ABSTRACT

Finance is Excel! This book takes you straight into the fascinating world of Excel, the powerful tool for number crunching. In a clear cut language it amalgamates financial theory with Excel providing you with the skills you need to build financial models for private or professional use. A comprehensive knowledge of modeling in Excel is becoming increasingly important in a competitive labour market.

The chapters in part one start with the most basic Excel topics such as cell addresses, workbooks, basic formulas, etc. These chapters get more advanced through part one, and takes you in the end to topics such as array formulas, data tables, pivot tables, etc.  The other parts of the book discusses a variety of subjects such as net present value, internal rate of return, risk, portfolio theory, CAPM, VaR, project valuation, asset valuation, firm valuation, loan, leasing, stocks, bonds, options, simulation, sensitivity analysis, etc.

part I|52 pages

Excel

chapter 1|12 pages

Getting started

chapter 2|13 pages

Formulas and functions

chapter 3|18 pages

Charts and tables

chapter 4|5 pages

What-if analysis

chapter 5|2 pages

Data analysis

part II|66 pages

Basic finance

chapter 6|9 pages

Time value of money

chapter 7|15 pages

Investments

chapter 8|40 pages

Risk and portfolio models

part III|76 pages

Valuation

chapter 9|26 pages

Valuation of investments and projects

chapter 10|19 pages

Real estate

chapter 11|29 pages

Bonds

chapter 12|26 pages

Stocks

chapter 13|18 pages

Options

part IV|16 pages

Simulations

chapter 14|14 pages

Monte Carlo simulations

part V|172 pages

VBa

chapter 15|15 pages

Visual Basic for applications

chapter 16|38 pages

Programming in VBA

chapter 17|25 pages

Control structures

chapter 18|19 pages

Working with VBA

chapter 19|28 pages

Procedures

chapter 20|22 pages

Arrays

chapter 21|23 pages

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