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In-depth coverage of the issues. No academic jargon, just straightforward business approach--tells you what you want to know. Worth owning if this is your field.

An excellent guide for entrepreneurs who are considering IPO or Acquisition as an exit strategy. The interviews with entrepreneurs who have "been through it" are extremely helpful.

IPOs bring clear advantages to companies--notably, access to capital without having to make future interest payments! And IPOs also bring value to institutional investors in search of new ways to diversify their portfolios. But what advantages do IPOs bring to individual investors, who have only limited investment funds? Why should I, as an investor, buy into a company's IPO, rather than buying into a stock that has already been trading on the market? How can I tell the quality of a particular IPO offering? What brokerage houses are sources for IPO purchases? How do they compare? What about buying into IPOs through mutual funds--how does that differ from a direct IPO purchase? This book answers all these questions in plain English with plenty of solid, current detail.

As an Internet investor and financial professional, I found this book very interesting on a lot of levels. Especially interesting is the way CFOs value other companies and decide how to allocate budgets for projects. Definitely worth reading....

The book is a comprehensive analysis of Japanese foreign investments and Characteristics of the Japanese multinational companies, their behaviours, investment styles, performances, strategic managements and human resources management styles. The first chapter narrates the story of the Japanese foreign investments in recent years. The second chapter describes and analysed the global environments for Japanese multinational companies. and business regulations affecting multinational companies in a number of countries. The third chapter describes and analysed the domestic environments for Japanese multinational companies, product development strategies, financial system, manufacturing process and cross-cultural managements. The fourth chapter analysed the expansions of Japanese multinational companies across the world and their performances. The fifth chapter analysed the impacts of Japanese multinational companies on their host nations and on Japan itself regarding employments, investments, production and technology. The sixth chapter analysed the strategic management styles of Japanese multinational companies and in particular the behaviours of Nissan, Toyota and Honda motor corporations. The final chapter analysed the human resources managements and in particular Japanese management philosophy in three major Japanese multinational companies and how these companies are transmitting Japanese management styles in their foreign locations. Overall all materials used in this book are derived from several years of research and analysis. Most of the materials are not readily available as these are from Jaopanese sources. This will be an important source book for students and researchers on international business.

Having a few yrs in college but no degree in anything, let alone the stock market. i came to my new job having no idea what i was in for nor had i heard of the series 7. i spent a lot of time alone with the passtrack series, and successfuly passed the 7 the first time. i am still employed by a lg investment firm and use my license everyday. without this book, i doubt i could have done it. if you want to pass the first time. this is the book.

I gave Mr. Crouch 5 stars because it is obvious that he is not simply repeating the same old thing I can find in most other books relating to corporations and LLCs and their benefits. He walks you through most of the technical matters in a tutorial way, explaining the significance of different laws and what they say & don't say. He provides much food for thought that I found nowhere else. He is a breath of fresh air after reading extensively on these topics. This book should be on your shelf if you own, manage, or have a need to learn about LLCs.

A. David Silver has written many business books -- and most present his formulaic approach to evaluating (or starting) companies that have a proprietary advantage in the market place.

If you are going to start a company, or if you are going to invest in a company... you must get one of his books on this subject. This book provides a summary of that formula, and then applies that to stocks in existance at the time of its publication.

You couldn't ask for a better way to learn his method. About 1 year after I had read the book and talked about it to a friend, we went back and saw that his selections had done quite well.

Whether this is a great stock selection method remains to be objectively tested. But I believe his method of analyzing a company based on proprietary hold on a market... to be sound.

In general: buy anything by this author. I do.

John Dunbar

Mr. Schwartz makes many valid points and discusses a matter of great importance to any shareholder of stock. This is done through insightful examples and humorous anecdotes as well as descriptive anaysis. I highly recommended reading this book.

"Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value" is a well-organized, clearly written guide to effectively evaluating the multitude of strategic alternatives available to an organization within the strategic planning process. With the maximization of shareholder value as the end goal, author Trotta introduces the original concept of Step-Wise Approach to Value (SWAV) to help companies achieve that goal. SWAV involves the application of four filters (economic, strategic, operational and valuation) through which strategic alternatives can be analyzed. A number of specific analytical tools such as the Porter Model, the DuPont model, Regression Analysis and Discounted Cash Flow are discussed in detail. I found it helpful that Trotta addresses not only the benefits of each of these tools, but the risks and limitations as well. This book would be a useful resource for financial decision-makers, business owners,students and anyone seeking concrete advice on making better strategic planning decisions.