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Suggested Reading List
Key Resources for understanding finance career tracks
and what employers are looking:
The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to
Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking and Securities
Trading, Mariam Naficy
The Harvard Business School Guide to
Careers in Finance (2002), Ying
Liu (editor)
Vault Guides:
You can download these books for free (pdf
file) from the Vault Career Library:
http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=292
Downloadable Vault Guides Include:
- Vault Guide to Finance Interviews
- Vault Guide to the Top Finance
Firms
- Vault Guide to Investment Banking
Useful Resources:
- Analysis for Financial Management
,
Robert C. Higgins
Case in
Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation 2nd Edition,
by Marc P. Cosentino
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance,
by
Richard A. Brealey
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 3rd Edition,
by McKinsey & Company
Inc.
Analysis for Financial Management,
by Robert C. Higgins
Aswath Damodaran's web-site
–
Professor Damodaran has several books on valuation, if you are serious
about banking than it is strongly encouraged that you study his books
before your interviews.
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
If you're looking for stories about life
on Wall Street:
- Monkey Business:
Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle, John Rolfe and Peter Troob (topic: investment banking)
- Liar's Poker:
Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, Michael Lewis (topic: sales and trading)
- Barbarians at the
Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Bryan Burrough (topic: leveraged buyouts)
- Den of Thieves,
James Brewer Stewart (topic: insider trading)
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