Introduction

Part I: Getting Started With Investment Banking

Chapter 1: Introducing Investment Banking
Chapter 2: The Purpose of Investment Banking; What Investment Bankers Do
Chapter 3: How Investment Bankers Sell Companies
Chapter 4: How Investment Banking Is Used in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Chapter 5: How Investment Banking Is Used in Leveraged Buyouts

Part II: Digging In: Performing Investment Banking

Chapter 6: Finding the data: Documents and Reports
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Financial Statements
Chapter 8: Perfecting the Financial Ratios for Investment Banking
Chapter 9: Sizing Up the Industry
Chapter 10; Understanding Stocks and Focusing on Past Transactions
Chapter 11: Applying Investment Banking to Fixed Income

Part III: Taking Investment Banking to the Next Level

Chapter 12: Doing a Discounted Free Cash Flow Analysis
Chapter 13: Structuring a Leveraged Buyout
Chapter 14: Determining the Strength of a Company’s Return on Equity

Part IV: Applying Investment Banking

Chapter 15: Knowing the Rules
Chapter 16: Seeing How Some Companies Lie, Cheat, and Steal. Their Way to the Top
Chapter 17: Understanding Alternative Investments and Asset Management
Chapter 18: Trying Your Hand at Investment Banking with a Case Study

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten of the Biggest Debacles in Investment Banking History
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Improve a Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) of the Best Online Resources for Investment Bankers

Appendix: Where Investment Banking Came From
Index