most hideous attempt I have ever seen reading a finance textbook. The explanations lack clarity and simplicity. If this is an intro for students to get excited about investment, it should be taken into consideration to revise the edition and make it much more user friendly. Everyone is able to follow simple formulas in excel, however it would also help to explain what the outcome is going to tell and why. Statistics like the standard deviation, the co-efficient, variance, as well as the co-efficient variation are explained in a very confusing way and the attempt to make up for it by using long formulas are not helping to make it any easier to understand the material. It takes hours to read through one chapter alone – the fun of investing is certainly numbed using this textbook for finance classes.
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|Prompt delivery but sometimes hard to understand while studying each chapter,
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This book contains so much details but sometimes it is hard to understand these concepts because they contain run- on sentences which is confusing. It takes more than 10 minutes for me to understand what the authors are trying to say. These professors are experts on their subject, but please write it more concisely and in lay men's terms. I guess this a complaint for publishers and authors who wrote the textbook.
I am glad that I bought the loose leaf format because I can bring whatever chapters I need to bring on campus, or take notes on lectures.
At this age, it is still hard to write on an iPad or tablet because it is not efficient to write down on a screen. If interfaces are needed to improve then this would work slowly in the digital age.
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|Not what I ordered,
I received the international version instead of the regular version–luckily there were no MAJOR differences in the text.
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