Excel-based Financial Modeling -- Practitioner's Guide: Practitioner's Guide

Author: Alastair L. Day
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book is a highly practical resource that provides a method not covered in corporate finance textbooks or Excel manuals. It serves as a guide to model design methods, aimed at saving your time and making your work more efficient. When used with the accompanying CD-ROM, it will enable finance professionals and business school students to excel and become more professional in constructing Excel financial models, as well as apply corporate finance concepts more effectively. This book is suitable for CFOs, financial directors, financial managers, analysts, accountants, corporate finance staff, inventory managers, risk managers, general managers, decision-makers in banking, corporate, and government institutions, as well as students in universities, business schools, and MBA programs.
This book is a highly practical resource that provides readers with a method not covered in corporate finance textbooks or Excel manuals. It serves as a guide to model design methods, specifically designed to save readers' time and improve their work efficiency. When used with the accompanying CD-ROM, it will enable finance professionals and business school students to excel and become more professional in constructing Excel financial models, as well as apply corporate finance concepts more effectively. The book addresses many core questions, including: How to build more powerful Excel models; How to add more advanced features to Excel models; How to make the answers provided by the model more convincing; and How to conduct deeper analysis of your models.
Alastair L. Day has worked in the finance industry for 20 years, involved in activities such as capital trading and lease management, as well as marketing management. He initially worked for NFC, handling capital trading and lease management. With NFC's privatization in 1980, he shifted to market operations. In the 1980s, he became the chairman of a leasing company, which rapidly grew through IT, printing, and industrial manufacturing projects. In the late 1980s, Chairman Alastair L. Day sold the company to a listed public company. In 1990, Alastair L. Day founded System Finance PLC, serving as an advisor and financial lessor for the computer and communications industry. He holds a degree in economics and German from the University of London, an MBA in business administration from the Open University Business School, and served as an associate lecturer in corporate finance at the Open University.
In addition to his work on this book, Alastair L. Day has authored other works such as The Finance Director's Guide to Purchasing and Leasing, and has developed numerous software products. He also offers both public and internal courses covering a wide range of topics, including financial modeling, leasing, credit, and cash flow analysis, as well as other corporate finance issues.