Introduction 1 Part I: 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 79 Part II: Digging In: Performing Investment Banking 93 Chapter 6: Finding the Data: Documents and Reports 95 Chapter 7: Making Sense of Financial Statements 113 Chapter 8: Perfecting the Financial Ratios for Investment Banking 133 Chapter 9: Sizing Up the Industry 151 Chapter 10: Understanding Stocks and Focusing on Past Transactions 169 Chapter 11: Applying Investment Banking to Fixed Income 183 Part III: Taking Investment Banking to the Next Level 201 Chapter 12: Doing a Discounted Free Cash Flow Analysis 203 Chapter 13: Structuring a Leveraged Buyout 223 Chapter 14: Determining the Strength of a Company?s Return on Equity 237 Part IV: Applying Investment Banking 253 Chapter 15: Knowing the Rules 255 Chapter 16: Seeing How Some Companies Lie, Cheat, and Steal Their Way to the Top 269 Chapter 17: Understanding Alternative Investments and Asset Management 289 Chapter 18: Trying Your Hand at Investment Banking with a Case Study 303 Part V: The Part of Tens 315 Chapter 19: Ten of the Biggest Debacles in Investment Banking History 317 Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Improve a Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 325 Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) of the Best Online Resources for Investment Bankers 333 Appendix: Where Investment Banking Came From 341 Index 349.