Product Description

The Second Edition Update uses the most current information to cover all areas of finance focusing on the three main topic areas: markets and institutions, investments, and managerial finance. While the book's greatest emphasis is on corporate topics, the amount of detail has been carefully edited to allow room for coverage of issues that are of interest to students. Fresh data is used throughout as well as updated examples, figures, citations, and Web links to Web Exploration problems and Mini-Cases. The broad approach appeals to majors and non-majors alike by allowing students to better understand financial information for making business and personal finance decisions. Appropriate for any introductory finance course, Finance can be tailored to any desired level of topic depth using innovative Extensions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #942380 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 576 pages

About the Author
Stanley G. Eakins has notable experience as a financial practitioner, serving as vice president and comptroller at the First National Bank of Fairbanks and as a commercial and real estate loan officer.  A founder of Denali title and escrow agency, a title insurance company in Fairbanks, Alaska, he also ran the operations side of a bank and was the chief financial officer for a multi-million dollar construction and development company.  He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University.  Professor Eakins is Chair of the Department of Finance at East Carolina University.

Customer Reviews

An okay introduction
This book provides an okay introduction to Finance, but it leaves much to be desired. My chief complaint is that this book gives important basic finance formulas, but it does not explain the derivations of them well. Some general concepts are explained, but then poof a formula suddenly appears which a clever reader can probably figure out how to derive himself, but such a reader would then not really even need to be given the formula by the book in the first place. What makes a person educated in finance worth more than the the price of his or her financial calculator is that person's understanding of these formulas and how financial analysis is approached.

Otherwise this is not a bad book. Some financial theory is discussed, and this book explains the basics of financial markets and different forms of financial instruments, so the reader should be able to walk away from this book with at least a basic understanding of these topics. However, for those who wish to gain a solid understanding of this topics a more in depth book is needed.