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Rating: 5
Easy-to-read, Engaging, Concise, Conservative, Best Possible

This is possibly the best intro-intermediate corporate finance book in the market today.

The competition to this book, would be Brealey and Myers (but is dry, wordy, too informal, confusing, not super organized, and prob. written to be a money vaccum for the authors).

This book really has value added to it (for instance, the layout and gold fonts make reading the book more a pleasure and hobby than a hell-chore).

The tone is really engaging, professional, formal, and just keeps you awake (relatively to other textbooks like the Brealey and Myers).

I'm a undergrad student at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, and I have used both this book and another book by the same authors called the fundamentals of corporate finance, and it's great. I have also used the Brealey and Myers prin. of corporate finance - and its a real hunk of junk.

Rating: 4
Excellent Guide

As part of the process of learning Corporate Finance, I found the guide to be extremely useful in solving problems and applying the theory to the practical stuff. In general, Ross et al deliver an easily understandable book but the best is how he takes most of the concepts at a much deeper level that you can find in many specialized books (actually many of those specialized books refer back to Ross!!!!)

Rating: 5
Excellent Introduction to Finance, and a Good Reference

First off, I never had any particular interest in the area of Finance. I simply purchased this book as a required text for the core finance course in my MBA program. All in all, I was very pleasantly surprised. The course was very informative, with a top-notch professor leading us through the material. But even more than the lectures, this book was my primary resource for guiding me through the principles of Corporate Finance. Ross does a great job of clearly explaining each topic, then supporting his explanation with effective examples.

Even though the book is well written, I can't deny that it was still challenging for a finance novice, such as myself. But Ross's clean, to-the-point style was a refreshing way for me to approach a previously unknown topic.

Of all my textbooks, I typically keep about half of them as references, and sell the rest. This book is definitely a keeper.