Excel-Based Financial Modeling: A Practitioner's Guide

Author: Dai
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-06-30
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 enhancing your 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. 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 offers readers a method not found in corporate finance textbooks or Excel manuals. It is 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 construct Excel financial models more effectively and professionally, and apply corporate finance concepts more efficiently. 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 results from your models more convincing; and How to conduct deeper analyses of your models.
Alastair L. Dai has worked in the finance industry for 20 years, involved in activities such as capital trading and leasing management, as well as marketing management. He initially worked for NFC, handling capital trading and leasing management. With NFC's privatization in 1980, he shifted to market operations. In the 1980s, he became the chairman of a leasing company, which grew rapidly through projects in IT, print media, and industrial manufacturing. In the late 1980s, Chairman Alastair L. Dai sold the company to a publicly listed firm. In 1990, Alastair L. Dai founded System Finance PLC, serving as an advisor and financial lessor for the computer and communications industries. He holds a degree in economics and German from the University of London and an MBA in business administration from the Open University Business School, where he also served as an associate lecturer in corporate finance. In addition to this work, he has authored other publications such as The Finance Director's Guide to Purchasing and Leasing, and developed numerous software products. Furthermore, he 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.