Visual IFPS/Plus for Business [Paperback]

Paul Gray (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131856049 | ISBN-13: 978-0131856042 | Publication Date: October 16, 1995 | Edition: 1

Appropriate for students or professionals in the disciplines of Business, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, Information Science, and other related areas. Intended for both beginner and advanced users and assumes that the user has access to Visual IFPS/Plus at a computer terminal. Also suitable for the client/server operation, whereby the client and server are on the same or different machines and are connected by a network. Based on his experience with the Interactive Financial Planning System the author provides students and professionals with this "user friendly" textbook that facilitates learning of the Visual IFPS/Plus language. This text offers novices step-by-step instruction of the language and, at the same time, offers more experienced users numerous new capabilities for the language.

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From the Publisher

Based on his experience with the Interactive Financial Planning System the author provides students and professionals with this "user friendly" textbook that facilitates learning of the Visual IFPS/Plus language. This text offers novices step–by–step instruction of the language and, at the same time, offers more experienced users numerous new capabilities for the language.

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: Based on his experience with the Interactive Financial Planning System the author provides readers and professionals with this “user friendly” approach that facilitates learning of the Visual IFPS/Plus language. Key Topics: This book offers novices step–by–step instruction of the language and, at the same time, offers more experienced users numerous new capabilities for the language. It introduces modeling and decision support systems, fundamental to understanding the Visual IFPS/Plus modeling language; provides models, increasing in complexity as the chapters progress, that demonstrate how to write, manipulate, and obtain desired, financial planning results in Visual IFPS/Plus language; focuses on explanatory features of the language that support decision making and improve communication based on model output; illustrates the wide range of applications, taken from the disciplines of finance, statistics, and operations management, and the advanced computational features for which the language can be utilized.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (October 16, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131856049
• ISBN-13: 978-0131856042
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,452,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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