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Selection of Recommended Books

I do not rate these as ALL are highly recommended.

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General Corporate Finance

       
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Corporate Finance (Irwin/McGraw-Hill Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) by Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, 912 pages 5th edition (July 14, 1998) McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN: 0256246408  
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Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey, Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, 1093 pages 6th edition (April 15, 2000) McGraw Hill College Div; ISBN: 0072352361
 
 
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Finance for Executives
by Claude Viallet, Gabriel A. Hawawini, 608 pages 1st edition (July 28, 1998)
South-Western College Publishing; ISBN: 0538853956

 
 
 
 

Valuation

   
 
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 4th Edition (McKinsey & Company, Inc.) by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels, 4th edition (2005) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471702188  
Valuation WorkBook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Test to Help You Master Valuation by McKinsey & Co Inc., Tom Copeland, Tim Koller, Jack Murrin, William Foote, 272 pages 3 edition (September 29, 2000) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471397512
   
 
Investment Valuation : Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset (Wiley Frontiers in Finance) by Aswath Damodaran, 519 pages (September 1995) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471133930  
 
 
 

EVA and Value Based Management

The Toyota Way (Hardcover), by Jeffrey Liker (Author), McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 17, 2003); ISBN: 978-0071392310  
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: : Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change, by Louis Gerstner, Collins (December 16, 2003); ISBN: 0060523808
Eva and Value-Based Management: A Practical Guide to Implementation by S. David Young, Stephen F. O'Byrne, 493 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0071364390  
Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases 896 pages, 2nd edition (December 24, 1999) South-Western College Publishing; ISBN: 0324015658
   
 
The Balanced Scorecard : Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, 322 pages (September 1996) Harvard Business School Pr; ISBN: 0875846513  
Economics of Strategy, 2nd Edition by David Besanko (Editor), David Dranove (Editor), Mark Shanley (Editor), 656 pages 2 edition (July 6, 1999) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471254541
   
 

M&A

 
 
The Art of M&A: A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide by Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Reed Lajoux, 1011 pages 3rd edition (December 17, 1998) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0070526605  
Takeovers, Restructuring, & Corporate Governance by J. Fred Weston, Juan A. Siu, Brian A. Johnson, 689 pages 3nd edition (December 15, 2000) Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130265055
 
 
M&A : A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal (Wiley Frontiers in Finance) by Jeffrey C. Hooke, 352 pages 1 edition (October 7, 1996) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471144622  
Winning at Mergers and Acquisitions : The Guide to Market Focused Planning and Integration by Mark N. Clemente, David S. Greenspan, 331 pages 1 edition (March 9, 1998) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 047119056X
   
 

Venture Capital

Eboys : The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
by Randall E. Stross, 325 pages (May 23, 2000)
Crown Pub; ISBN: 0812930959
 
The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
by Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback, 192 pages (March 24, 2000)
Harvard Business School Pr; ISBN: 1578511402
   
 

Financial Distress and Workouts

   
 

The Vulture Investors, Revised and Updated, by Hilary Rosenberg, 416 pages (January 21, 2000) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471361895

 
The Six Month Fix, by Gary Sutton Wiley; 1st edition (November 15, 2001), ISBN: 0471036269
 
 
Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy : A Complete Guide to Predicting & Avoiding Distress and Profiting from Bankruptcy (Wiley Finance Edition) by Edward I. Altman, 356 pages 2nd edition (March 1993) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471552534  
Bankruptcy Investing : How to Profit from Distressed Companies by Ben Branch, Hugh Ray, 286 pages 2 edition (January 1999) Beard Group; ISBN: 1893122069
         
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups, by Stuart C. Gilson. 528 pages 1 edition (July 20, 2001), John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471405590  
Workouts & Turnarounds II : Global Restructuring Strategies for the Next Century : Insights from the Leading Authorities in the Field by Dominic Dinapoli (Editor), 480 pages (September 30, 1999) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471246360
   
 

Random Books on Finance

A Random Walk Down Wall Street Seventh Edition
by Burton Gordon Malkiel, 464 pages 7 edition (June 2000), W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393320405

 
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Disk
by John C. Hull, 698 pages 4th edition (January 15, 2000)
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130224448