Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals (Wiley Finance Series) - Tapa dura

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A proven guide to building financial models from scratch The Second Edition of Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel + CD-ROM provides beginning and intermediate level computer users with step-by-step instructions on building financial models using Microsoft Excel 2007-the most popular spreadsheet program available. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets that track the course of the book and allow you to build your own financial models. This comprehensive resource also covers important topics such as the concepts of valuation, sensitivity analysis, and contribution margin. Offers accessible guidance on building financial models using Excel 2007 Illustrates how to integrate financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows Covers the basics of building and using a Capitalization Table Discusses how to best present a financial model Incorporating financial models into business decisions has become an essential element of good business practice, and this book will show you how to excel at this endeavor.

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Praise for the First Edition of

Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel

"Scott Proctor offers a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to constructing and using financial models; I recommend this book as a tutorial and a reference for business professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors."
—Jack M. Gill, PhD, Vanguard Ventures

"This book is about making good decisions. . . . The modeling tools described in this book establish an analytical framework which adds much needed clarity to effective decision-making. This in-depth guide should well serve experienced professionals as a reference and business students and entrepreneurs as a tutorial."
—Eugene V. Fife, Retired Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

"Excel has become a critical element for decision-making in the modern business environment. Mr. Proctor's book is a solid introduction to utilizing this complex tool."
—William Polk Carey, Chairman and founder, W.P. Carey & Co. LLC

Readable, comprehensive, and engaging—buy this book; study it; and thereby build your capacity to harness the computer in the solution of real-world business problems."

—Robert F. Bruner, Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

"This book offers an excellent guide to building financial models. Proctor guides readers through the many interrelated steps involved in constructing and using financial models, a vital skill in today's business world."
—Jeffrey Nuechterlein, Managing Partner, Isis Capital

"Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel takes a complex but critical subject and presents it in a concise, easy-to-follow fashion. This book is an indispensable reference guide for anyone who needs to build or analyze financial models using Microsoft Excel."
—Michael R. Lincoln, Partner, Cooley Godward LL