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Title: Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition by Simon Benninga ISBN: 0-262-02482-9 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book due to its simple practicality
Comment: I highly recommend this book to any aspiring financial analyst. It is definitely worth it, even at the list price.
Want to master the fundamentals of basic finance using Excel? then this is one of the few books on the market that really meet this need. Want to set up more advanced mathmatics modeling? well as the introduction of this explains, this book is more like a cookbook: it lists the required basic ingredients and the culinary process but if you want to spice the dish (financial model) up, it is up to the individuals to dig out those advanced formulas from the financial trade journals and apply them to the models.
I first saw the first edition of this book in my college library. took it home and was EXCITED. I was looking for a practical book that would show me the intricacies of Excel for setting up financial models and this was like a god-sent. Like one of the other reviewers said, this book combined basic finance, Excel functions, and VBA programming. To add practicality to this book, Professor Benninga even showed how to download financial data from the internet. Granted it is rather basic, but it adds to the usability of his book, making it a well-round book.
The best parts are end-of-the chapter exercises. Solutions are provided in the accompanying CD-ROM. See how many ways can you solve the same problem.
Professor Benninga always outlines the assumptions and explains the parameters of each model. We should remember that in many instances, unrealistic assumptions lead to way-of-the mark numbers, rendering the whole modeling process and its calculations useless.
Want to become a advanced-level financial modeler? then master the fundamentals first! this book gets you started.
P.S. I also highly recommend to anyone just starting with Excel modeling to read William J. Orvis's Excel for Scientists and Engineers. It is a bit outdated but still highly useful for its chapters on curve fitting, VBA programming and raw data manipulation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extraordinarily useful book! No errors!
Comment: I recently got Benninga's book on financial modeling. I think it is a great book! For once, someone has taken the time to write a book that takes financial theory out of the classroom and follows it directly in a simple path to useful applications. Unfortunately all too many academic authors fail to take their work the final step and thus much of it can never be fully applied.
I went through many of the exercises and did not find any errors or mistakes. I suspect that those readers commenting on mistakes lack certain basic Excel skills (necessary for this book).
If you're interested in financial modeling, or want to sharpen your finance skills, this is the book to get.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Indispensable Toolkit
Comment: This is is spectacularly effective guide to basic financial modelling using Excel and VBA. Far too many financial textbooks confine themselves to theory without giving the student any guidelines on how to put what they have learned into practice - a startling omission in what is a pre-eminently practical field. Benninga has attempted to fill that gap, and he succeeds brilliantly. Using very clear language and a step-by-step approach, he teaches the reader how to actually construct for himself or herself a series of different financial models that are immediately applicable in the real world. There are sections on corporate finance (cash flow) models, basic portfolio models (CAPM applications) and a really good one on option pricing models that has saved my bacon on more than one occasion! Other sections cover topics such as fixed income and Excel/VBA issues. In conclusion, this is a very impressive text, complete with usable models on CD-ROM, that can take you from novice to mid-level quant in a few weeks!
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Title: Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA by Mary Jackson, Mike Staunton ISBN: 0471499226 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel (2nd Edition) by Conrad Carlberg ISBN: 0789725525 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 07 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Second Edition by Aswath Damodaran ISBN: 0471414883 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Spreadsheet Modeling in Corporate Finance by Craig W. Holden ISBN: 0130499056 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.60 |
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Title: Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 3rd Edition by McKinsey & Company Inc., Tom Copeland, Tim Koller, Jack Murrin ISBN: 0471361909 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 28 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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