Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals | 
 enlarge | Author: K. Scott Proctor
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471661031
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.150285554
UPC: 723812675050
EAN: 9780471661030
ASIN: 0471661031
Publication Date: October 4, 2004
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Product Description
A comprehensive guide to building financial models
Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel + CD-ROM provides beginning or intermediate level computer users with step-by-step instructions on building financial models using Microsoft Excel-the most popular spreadsheet program available. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets that track the course of the book and allow readers to build their own financial models. This comprehensive resource also covers important topics such as the concept of valuation, the concept of sensitivity analysis, the concepts of contribution margin and financial ratios and the basics of building and using a Capitalization Table.
K. Scott Proctor, CFA, is the Director of Investor Analytics at SNL Financial, a financial information provider.
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 Error, errors, errors November 1, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book lost all credibility on the 3rd chapter. The assumptions and dashboard worksheet numbers don't match up with the sales budget numbers. I continued along through the example to find more errors. What an idiot. What a waste of time. Don't buy this book.
 goes somewhat beyond introductory Excel March 18, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The book has some merit to a reader new to Excel, and who wants something a bit more indepth than the Idiots or Dummy's books on Excel. Proctor gives examples that do more with the spreadsheets, and you get to appreciate what Excel can provide.
But, as other reviewers have cogently pointed out, the book really is not for business professionals, despite what the title says. An accountant or businessperson should already have more background on financial modelling with spreadsheets that the level provided here.
WAY too Basic for Most March 13, 2007
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This work lacks substance for anyone remotely likely to have to do any real financial analysis. The examples are too simplistic to be of much practical value. If you have virtually no training or experience in Excel or accounting or finance then this book might be worth borrowing from a library to get you up to speed. If you have more than a week of experience in this area then it will sit on the shelf.
Hardly a Guide for any Professional in Finance September 27, 2006
40 out of 42 found this review helpful
Chances are that if you are even thinking about financial modeling you have at least a basic understanding of excel and accounting. If that is the case, this book will prove to be almost completely useless. The modeling examples used within the book are so simplistic that if you have had half a semester in an accounting class you will have a more indepth understanding than what the book provides. Financial valuation is almost non existant as is sensitivity analysis, with each getting a short token chapter. The use of excel is at such a beginner level that I feel as if I did more indepth work with excel attempting to figure out my student loan payments. I have read the book from front to back and feel as if it has provided me with no useful manner in which to conduct any sort of modeling other than in an imaginary world where companies only sell one product, have almost no expenses, collect all their recievables within the next pay period and other such ludicrious assumptions. In addition there are several errors in the examples provided in the book. These made me chuckle since anyone who could catch them would not need the book and anyone who actually needs the book for its rudimentary "guidance" would be left bewildered and confused as to why they got the answers wrong.
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