<p>What are very,very good introductory finance books that you could self study from?</p>
<p>Yes, I was wondering the same about investment banking; Im looking for books that explain the field to someone who doesn't know much about the financial world.</p>
<p>series 7 study books</p>
<p>Vault's guides have in-depth info about the field. You can buy them for a decent price and learn a lot from them.</p>
<p>If you actually want to learn the finance and accounting that they teach you in college (i.e. if you don't have a business curriculum at school), you can get the Barron's Business Review series (or something like that). They're not for preparing for standardized tests. They're more like super affordable books that are good for self-study in the topic. If you can afford it, however, I guess college level textbooks are the way to go, but I don't recommend them.</p>
<p>"series 7 study books"...wow don't be a tool. </p>
<p>I'd recommend "Corporate Finance 7/e" by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe...
(<a href="http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072829206/information_center_view0/%5B/url%5D">http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072829206/information_center_view0/</a>)</p>
<p>The vault guide to finance interviews is good for preparing for finance questions during interviews such like DCF,etc.</p>
<p>Fundamentals of Corporate Finance - Ross</p>
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<p>For personal finance and entertainment purposes you could always read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.</p>
<p>Are you an idiot? How am i tool for suggesting something that covers several facets of finance. </p>
<p>And rich dad poor dad is a motivational book and nothing more</p>
<p>Rich Dad teaches some viable techniques for financial knowledge.... and I made no claims to it being anything special... thus the reason I said, "entertainment purposes."</p>
<p>Please don't take things out of context. thanks</p>
<p>how did i take things out of context?</p>
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<p>just doing some "all or nothing" thinking... this is always the best way to ignore context.</p>
<p>Rich Dad Poor Dad is no where near a comprehensive finance book with all the formulas and analyzing concepts involved in a full breadth finance curriculum... but it does point to principles involved in smart personal finance... things like buy assets and let them work for you, avoid paying a lot of interest, and how to use some specific tools (leveraging real estate) for doing that.... etc.. so to eliminate it all together as just a "motivational" book is ignoring context and throwing it into a black/white category, IMO.</p>
<p>i agree it does point at principles, i dont want people to not read the book at it is entertaining as you stated before. I said that more so to alert readers to the writers intention for the book, because if you look at the authors background and his other books, he is a motivational speaker as well as a writer. He makes people pay thousands for his personal workshops etc.</p>
<p>if you actually took the time to look up robert kiyosaki (the author of rich dad, poor dad) you'll realize that the only reason he's rich is because he wrote motivational books. That being said, i do agree with some of the things that he says in his book but many people take his advice too much to heart and think they can be rich by just buying real estate. It's much harder than it sounds.</p>
<p>hobo, I agree, his advice is not for everyone, and to me it's just entertainment.... and a little reminding about some basic principles (i.e. buy low, sell high)...but nothing more. I know who Robert Kiyosaki is, he's like Anthony Robbins, Carlton Sheets, John Cummutta, etc. who write a book or more, put it on tapes, then travel the country/world doing motivational seminars just to sell their books.... not getting rich off of the stuff they say in the books, but off the seminars and book sales.</p>
<p>Google "finance". There's a billion sites that have info.</p>
<p>A very good book is “Basic Finance: An Introduction to Financial Institutions, Investments & Management” by Herbert B. Mayo. It covers not only financial institutions and investments, but corporate finance and financial formulas, as well.</p>
<p>While it is a textbook, it is written and organized in such a fashion that novices like myself would be very comfortable utilizing it as both a self-study and a reference source. It is not easy to find so but I was able to order it through Alibris.com.</p>