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Excellent book for children. If you truly want to give your children or grand children a gift that teaches them the value of investing and honing their entrepreneur skills, then this is the book. Not only do your children receive a book, they also are introduced to an interactive website where they can share ideas with other children and create and track their investment portfolios.

After the Enron meltdown, risk management is as hot as fire. You can't pick up the newspaper without stories about all the risks facing businesses and investors.

I run a medium size business in a big city. If you want to "de-risk" a company, you need to learn from managers who are already doing it and doing it well. This book has very detailed cases about the risk management programs at companies like Microsoft and DuPont with managers telling their own stories. The book is short on fancy theories and long on practical ideas.

I admit I was surprised to see Chase bank among these elite companies. Chase wrote off $500 million because of Enron. But you have to wonder how much more they would have written off without a good risk management program. No one ever said these systems are perfect. The Chase chapter even describes two big problems the bank had with their bookkeeping and how they were fixing them.

This book has everything you need to get started in a good risk management program. Lord knows businesses had better manage their risks or they're history.

This book is a treasure of information for those of us who are trying to become more informed and in charge of our own financial future. It gives insight into the insurance, securities and financial professions. Mr. Odishelidze is not trying to sell anything except common sense and a philosophy which has worked for him.

I also found his new book, Maximize Your Inheritance for Widows, Widowers, and Heirs. Am currently reading this.

Collaboratively written by Joel Siegel (Professor of Accounting and Finance, Queen's College, City University of New York), and Jae Shim (Professor of Accounting, California State University, Long Beach), The Manger's Handbook To Preparing And Using Financial Reports is a solidly written and accessibly organized guide to preparing sensitive and crucial financial information in a swift, professional, and practical manner. From valuation reports, to reporting on salespeople, to budgeting, forecasting, analyzing the rate of return, and more, The Manger's Handbook To Preparing And Using Financial Reports offers straightforward "how-to" advice for constructing, organizing, and improving a wide variety of corporate finance-related reports. The Manger's Handbook To Preparing And Using Financial Reports is a very highly recommended instructional and reference guide for managers of businesses both large and small.

I like it alot it has all te information about the managerial finance

As a CEO I think this is the first real description of how the manager at the top realy thinks about his job. It should help any student analysist or anybody involved in corporate finance feel right at home.

Though the book is quite pricey, it delivers a wealth of information regarding various treatments of risk and return. This is not the stuff you find in most financial texts, such as outdated modern portfolio theory. In fact, the material is far beyond the old risk/return traditions of yore. Various authors each contribute a chapter including Sortino so one gets a wide range of views (I only found a few chapters irrelevant to my needs). However, the common theme throughout is, "It is high time to view risk/return in a more meaningful and practical light."

This text is not just for portfolio managers. Anyone involved in risk/return assessment will benefit from the material; though much of the book is intended for those with a mathematical slant. The material can easily be applied to discounted cash flow (DCF) financial modeling though this is not discussed in the text. In my opinion, it blows away VAR, Real Options, etc.

If you ever thought T-Bills were riskless assts, you need to read this book or be forever wrong. I also found a wealth of information on Sortino's website that complimented the text. Lastly, each chapter is chocked full of nice reference articles for those desiring to delve deeper into the multitude of ideas presented.

I have not read this edition but I have several earlier editions and will soon have this one. Their books are always state of the art and a must read for institutional risk managers. The text provides numerous comprehensible detailed examples of managing risk at modern financial institutions. Market coverage is also excellent. This one is for anyone who actually has to manage risk. It is not however an intro book for the novice who is looking only for general information.

When this book was first published in 1991 it presented a viable approach to getting IT under control. The 1995 second edition contained refinements and was even more valuable because it came out in the aftermath of the industry-wide movement to decentralize, which only reinforced the central theme of the book: IT needs to be managed centrally. Although this book is as valid today as it was when first published, others with a fresher approach have been published in the ensuing 7 years since the second edition. However, this book is still invaluable as a secondary text for a number of reasons:

(1) It is focused on business control of IT, and centralized control at that. This message needs to be reinforced, in my opinion, and the book provides compelling reasons for doing so.
(2) Chapter 3's discussion of the IT director's job is really an examination of politics and challenges that still doggedly remain in IT in spite of being exposed year after year. The case studies in this chapter alone make this book worth buying and reading. Chapter 4, The Culture Gap, is also invaluable and shows that after 7 years since this edition came out that we're still grappling with the same old issues.
(3) The book's anecdotes, case studies and pull-no-punches comments about pitfalls and challenges are sanity checks that should be revisited by pulling this book from your shelf, dusting it off and turning to a random page - you are sure to spot a phrase or illustration that will influence you. Think of it as high-tech I Ching.

If you want a more up-to-date text on managing IT methodically and quantitatively I recommend anything written by Dan Remenyi. However, if you want deep insights and a book from which you can find inspiration or ideas by turning to a random page, this will serve you long after the more technical tomes have lost their appeal.