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This easy-to-understand, user-friendly reference tool covers the three major decision-making areas in financial management: "the investment, financing, and asset management decisions." It enables readers to understand the financial decision-making process, interpret the impact that financial decisions will have on value creation, and develop a strong understanding of how funds are raised and allocated by today's businesses. Financial exploration includes the basic time value of money concepts, working capital management, capital budgeting techniques, estimating cash flows, electronic commerce, outsourcing, limited liability companies, strategic alliances, and financial statement analysis. For participants in management development programs, candidates preparing for various professional exams, and practicing finance professionals--such as Financial and Loan Analysts; Financial, Cash, and Credit Managers; Controllers, Managerial Accountants; Lending Officers, and Treasures.

" Damodaran is a well-informed scholar with a gift for organized, clearly written syntheses of complex topics in modern finance. With Investment Philosophies he provides the uncensored facts about winning in the market place. If you are a fund manager, an investor, or simply a student of finance, you will want to read this book." – Tom Copeland Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Monitor Group " Professor Damodaran has zeroed in on the most important missing element of ma investment management processes: a clearly defined investment philosophy which can serve as a beacon in difficult markets. He offers a cornucopia of philosophies and strategies that have worked for many of the most successful investors, and which have stood the test of time." – Rob Arnott Chairman, First Quadrant, LP; Editor, Financial Analysts Journal " As an investor, I always have to look back to my philosophy and strategy for taking risk and making money. This book is an invaluable aid for ‘ taking stock’ before buying stock. It lays out the concepts and tools for understanding the basics of risk and return in the stock market, and presents a framework for any investor to construct his or her own investment philosophy." – Mitch Julis Managing Partner, Canyon Capital Advisors Choosing an investment philosophy is the heart of successful investing. To make the choice, though, you need to look within before you look outside. In Investment Philosophies: Successful Strategies and the Investors Who Made Them Work, Aswath Damodaran will help you do this by going beyond the simple explanations of traditional and alternative investmentstrategies, to discuss the individual underlying philosophies that support these techniques.