Investment Banking for dummies 2nd

Part 1: Getting Started with Investment Banking. 5

CHAPTER 1: Introducing Investment Banking. 7

CHAPTER 2: The Purpose of Investment Banking: What Investment

Bankers Do. 23

CHAPTER 3: How Investment Bankers Sell Companies. 43

CHAPTER 4: How Investment Banking Is Used in Mergers and Acquisitions. 61

CHAPTER 5: How Investment Banking Is Used in Leveraged Buyouts . 81

Part 2: Digging In: Performing Investment Banking. 95

CHAPTER 6: Finding the Data: Documents and Reports . 97

CHAPTER 7: Making Sense of Financial Statements. 115

CHAPTER 8: Perfecting the Financial Ratios for Investment Banking . 135

CHAPTER 9: Sizing Up the Industry . 153

CHAPTER 10: Understanding Stocks and Focusing on Past Transactions. 171

CHAPTER 11: Applying Investment Banking to Fixed Income. 185

Part 3: Taking Investment Banking to the Next Level. 205

CHAPTER 12: Doing a Discounted Free Cash Flow Analysis. 207

CHAPTER 13: Structuring a Leveraged Buyout. 227

CHAPTER 14: Determining the Strength of a Company’s Return on Equity. 243

Part 4: Applying Investment Banking. 259

CHAPTER 15: Knowing the Rules . 261

CHAPTER 16: How Some Companies Lie, Cheat, and Steal Their Way to the Top. 277

CHAPTER 17: Understanding Alternative Investments and Asset Management. 297

CHAPTER 18: Trying Your Hand at Investment Banking with a Case Study . 315

Part 5: The Part of Tens. 327

CHAPTER 19: Ten of the Biggest Debacles in Investment Banking History. 329

CHAPTER 20: Ten Ways to Improve a Discounted Cash Flow Analysis . 339

CHAPTER 21: Ten (Or So) of the Best Online Resources for Investment

Bankers. 349

Appendix: Where Investment Banking Came From. 355

Index. 361