Value

The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance

By: Tim Koller, McKinsey & Company Inc., Bill Huyett, Richard Dobbs

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

An accessible guide to the essential issues of corporate finance.

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Value explores the core of corporate finance without getting bogged down in numbers and is intended to give managers an accessible guide to both the foundations and applications of corporate finance. Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art.

This book:

• Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance
• Effectively applies the theory of value creation to our economy
• Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management
• Addresses how to ensure your company has the right governance, performance measurement, and internal discussions to encourage value-creating decisions

A perfect companion to the Fifth Edition of Valuation, this book will put the various issues associated with corporate finance in perspective.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2011 McKinsey & Company (P)2012 Gildan Media

You get two VALUES from this book

I would definitely recommend this book. For two reasons:

1. For a person like me, who studied corporate finance 20 years ago it's a good, concise and comprehensive summary of current state of knowledge on the subject, with up-to-date illustrations and examples. If you follow McK, their website and are subscribed to their mailing lists, you could accumulate knowledge as presented in this book from those bits, but it's really convenient to have it all in one place.

2. This book is my definite #1 in terms of the ability to put me to sleep - it even beats my hitherto #1, "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud (which I read in paper, so might not be directly comparable) - the latter held this title for 30 years, so it's a proper achievement to beat it.

So in fact you get a really good book on corporate finance and an extremely effective sleeping aid :-))).