Looks at security markets, taxes, bonds, stocks, options, real estate, and commodity futures, and explains how to read and analyze financial statements

How to Be an Informed Investor

Mayo, Herbert B.

Business & Money

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

Finance: An Introduction

Finance

Dryden Press

Providing an introduction to investments, this text covers topics such as security markets, risk and portfolio theory, the valuation of common stock, investing in fixed income securities, and constructing a diversified portfolio.

Investments: An Introduction

Investing

Providing an introduction to investments, this text covers topics such as security markets, risk and portfolio theory, the valuation of common stock, investing in fixed income securities, and constructing a diversified portfolio.

Harcourt College Pub.

Covering the same topics found in more advanced-level texts, Investments incorporates minimal math and is much more student-friendly, resulting in an increased excitement for and understanding of the basic investment course material. It is the text of choice for the College of Financial Planning. It includes a strong focus on the individual financial planner and features a "Financial Advisor's Investment Case" at the end of each chapter. These short cases illustrate how text material applies to real investment decisions. Financial calculators are introduced and utilized throughout the text with explanations employing both interest tables and the calculator. It is also ideal for non-majors courses.

South-Western College Pub.

A well-written, well-illustrated survey of the field of finance covering the three major components of the discipline: financial institutions, investments, and financial management. The text is designed for the beginning student with minimal or no background in finance or related topics. Relevant economic and accounting concepts are either reviewed or treated as if the student has no prior exposure. The text is paperback represents a great value as it is less expensive than competitors.

Financial Institutions, Investments and Management: An Introduction

Economics

The goal of this text is to introduce the business major and particularly the non-finance major to the broad field of finance rather than just corporate finance. Mayo's is one of the only books that attempts coverage of all three major areas of finance, while maintaining a level appropriate for introductory courses in both 2-year and 4-year schools. Since many students will have only this exposure to the subject, the text gives them a working knowledge of all aspects of introductory finance.

Financial Institutions, Investments And Management: An Introduction Study Guide

The basic theme is making investment decisions to achieve investment goals in an efficient market context. Assets are considered from an individual perspective and how they help manage risk and achieve the investor's goals. For example, coverage will include both the features and valuation of a single bond and how a variety of bonds may be combined in a portfolio that reduces, or at least manages, risk.

Basic Investments

A general introduction to the three primary aspects of Finance and examination of how they interrelate. The book discusses financial institutions and their roles in helping to allocate savings in the economy, along with a description and analysis of securities issued and traded in money and capital markets. The book covers fundamentals of investing in stocks, mutual funds, derivatives, and other marketable securities with an emphasis on securities markets, mechanics of trading, techniques of analysis, diversification, and valuation of assets. Finally, the book lays out the processes, decisions structures, and institutional arrangements concerned with the use and acquisition of funds by a firm. This will include the management of the asset and liability structure of the firm under certain and risky situations.

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How to Be an Informed Investor

Finance: An Introduction

Investments: An Introduction

Investments: An Introduction

Finance: An Introduction

Investments: An Introduction

Financial Institutions, Investments and Management: An Introduction

Financial Institutions, Investments And Management: An Introduction Study Guide

Basic Investments

Finance: An Introduction