View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After both men left the company, how did they feel about themselves and their lives?

2. What was always well received by workers at the copy center?

3. How do accountants factor into the prospectus process?

4. What do Troob and Rolfe suggest that business school failed to teach the graduates?

5. Besides food, what was mostly consumed at the party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The SEC was created to offer regulation on the financial world.

1. Describe how investment banks conducted business prior to the stock market crash of the 1920s.

2. Detail how the SEC regulated banks from the 1920's to the early 2000s.

3. After reading this book and understanding the inner workings on investment banking, explain how you think the SEC should change regulations that could help the world out of its current economic recession.

Essay Topic 2

Rolfe and Troob survived abuse, long work hours, ridiculous amounts of work, and aggravating travel arrangements to make a lot of money.

In your opinion, was it all worth it?

Could they have chosen different career paths that would have offered them less stress and the same amount of money?

Do you think that Rolfe and Troob should have just paid their dues in the investment banking world?

Essay Topic 3

1. Compare pre-SEC 1920's investment banking to present day investment banks. Consider:

2. How have SEC regulations changed investment banking? Do you think the regulations are enough?

3. How has the role of the investment banker changed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 321 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample