Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel [Paperback]

Timothy R. Mayes (Author), Todd M. Shank (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0324407505 | ISBN-13: 978-0324407501 | Edition: 4

Start mastering the tool that finance professionals depend upon every day. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL covers all the topics you'll see in a corporate finance course: financial statements, budgets, the Market Security Line, pro forma statements, cost of capital, equities, and debt. Plus, it's easy-to-read and full of study tools that will help you succeed in class.

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About the Author

Timothy R. Mayes serves as finance professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He holds a B.S. and B.A. in Finance and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Central Florida. His research interests include portfolio performance analysis and reporting, portfolio theory, derivatives, and, of course, the use of spreadsheets in financial education.

Todd M. Shank is Associate Dean and M.B.A. Director of the Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. School of Business Administration at the University of Portland in Oregon. In the spring of 2003, he served as a Fulbright Lecturer in China, where he taught corporate financial management in the graduate school at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Dr. Shank received his Ph.D. from Central Florida. He has worked for the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Comptroller of the Currency as a banking regulator and has been teaching, consulting, and writing for more than 25 years. During that time, he has served on the faculties of three universities, published two textbooks and academic articles in numerous journals, including American Business Review, Global Business and Finance Review, Journal of Foreign Exchange and International Finance, and the Journal of Financial Education. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the University's Teacher of the Year and the Pamplin School's Best Graduate Professor. He also serves on several national panels that promote technological applications in business education. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 476 pages
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 4 edition (August 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324407505
• ISBN-13: 978-0324407501
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #830,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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75 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misleading!, July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Financial Analysis With Microsoft Excel (Paperback)

Amazon advertises this book as being written in December 1997! It is from 1996 and uses the old Excel program! I was very discouraged when I opened it and put the software in! Guess that is the chance you take when you don't buy at a bookstore where you can look for yourself!

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading Title, October 7, 2004

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Bloomington Student (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel 2002 (Paperback)

Should be "Introduction to Excel using Finance Examples" At an introductory level, the Excel coverage is OK. But the finance component is extremely shallow. The authors need to team up with someone who knows finance. Those who seriously want to learn what this text wanted to offer should try "Financial Modeling Using Excel and VBA" (Wiley Finance)
by Chandan Sengupta.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some background, January 29, 2008

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Marshal Berthier "Marshal Berthier" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel (Paperback)

This is the text for the FIN 4200 class taught by Dr. Mayes at Metro State College in Denver. When he wrote it he was frustrated with the lack of material available to teach under-grads what they needed to get employment in the business world or do more advanced work in grad school.

Having survived Dr. Mayes' class I can say this book is an Excellent text for learning practical advanced spreadsheet techniques. It is NOT a replacement for a corporate finance text, doesn't represent itself as that, and the chapters are actually laid out to parallel Brigham's Intermediate Financial Management text which is the text used in corp finance at Metro.

Each chapter represents approximately one week's topic, and it is necessary to do the problems at the end of each chapter to develop the skill needed to achieve his purpose. He also has all kinds of useful Excel type stuff on his website at (http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Emayest)