Fundamentals of Credit and Credit Analysis: Corporate Credit Analysis

by Arnold Ziegel, Ronna Ziegel (Editor)

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank. The lessons learned from his experience in dealing with entrepreneurs, multinational corporations, highly leveraged companies, financial institutions, and structured finance, led to the development and delivery of numerous senior level credit risk training programs for major global financial institutions from 2002 through the present. This book was conceived and written as a result of the development of these courses and his experience as a corporate banker. It illustrates the fundamental issues of credit and credit analysis in a manner that tries to take away its mystery. The overriding theme of this book is that when an investor extends credit of any type, the goal is “to get your money back”, and with a return that is commensurate with the risk

Genres: Business, Banking, Finance

139 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2015

Reviews

[Mohamad Jaber · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of people complain that this book is poorly written. It might be, but If I wanted to read a book for its literary beauty I would have picked up flaubert not a finance book.

This book is a bit repetitive, but honestly it is better than much bigger more expensive books that I've read on the subject. I definitely recommend it to any one looking to start a career in corporate banking and credit.

[Daniel Giron · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fine—as someone who doesn't know anything about credit analysis I do feel I got something out of it. The writing was poor, specifically I feel there should've been less repeating and more clarity on what everything meant, especially in the early chapters where all the concepts were introduced since I did need to search some things up to understand them. Truly I feel indifferent to this book—it did its job but it was a difficult read.

[R · Rating 2 out of 5]

High level. Likely more valuable to those brand new to banking and credit. If you have had any real world exposure and have read books on the GFC previously this may bore you. Stream of consciousness writing style with a lot of repetitiveness. Chapters serve little use in dividing material and every other paragraph seems to start with a restated definition of credit analysis.

[Liliana Diaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction to fundamental credit analysis

Great introduction to fundamental credit analysis, would definitely recommend this book to junior credit analysts and the like. Thumbs up.

[Michael Janes · Rating 1 out of 5]

This a great example of how self-publishing can create a book with terrible spelling and grammatical mistakes.

While the info was alright, the author clearly does not care about the quality of the work his name is behind.

[Pawin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good introduction to the topic of credit analysis. The book covers all related topics, such as credit rating, debt rating, and risk assessment.

[Noor Kamal · Rating 4 out of 5]

gives solid foundation of credit analysis... repeats a lot of stuff though

[Ruben85 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5★

[Alan Ash · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to audiobook during work. Good examples from Enron and 08 financial crisis but a little repetitive

[Robert Baranowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical book on credit for absolute beginners.

Repeats simple concepts almost to the point of exhaustion.