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by: Craig W. Holden
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780131611375
ISBN: 0131611372
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: February 02, 2004
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Sales Rank: 515710
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Product Description:
This book teaches the reader how to build financial models—not templates—with step-by-step instructions in Excel. Progressing from simple examples to practical, real-world applications, this book covers modeling for bonds and fixed income securities; stocks and security analysis; and options, futures, and derivatives. For financial planners and analysts.
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Rating: - Good but too short
This book is good but, it needs more explanation and some teoric references. BUt if you wanna have an excel guide with your Bodie investments book this is what you need.
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Rating:  - Excellent way to learn about building spreadsheets for investment analysis
I am a huge fan of this book for several reasons. First, I believe that Professor Holden is absolutely right in trying to move finance from a calculator driven study to spreadsheets. Everyone uses spreadsheets in their work, NOT calculators. So, it is not only useful to use spreadsheets, but to learn how to build them.
Another very nice thing about this book is that it uses plain vanilla Excel. You don't need any special add-ins. This allows the user to understand what Excel on ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent fundamental Modeling text.
Craig W. Holden's "Excel Modeling in Investments" came as an excellent surprise to me when I received a faculty review copy from the publisher. I have long used Simon Benninga's competing text "Financial Modeling in Excel" to teach undergraduate and graduate financial modeling courses, however, I seriously am considering switching to Holden's EMinI. Holden correctly emphasizes discounting a bond's value on various yield curves, rather than a linear or fixed discount rate as in Benninga. Holden has ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Supplement for Investments Classes
This book is not an end unto itself, but it is an excellent companion to the leading investment finance texts.
The book is oriented toward the graduate student (MBA), and the texts it parallels are the most popular MBA texts on the market. Whether you are using texts by any of the major publishers, the author Craig Holden has created these spreadsheeting materials to work directly with the text. It paralles directly the most popular text, but then it also comes with outlines and notation ... Read More
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