Dewey Decimal332.0285/554
Table Of ContentPreface PART 1: CAPITAL BUDGETING AND VALUATION Chapter 1. Introduction to Finance Chapter 2. The Time Value of Money Chapter 3: What Does It Cost? IRR and the Time Value of Money Chapter 4. Introduction to Capital Budgeting Chapter 5. Issues in Capital Budgeting Chapter 6. Choosing a Discount Rate Chapter 7. Using Financial Planning Models for Valuation PART 2: PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS AND THE CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL Chapter 8. What is Risk? Chapter 9. Statistics for Portfolios Chapter 10. Portfolio Returns and the Efficient Frontier Chapter 11. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Security Market Line (SML) Chapter 12. Using the Security Market Line (SML) to Measure Investment Performance Chapter 13. The Security Market Line (SML) and the Cost of Capital PART 3: VALUING SECURITIES Chapter 14. Efficient Markets-Some General Principles of Security Valuation Chapter 15. Bond Valuation Chapter 16. Valuing Stocks PART 4. CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND DIVIDEND POLICY Chapter 17. Capital Structure and the Value of the Firm Chapter 18. The Evidence on Capital Structure Chapter 19. Dividend Policy PART 5. OPTIONS AND OPTION VALUATION Chapter 20. Introduction to Options Chapter 21. Option Pricing Facts Chapter 22. Option Pricing - The Black-Scholes Formula Chapter 23. The Binomial Option-Pricing Model SECTION 6. BACKGROUND TO EXCEL Chapter 24. Introduction to Excel Chapter 25. Graphs and Charts in Excel Chapter 26. Excel Functions Chapter 27. Data Tables Chapter 28. Using Goal Seek and Solver Chapter 29. Working with Dates in Excel
SynopsisFinance is a topic that requires much computation, and in today's business world that computation is done almost entirely using Excel software. Despite this, existing finance textbooks continue to rely heavily on hand calculators. Business school students--whose background in Excel software is often weak when they come into finance courses--find that when they leave the academic environment they have to relearn both finance and the software. Addressing this issue, Principles of Finance with Excel is the only introductory finance text that comprehensively integrates the program into the teaching and practice of finance. Offering exceptional resources for students and instructors, the book combines classroom-tested pedagogy with the powerful functions of Excel software. Author Simon Benninga--one of the most recognized names in financial modeling--shows students how spreadsheets provide new and deeper insights into financial decision making. The second edition of Principles of Finance with Excel covers the same topics as standard financial textbooks--including portfolios, capital asset pricing models, stock and bond valuation, capital structure and dividend policy, and option pricing--and can therefore be used in any introductory course. However, it also introduces Excel software as it applies to finance students and practitioners. Throughout the book, the implementation of finance concepts with Excel software is demonstrated and explained. A separate section of PFE provides thorough coverage of all Excel software topics used in the book: graphs, function data tables, dates, Goal Seek, and Solver., Finance is a topic that requires much computation, and in today's business world that computation is done almost entirely using Excel software. Despite this, existing finance textbooks continue to rely heavily on hand calculators. Business school students--whose background in Excel software is often weak when they come into finance courses--find that when they leave the academic environment they have to relearn both finance and the software. Addressing this issue, Principles of Finance with Excel is the only introductory finance text that comprehensively integrates the program into the teaching and practice of finance. Offering exceptional resources for students and instructors, the book combines classroom-tested pedagogy with the powerful functions of Excel software. Author Simon Benninga--one of the most recognized names in financial modeling--shows students how spreadsheets provide new and deeper insights into financial decision making., Finance is a topic that requires much computation, and in today's business world that computation is almost entirely done using Microsoft Excel. Despite this, existing finance textbooks continue to rely heavily on hand calculators, and business school students - whose background in Excel is often weak when they come into finance courses - find that when they leave the academic environment they have to relearn both finance and Excel. The second edition of Principles of Finance with Excel comprehensively integrates Excel into the teaching of finance. It covers the same topics that standard financial textbooks cover, including portfolios, capital asset pricing models, stock and bond valuation, capital structure and dividend policy, and option pricing, and thus can be used in any introductory course. However, it also comprehensively introduces Excel as it applies to finance students and practitioners, including features like graphs, function data tables, dates in Excel, Goal Seek and Solver, and data manipulation. Simon Benninga, perhaps the most recognizable name in financial modeling, and author of an extremely successful modeling textbook, shows students how a spreadsheet can provide new and deeper insights into financial decision making. This book should appeal to a wide array of professors teaching courses on the principles of finance at the undergraduate level, as well as Master's programs in finance and business, and financial practitioners who want to develop or to refresh their Excel skills.
LC Classification NumberHG173.B463 2011