How Finance Works
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How Finance Works
| Full title | How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers |
|---|---|
| Author | Mihir Desai |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Mihir Desai’s case-based walk through finance for people who have to use it rather than practise it — ratios, capital structure, valuation and capital allocation, built around asking the reader to guess the answer first. |
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @WillManidis asking “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (the thread, June 2025); the full list is on what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Finance — the industry the book explains.
- Capital Allocation — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
What links here
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