Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization: A Step-By-Step Guide With Excel and Palisade's Decisiontools Software

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Summary: it is easy to use and understand
Review: I use this book for a lab I teach in advanced airline economics. It is very easy to use and understand and covers basic excel financial and statistical models.

The students have no problems using it.

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Summary: Excellent resource for marketing or finance manager
Review: The book provides step-by-step method to guide you to build financial models for your company. Once you understand the basic foundation, you could use the tools to build more complex models.

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Summary: Excellent resource for marketing or finance manager
Review: The book provides step-by-step method to guide you to build financial models for your company. Once you understand the basic foundation, you could use the tools to build more complex models.

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Summary: An execellent guide to intermediate/advanced models
Review: This book does what it says it does in the title. It is a hand-on, step-by-step guide to constructing spreadsheet models to assist with decision making. The book guides the reader through intermediate to advanced modelling topics and is written at a level that is accessable to the novice and intermediate user. Advanced users are probably already familiar with the techniques presented.

Someone interested in the tiresome advanced mathematics behind the models should look instead to academic journals . . . someone interested in APPLYING that stuff to something useful should consider this book.

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Summary: An execellent guide to intermediate/advanced models
Review: This book does what it says it does in the title. It is a hand-on, step-by-step guide to constructing spreadsheet models to assist with decision making. The book guides the reader through intermediate to advanced modelling topics and is written at a level that is accessable to the novice and intermediate user. Advanced users are probably already familiar with the techniques presented.

Someone interested in the tiresome advanced mathematics behind the models should look instead to academic journals . . . someone interested in APPLYING that stuff to something useful should consider this book.

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Summary: Good guide to learn to develop financial models
Review: This book has good examples that one can use to get up and going with basic to intermediate financial models. If you have to start somewhere, this is certainly it.