The Wall Street MBA : your personal crash course in corporate finance / Reuben Advani.

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Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Accounting
  • ch. 1. Accounting basics
  • Double entry accounting
  • Cash versus accrual accounting
  • Creative accounting
  • GAAP
  • Tax versus book accounting
  • Introduction to financial statements
  • ch. 2. Balance sheet
  • Assets
  • Liabilities
  • Owner's equity
  • Sample balance sheet
  • Balance sheet games
  • ch. 3. Income statement
  • Income statement components
  • EBITDA, EBIT, EBT
  • Revenue recognition
  • Inventory and cost of goods sold
  • Depreciation
  • Earnings release
  • ch. 4. Cash flow statement
  • Cash flow
  • Sample cash flow
  • Why cash flows?
  • Managing cash flows
  • ch. 5. Fraud and manipulation
  • Types of fraud
  • Enron
  • Profit smoothing
  • Detecting fraud
  • Pro forma financials
  • ch. 6. Financial analysis
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Trend analysis
  • Ratio analysis
  • EVA
  • pt. 2. Finance
  • ch. 7. Cost of capital
  • Cost of equity
  • Weighted-average cost of capital
  • ch. 8. Valuation
  • Valuation basics
  • Methods of valuation
  • Net present value
  • ch. 9. Wall Street basics : stocks and bonds
  • Bonds
  • Stocks
  • ch. 10. Wall Street part deux : arbitrage, derivatives, and hedge funds
  • Arbitrage
  • Derivatives
  • Forwards
  • Futures
  • Orange County
  • Hedge funds
  • ch. 11. Mergers and acquisitions
  • History of M & A
  • Types of mergers
  • Why merge?
  • Valuation
  • Defenses
  • Merger obstacles
  • Mergers gone wild
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A : Case study
  • Car-E-Oki Inc.
  • Appendix B : Sample problems
  • Appendix C : Summary formulas
  • Glossary
  • Recommended readings
  • Index.