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Practical Financial Modelling by Jonathan Swan
  • Practical Financial Modelling

  • A Guide to Current Practice

  • by Jonathan Swan
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    • Product code: 23758
    • ISBN: 0750663561, ISBN13: 9780750663564, 160 pages, paperback
      Published by CIMA Publishing on 2004 , New title
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    Description of Practical Financial Modelling

    This book is for all financial professionals whose work, to a greater or lesser degree, involves complex spreadsheets and financial models. This includes investment bankers, commercial banks, accountancy firms, property firms, public sector including local government and healthcare, PFI/PPP enterprises, financial managers and financially literate general managers. Junior/middle management, where the focus would be on cash flow forecasting and budgeting tasks, will also find this book of value. For the vast majority of people involved in this subject, financial modelling is an activity, a task requiring skills. Once people have the ability to structure the model, they have a better starting point from which to address the financial problems. This new book proposal intends to offer that starting point.Theory is limited to the absolute essentials that aid understanding; thus the focus with this new book is very practical - this is 'how-to-do-it', showing best practice, and is illustrated with many practical worked examples. "Practical Financial Modelling covers all the essentials in one book. It includes how-to approach, with numerous worked examples.
    It also explains the techniques and functions of Excel most use in financial modelling and budgeting.

    Contents of Practical Financial Modelling

    Context:
    Introduction
    Definitions
    Descriptions
    Common approaches
    Structure
    Inputs
    Workings
    Outputs
    Variations
    Support
    Documentation
    Navigation

    Content:
    Formulae
    Range names
    Corkscrews
    Masks and switches
    Recalculation
    Circularities
    Functions
    Logical
    Lookup
    Financial
    Other
    Custom

    Quality control:
    Audit
    Audit sheet
    Structural checks
    Arithmetical checks
    Financial checks
    Model Use
    Grouping
    Data validation and Dropdown lists
    Conditional and custom formats
    Sensitivity analysis
    Reporting - Reports, Charting, Printing
    Automation
    Macros

    Appendix;
    Keyboard shortcuts
    References
    Further information
    index

    About Jonathan Swan

    Following a career in the Army the author has been teaching spreadsheet applications in the City of London since 1991. His work has encompassed a range of consultancy and development assignments working with investment banks and others in the City and throughout Europe. For the past five years he has been working at Operis Group plc, the UK's leading independent financial modelling consultancy, where he is director of the training division of the company. Operis teach the fundamentals of financial modelling to over a thousand professionals each year, from backgrounds that include banking, accountancy, financial analysis, and management. With the rest of the company working on major modelling projects in the PFI/PPP sector and elsewhere, their training is based on the latest practice in the industry.

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