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Financial Modeling (9780262026284): Simon Benninga: Books. Financial Modeling by Simon Benninga is an outstanding resource for teaching the essentials of finance to both undergraduates and masters students. It is comprehensive, lucid, and a highly useful resource in every financial modeler's toolkit.--Richard W. Roll, Professor of Management, and Japan Alumni Chair in International FinanceThe third edition of this standard text retains the popular cookbook features of earlier editions and includes expanded and new coverage of such topics as bank valuation, the Black-Litterman portfolio selection model, Monte Carlo pricing methods, array function, and getting information from the Internet with VBA.I've learned a great deal from the first two editions of Simon Benninga's Financial Modeling, and the Third Edition offers both new topics and updated coverage of topics from earlier editions. The book gives clear, well-illustrated instructions for using Excel software to solve finance problems, ranging from basic to highly sophisticated, in both corporate finance and investments. The many excellent examples draw on actual company data, and the book gives useful tips on obtaining current data from the internet. Financial Modeling is an outstanding resource for finance professionals, instructors and students. As with earlier editions, I plan to keep my copy close at hand.--Robert A. Taggart, Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (Robert Taggert )The new edition of Simon Begginga's Financial Modeling is a comprehensive and effective learning-by-doing tool in motivating users and making easily accessible the concepts of modern corporate finance, investments, and derivatives. In the real world of finance, its clear step-by-step approach empowers the practitioner to search the internet for financial data, build programs to analyze them, and make sound financial decisions. I strongly recommend it to the finance student and practitioner alike.--George Constantinides, Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (George M. Constantinides )For the 2nd Edition: Benninga has a clear writing style and uses numerous illustrations, which make this book one of the best texts on using Excel for finance that I've seen. Ed McCarthy Ticker MagazineFor the 2nd Edition: The author describes this as a 'cookbook' and that is a good analogy.... Its breadth is extensive, covering simple present valuing and cost of capital... to the likes of real options and early exercise of American-style options.... A worthwhile acquisition. Paul Dentskevitch Risk MagazineFor the 2nd Edition: Financial Modeling belongs on the desk of every finance professional. Its no-nonsense, hands-on approach makes it an indispensable tool.Hal R. Varian , Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, BerkeleyFor the 2nd Edition: This is applied finance theory for the professional at its best. As a student, I and countless others learnt the intricacies of Lotus and financial theory from Professor Benningas first book -- Numerical Techniques in Finance. Now, as a professional, I do not have t[6440] Simon Benninga is Professor of Finance at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor of Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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