Mastering Financial Modelling: A practitioner's guide to applied corporate finance (Market Editions) [Paperback]

Alastair Day (Author)

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ISBN-10: 027364310X | ISBN-13: 978-0273643104 | Publication Date: July 25, 2003

Mastering Financial Modelling is a practical book and disk combination that will help finance professionals and business students alike to become more proficient in building Microsoft Excel models and applying corporate finance concepts.

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Mastering Financial Modelling is a practical book and disk combination that will help finance professionals and business students alike to become more proficient in building Microsoft Excel models and applying corporate finance concepts.

About the Author

Alastair Day has worked in the finance industry for 20 years in treasury and marketing functions. He worked originally for the NFC, negotiating funding and administering leases, and switched to marketing finance upon the privatization of NFC in 1980. During the 1980s he was a director of a leasing company whose rapid growth was based on programmes in the IT, print and machine tool industries. The directors sold the company to a PLC at the end of the decade. In 1990 he established Systematic Finance as a consultancy and financial lessor concentrating on the computer and communications industries.

Alastair has a degree in Economics and German from London University, an MBA from the Open University Business School, and is an associate lecturer in corporate finance with the OUBS. Other publications include books such as The Financial Director's Guide to Purchasing Leasing published by the Financial Times Prentice Hall and a range of software products. In addition, he develops and presents public and in-house courses on a range of topics including financial modelling, leasing, credit and cash flow analysis, and other corporate finance topics.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall (July 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 027364310X
• ISBN-13: 978-0273643104
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,966,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ignore previous reviewer, January 2, 2003

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This review is from: Mastering Financial Modelling: A practitioner's guide to applied corporate finance (Market Editions) (Paperback)

if you actually install the files, instead of running them off of the write-protected CD-ROM, you can edit them.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ignore previous reviewer -- password protection IS a major problem, July 24, 2005

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This review is from: Mastering Financial Modelling: A practitioner's guide to applied corporate finance (Market Editions) (Paperback)

Even if you copy the templates to your hard drive, you CANNOT customise the many password-protected spreadsheet templates included on the CD.

Even more disappointingly, the password prevents you from using Excel's audit function to trace formulae components.

This means that to understand formulae one must resort to the tedious, stone-age method of looking in the formula bar and noting down by hand that the formula is, for example," = (sum (A6:G12)) * [next sheet!]Q7 + ([sheet 7!]T78 / [sheet 3!] c24)", and then translating it all into English.

In summary, if you want to teach yourself from this book it will cost you a very substantial time investment in addition to the book's cover price.

21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Ideas - BUT You Can't Customize the Spreadsheets, October 4, 2001

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This review is from: Mastering Financial Modelling: A practitioner's guide to applied corporate finance (Market Editions) (Paperback)

Some good ideas about applying Microsoft Excel are included in book and the accompanying CD-ROM. But unfortunately the included models are not practical for most American readers. They use English nomenclature - NPAT instead of Net Income, etc. - and have formatting that looks ok on screen but is less than presentation quality when printed.

The author has password protected the spreadsheets so you can't customize them to your own needs. A serious drawback for the serious user, clearly the intended readership for this book.