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Cambridge Short Introductions to Management
Short Introduction to Corporate Finance
The Short Introduction to Corporate Finance provides an accessibly written guide to contemporary financial institutional practice. Rau deploys both his professional expertise and experience of teaching MBA and graduate-level courses to produce a lively discussion of the key concepts of finance, liberally illustrated with real-world examples. Built around six essential paradigms, he builds an integrated framework covering all the major ideas in finance over the past half-century. Ideal for students and practitioners alike, it will become core reading for anyone aspiring to become an effective manager.
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194 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2015
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January 4, 2020
Corporate finance is a pretty dense subject, definitely for non-finance folks. Despite having studied it over years through various courses and exposure in the jobs, I continue to be mystified by it (to put it very mildly!). So, I was quite anxious when we had a course on #CorporateFinance as part of my #EFPM coursework. However, Prof Raghavendra Rau not only created a great environment for learning, but for the first time I actually managed to #learn something :). His book is a great starting point for anyone seeking clarity on this subject in some plain English (read not-too-complex-formulae!).
My biggest learning from his sessions was the way he constantly reminded us of the first principle of finance - the no-arbitrage principle, or in layman's terms, there is no such thing as a free lunch. We are constantly bombarded by people claiming to make us rich overnight by investing in some shady schemes, it makes a lot of sense to remember that such claims are perhaps too good to be true, and hence best ignored! I especially liked the way he distils down entire field in six fundamental ideas and then builds the entire theory around them. I highly recommend the book too.
My biggest learning from his sessions was the way he constantly reminded us of the first principle of finance - the no-arbitrage principle, or in layman's terms, there is no such thing as a free lunch. We are constantly bombarded by people claiming to make us rich overnight by investing in some shady schemes, it makes a lot of sense to remember that such claims are perhaps too good to be true, and hence best ignored! I especially liked the way he distils down entire field in six fundamental ideas and then builds the entire theory around them. I highly recommend the book too.
August 18, 2025
An easy introduction to corporate finance with some humor to make it more easily readable
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