Synopsis
Are you new to finance? Looking for a brief introduction to get you up to speed before your first Finance course? Seeking intuition about financial concepts to advance your career? If jumping into the world of financial statements, risk adjustments, and cash flow models feels daunting, take heart. Finance People is the guide you need to orient you to the fundamental concepts and calculations in finance.
Distilled from decades of working with new finance learners, this book is designed to give new finance students and practitioners a firm footing in the foundational concepts of finance. With straightforward language and vocabulary definitions, practical easy-to-follow examples, and step-by-step exercises, Finance People demystifies key financial topics, such as:
• economic value creation,
• the opportunity cost of capital,
• financial analysis and modeling,
• cash flow and valuation, and
• financial leverage.
Whether you are preparing for your first undergraduate or MBA Finance course or investing in your own professional skills, with Finance People you will learn the concepts on which business decision-makers rely―and soon find yourself thinking like a finance person.
About the Author
MICHAEL J. SCHILL is the Sponsors Professor of Business Administration of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He has long taught the core finance curriculum to MBA students and appreciates engaging both those students who are eager to be in a finance classroom and those who are apprehensive about it. He teaches a finance elective designed for students with no interest in a career in finance. His research spans empirical questions in corporate finance, asset pricing, and international finance. He coauthored the case study book Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation. He has been on the faculty at Darden since 2001 and was previously with the University of California at Riverside, as well as a visiting professor at Cambridge and Melbourne. He is the author or coauthor of over 60 cases, technical notes, and simulations. Prior to his doctoral work, he was a management consultant with Marakon Associates in Stamford and London. He received a BS from Brigham Young University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of Washington. When he’s not thinking about what finance people think, he enjoys endless hikes, heart-pounding paddles, and perfect cups of fresh-pressed cider. He got a C in his first finance class.
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