The first three links were dead ends. A Chegg paywall. A Quizlet set with obviously wrong answers (someone had confused WACC with IRR). A sketchy PDF download that wanted her credit card and probably her firstborn child.
By 5:00 AM, her problem set was done. She didn't copy the answers—she re-did each one, checking her work against the hermit's commentary. She even found a small typo in Problem 17.12b (the hermit had used 34% instead of 21% for the old tax rate) and left a polite correction in a GitHub issue. Principles Of Corporate Finance 14th Edition Solutions
A plain, gray GitHub repository. No stars, no forks, just a single file: brealey_myers_allen_solutions_ch17_20.md . The owner's name was fin_hermit_99 . Last commit: three years ago. The first three links were dead ends
But there didn't need to be. The solutions weren't the point. The understanding was. A sketchy PDF download that wanted her credit
Priya starred the repo. Then she opened a new markdown file and started writing her own annotations for Chapter 18—"How Much Should a Firm Borrow?"