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|  | Author: Simon Benninga
Publisher: The MIT Press
List Price: $85.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 9354
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Pages: 1168
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.9
ISBN: 0262026287
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.015118
EAN: 9780262026284
ASIN: 0262026287
Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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 The best book out there for financial modeling using Excel December 17, 2008
Saurav (Columbus, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Professor Benninga's "Financial Modeling" is the best and most comprehensive book on financial modeling with excel available. For beginners in Finance they could start with another excellent book the "Principles of Finance with Excel" by the same author.
Professor Benninga is an authority on numerical methods in finance and financial engineering. The credit goes in making the sophisticated financial modelling look simple with excel so that any person with some background and interest in finance can work through it and understand the latest in theory and practice. Before i read this book, I had little idea that topics like event study, Black-Litterman approach, calculatng default adjusted expected Bond returns,Value at Risk (using monte carlo as well as bootstrapping) and option geeks can be so easily explained using excel. For readers who have little experience in higher level programming language, the Visual Basic Application would be a great way to get started.The book has a wealth of VBA programs which can be customized to one's needs. I yearned for having a way to download and manipulate the latest market data from yahoo or msn rather than having to update it manually (or through an excel add-in provided in microsoft site which has limited capabilities). The book uses VBA ways to download and process the raw data fro yahoo finance and MSN money. At the end of the last chapter of the book the author says that the "The sky is the limit". I agree with him completely, the sky is the limit with this book. For academics, this book can be used in an elective course in Finance for MBA or a masters level course in Finance or financial economics. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Financial modeling.
Good Value December 14, 2008
Andres Dehais (Buford, GA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
After looking for a little while (internet and bookstores) I can tell you this is the best value you can find anywhere...
Good book September 28, 2008
Lin Donglei (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a good book on financial modeling. Good quality, not only the book itself but also the CD which goes with it.
Wide-ranging book with incredible hands on insight September 16, 2008
Uzair Khan (Chicago, Il)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish I had the opportunity to study modeling from this perspective while in school. Prof Benninga's insistence on taking the student from theory to application provides a unique perspective that is critical to a variety of functions in corporate finance.
I use this book on almost a daily basis to approach common financial decisions with a new level of quantative rigor.
Worth easily 10x its price. Do buy.
 So many typos... May 23, 2008
Finance Student (New York, USA)
8 out of 26 found this review helpful
First, this book has lots of typos. This creates problems for me when I enter VBA codes into modules.
Second, it does not have the necessary coverage of some topics. The usual thing you will notice is "A full treatment of .. is beyond our scope". This would not be a problem but then you see homework exercises based on something that was "beyond the scope".
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