This text is intended for the Corporate Finance course at the MBA level, but it can also be appropriate for undergraduates at higher level schools. Aswath Damodaran is nationally recognized for his teaching approach, using theory and the models that flow from it to understand, analyze and solve problems. He treats corporate finance as a living discipline by making it much more applied than other textbooks. Throughout the text, real companies and real data are used in examples and exercises.
Aswath Damodaran is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education). He is well known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management; as well as a provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes.
The most lucid textbook out there to attenuate difficult finance concepts to the lay student. Wish this would be more of a mandatory reading to the Wall street types.