Practical Financial Modelling : A Guide to Current Practice

Swan, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0750663561 / ISBN 13: 9780750663564

Published by Butterworth-Heinemann Limited, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Practical Financial Modelling : A Guide to ...

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Limited

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

This book is for all financial professionals whose work, to a greater or lesser degree, involves complex spreadsheets and financial models. This includes investment bankers, commercial banks, accountancy firms, property firms, public sector including local government and healthcare, PFI/PPP enterprises, financial managers and financially literate general managers. Junior/middle management, where the focus would be on cash flow forecasting and budgeting tasks, will also find this book of value.

For the vast majority of people involved in this subject, financial modelling is an activity, a task requiring skills. Once people have the ability to structure the model, they have a better starting point from which to address the financial problems. This new book proposal intends to offer that starting point.

Theory is limited to the absolute essentials that aid understanding; thus the focus with this new book is very practical - this is "how-to-do-it", showing best practice, and is illustrated with many practical worked examples.

* Practical financial modelling- all the essentials in one book
* How-to approach, with numerous worked examples
* Explains the techniques and functions of Excel most use in financial modelling and budgeting

Review:

Five Star Reviews from Amazon.co.uk (all five stars):
"I attended one of Jonathan's courses recently and commented at the time that it was rather like the spreadsheet equivalent of going from an ordinary car to driving an F1 car! I have now read through his book and I can only say that this is a superb publication. It sets out how to do advanced spreadsheet modelling far better than anything else I have come across."

"This guide consists of 163 pages of text along with a CD containing Excel-based demonstration material...It offers detailed advice on preparing financial models using Excel spreadsheets, which is likely to be of use to both practitioners and students of practical financial modelling....Although there are many guides to Excel on the market, this one is distinguished by its emphasis on how to use the program for management accounting. Even the most experienced modeller will learn something from this resource."