Finance (Barron’s Business Review Series) Review
I used this book solely to study for the DSST Finance exam. Be forewarned if you are taking this test: it is VERY DIFFICULT. This book was sufficient for me to obtain an A grade of 61 (minimum passing score is 46). I would recommend the Barron’s book, but you might want to supplement with other materials. All in all, this should be enough if you study hard and understand the concepts.
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Finance (Barron’s Business Review Series) Overview
Books in Barron’s “Business Review Series” are intended mainly for classroom use. They make excellent supplements to main texts when included in college-level business courses. In adult education and business brush-up programs they can serve as main textbooks. All titles in this series include review questions with answers. This expanded, updated text explains plotting and understanding economic graphs, market equilibrium and the nature of the price system, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and the dynamics of international trade.
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Customer Reviews
Not as good as other Barron’s books – The iDiOT – Washington DC
This book is fine, I use it and find it relatively helpful, though I’m not as enthusiastic as other reviewers. The reason I like this Barron series is that only pertinent information is given. This is in nice contrast to textbooks that often are quite verbose and make difficult subjects even more difficult. This book continues with this philosophy but in my mind perhaps goes overboard.
Here are the reasons I don’t feel particularly excited about this product:
1. The problems at the end of each chapter are perhaps too simplistic to really be helpful in test preparation.
2. Some of the chapters are too vague. For instance the valuation chapter is quite short and gives very few examples about how to value bonds or equity.
3. There is not even one word of mention about how to use spreadsheets or financial calculators. It is actually a little annoying to me how often they refer to the FV and PV tables as if they were some kind of ultra-convenient high tech tool.
While this book is not terrible by any means, I feel it is outdated and not on par with other Barron’s books I’ve used. I would hesitantly recommend it, because I think there is a lot of room for improvement.
Reasonable – R. Delrosario –
Reasonable value for price. Decent overview of finance topics. However, lots of typos and other mistakes if you read closely and repetitive in some respects, which lessens the effectiveness of the presentation of material somewhat.
Barron`s Finance book rating – Mohammed Boucanna – Chicago, IL
It is an interesting book for a beginner..It just needs to provide enough elaboration of the material and enough examples for that matter though!
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Not the right book for me! – Jeremy Callaway – Austin
I bought this book because I am a freshman in college and am very interested in finance. On the cover of the book it says a “great self teaching book,” so I bought it. It is completely the opposite! I read the first 100 pages and did not understand any of it. This book is for people who are already in the business world and just need to freshin’ up. Do not buy this book if you do not know anything about finance. Like I said, just not the right book for me.
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