For the introductory finance course—undergraduate corporate finance or financial management—required at all undergraduate business schools.
Get the picture and develop a fundamental understanding of finance.
Students often miss the big picture, viewing finance as a set of unrelated topics, tools, and techniques. In order to help students see the big picture, this text provides an introduction to financial decision-making that links the concepts to five key principles of finance.
Authors Arthur J. Keown, John D. Martin, and Sheridan Titman have incorporated significant revisions that weave currency, relevance, and real-world issues into the pages of this well-know finance text.
Sheridan Titman is a professor in the Department of Finance who holds the Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services. He is also the director of the Energy Management and Innovation Center at UT. Dr. Titman took his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include both investments and corporate finance.
Assigned textbook for introduction level financial management subject as part of an MBA.
I didn’t read cover to cover but consumed a good amount of this book which aligned to the course material.
I found it covered the concepts well, each chapter was well illuminated with real world examples and case studies, and it referenced back to fundamental financial concepts really well. Reasonably well structured it was easy to use a reference to refer back to different parts to review concepts when researching assignments.
I found myself referring to this book (rather than googling) a lot more than some other subjects/texts so from my perspective this makes it a great introductory reference on finance.