<prompt> Human: Im considering on buying:ororare there better textbooks out there?Thanks in advance.  <response>: I dont know what the definitive book is, but I am a Financial Planning major, and this was the text book we used for our Theory and Practice class: Its very well-written IMO, and drills at least a little bit into all the different areas of financial planning without very much extraneous information.Another book recommendation would be I havent read this book, but I have read other textbooks by Michael Dalton, and thought they were very well done.I saw in one of your posts in the thread you said you were interested in the why. I dont know that you would get that out of a financial planning textbook; you might be thinking more of behavioral finance. Just a thought. 