18 books like Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
Short-Term Financial Management
Essential tools and guidance for effective nonprofit financial managementFinancial Management for Nonprofit Organizations provides students, professionals, and board members with a comprehensive reference for the field. Identifying key objectives and exploring current practices, this book offers practical guidance on all major aspects of nonprofit financial management. As nonprofit organizations…
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Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
From analyzing potential properties to effectively managing your listings, this book is your one-stop resource for making a profit with short-term rentals!Airbnb, Vrbo, and other listing services have become massively popular in recent years—why not tap into the gold mine? Whether you’re new to real estate investing or you want to add a new strategy to your growing portfolio, vacation rentals can…
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Maximum Trading Gains With Anchored VWAP
Maximum Trading Gains with the Anchored VWAP results from decades of research and application by the author. It builds on Shannon's foundational book, Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes.
Author Brian Shannon, CMT, explains how to use the Anchored VWAP (AVWAP) to make better entries and exits, to time breakouts and breakdowns, and to set stop losses. Both new and experienced traders and…
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Suze Orman's Action Plan
Times have changed and the rules have changed, but financial security is still the goal. Do you know how to get there?There is a new reality out there--a new normal. What was once certain--that you would be able to retire comfortably, that you would pay for your kids' education, that your home would appreciate in value--is no longer a sure thing. So much has changed on the financial landscape…
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Profit First For Lawyers
This Book Will Make Your Law Firm More ProfitableBy following the simple advice in this book, one day not long from now, you will wake up to find you are taking more profits from your law firm:•Without spending more money on marketing.•Without hiring more staff.•Without increasing overhead.Notice the absence of "hedge" words. Following just about any of the advice in this book will make your law…
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Introduction to Fixed-Income Analysis and Portfolio Management
A concise but comprehensive introduction to fixed income analysis for undergraduate and graduate students.Offering more concise and less technical coverage of the material featured in the classic text Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, this streamlined book is rightsized for a one-semester fixed-income course. In accessible terms, Frank Fabozzi describes the sectors of the fixed-income…
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A Systems Perspective On Financial Systems
This book is devoted to a systems-theoretical presentation of the main results of applying the systemic yoyo model and relevant analytical tools to the topics of money and financial institutions. The author presents the main concepts and results of the subject matter in the language of systems science, which has in the past century prompted revolut
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Market Wizards
The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success! How do the world's most successful traders amass tens, hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Are they masters of an occult knowledge, lucky winners in a random market lottery, natural-born virtuosi—Mozarts of the markets? In search of an answer, bestselling author Jack D. Schwager interviewed dozens of top traders…
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The Little Book of Valuation
"An accessible, and intuitive, guide to stock valuation. Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. In The Little Book of Valuation, expert Aswath Damodaran explains the techniques in language that any investors can understand, so you can make better investment decisions when reviewing stock research reports and engaging in independent…
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Basic Mathematics for Economists
Economics students will welcome the new edition of this excellent textbook. Mathematics is an integral part of economics and understanding basic concepts is vital. Given that many students come into economics courses without having studied mathematics for a number of years this clearly written book will help to develop quantitative skills in even the least numerate student up to the required…
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Financial statement analysis
Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." -Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School "Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone…
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Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
The second edition includes over 25 percent new and updated information including: New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses Updated information that reflects the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes over the past…
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road
"What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation? If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture capital, including famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, where lawyer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-VC Scott…
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Exchange-traded funds for dummies
It seems like every week Wall Street comes up with some new, exotic investment idea that puts your money at risk. Thankfully, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are less volatile than individual stocks, cheaper than most mutual funds, and subject to minimal taxation. But how do you use this wonderful product to diversify your investments in today's fast-growing and ever-changing market? …
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Practical Portfolio Performance Measurement and Attribution
Practical Performance Measurement and Attribution provides a clear introduction to the subject of performance measurement. Focusing more on the practical use and calculation of performance returns rather than the academic background it will help readers gain a clear understanding of the role and implications of performance measurement in today's financial environment. "Carl's book is a 'must…
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Fundraising for social change
Since it was first published in 1988, Fundraising for Social Change has become one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the United States . Fundraising practitioners and activists rely on it for hands-on, specific, and accessible fundraising techniques, and it has become a required text in dozens of college courses around the country. This fifth edition offers the information that has…
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Natural Computing in Computational Finance
This book follows on from Natural Computing in Computational Finance  Volumes I, II and III.   As in the previous volumes of this series, the  book consists of a series of  chapters each of which was selected following a rigorous, peer-reviewed, selection process.  The chapters illustrate the application of a range of cutting-edge natural…
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Bankruptcy and insolvency taxation
The thousands of mergers, acquisitions, and start-ups that have characterized the past ten years of business have created an increasing number of corporations in financial trouble: specifically, a shortage of venture capital or quick cash. Consequently, bankruptcy protection is now viewed as a strategic move to protect corporations from their creditors and allow them to reorganize. Bankruptcy and…
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