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 A good book for beginners September 9, 2009
M. Lai
I actually found this book very helpful. The explanations were incredibly accessible and thorough. I did not use the accompanying disc, but I'm sure it's helpful as well, given the examples that the book goes through appear fairly straight forward.
 Advance Modelling in Finance purchase May 25, 2009
Cesar Leoz Bueno
right on hands ont he job, useful material, most of the book are applications so that is just what people looking for practical apps are looking for, no excess theorie alreasdy known to practicioners, excellent
 Not worth buying, don't get fooled by the reviews June 11, 2008
Reader (UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Have a look first before buying. I am surprised by the 5 stars reviews!
To summarize, it is like a very simple recipes book about some models in finance. It is not to teach you VBA, and definitely will not teach you anything about finance. It is a collection of VBA implementation of some algorithms used in finance.
The algorithms implemented are the simple ones, mostly of no practical use.
You better buy a VBA book and Hull. If you are however, more knowledgeable about the topic, buy Justin London book, modeling derivatives in C++.
This book will not teach you anything, and the code included will not help you. there is much better code available online for free.
Absolutely Great! January 11, 2006
C. Ang (Chicago, IL)
Advanced Modeling is a fantastic book, and pretty easy to follow with relatively few coding errors. There are some books out there that have errors in the code that they use, which makes it difficult or someone to learn the techniques. Even for those without a solid background in VBA, this book can benefit you to start learning how to code properly. Anyone who is relatively proficient with Excel can definitely gain a new trick or two from reading this book. All you really need to start using this book is a basic understanding of finance concepts (e.g. portolio theory, capital budgeting, binomial options pricing, Black-Scholes, etc.). The techniques that are taught are also useful in other modeling exercises, and not necessarily just for finance-related topics.
A Cookbook for Financial Modellers October 19, 2005
Max Rottersman (Hanover, NH USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Yes, the book won't teach you CAPM, Black-Scholes, or much financial theory. But there is NO shortage of those books. There is a shortage of books with real-world Excel solutions to applying financial theory to data. I've had this book for a couple of years and have probably only used 10% of it, only because I don't have time, real business need, to do the rest. I sometimes take it to bed to read and dream of having the time to try out some of their other models. That's the only thing I can add to the other reviews here, the amount of love and passion for the subject put into this book. There's not one extra padded word or graphic in this book. Yes, if there was one book I'd have to take to a desert island with Excel and some financial data this would be it.
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