Performing Financial Studies : A Methodological Cookbook

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Summary: Practical roadmap to analytical success
Review: This book offers a Practical roadmap to analytical success for the novice of financial studies. It fills the (very) large gap between the sophisticated academic literature and the software tools (Excel, SPSS, Eviews) students need to use once they venture to explore financial data. The book guides the user in an informative and straigthforward manner to get results from the software. Concepts and statistical output are explained (but not too extensively) on the way. This leaves ample room for lecturers to enrich the book's tutorials with their own material.
A minor criticism is that the book deals with most subjects rather briefly. Surely, this is to prevent ending up with a 1.000 page book. But on the other hand, I recommend that the author should write similar titles in the same manner but more dedicated to particular subjects, e.g. financial time series.