Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: A Practical Guide for Business Calculations (Market Editions) (Market Editions)

Provides financial managers, finance professionals and finance students with a quick, easy and practical guide to using Excel for financial mathematics. * Financial mathematics can be applied more quickly and easily in Excel than any other package, there is therefore demand for a book in this field. * Will improve financial managersвЂTM abilities with Excel and provide them with solutions to their financial problems. * Highly practical : includes a library of templates, exercises and solutions as an illustration of the methods. * Part of the highly respected and recognised __Mastering__ series. * Positioning: Will use simpler models to illustrate the formulas and methodology than __Mastering Financial Modelling__ and __Mastering Risk Modelling.__ * Benchmark: 1. Mastering Financial Calculations (Steiner). Similar book, but for professionals in financial markets, and with less emphasis on Excel. * Benchmark 2. Paul WilmottвЂTMs __Quantitative Finances__ (Wiley) is in this space but is a high-level academic text and is less practical and easy to absorb. The exercises and solutions in ours will significantly cut down learning time. Ours also focuses wholly on Excel, which is a standard for all financial managers and students, this is what they want and need to know.

Tools enabling managers to carry out financial calculations have evolved in the last 20 years from tables through calculators to programs on PCs and personal organisers. Today, the majority of those in finance have Excel on their desks and increasingly on their laptops or pocket computers.

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel provides a comprehensive set of tools and methods to apply Excel to solving mathematical problems. Alastair Day clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance backed up with simple templates for further use and development, together with numerous examples and exercises.

Providing an explanation of key financial formulas and subject areas, the book includes a CD which:

· allows you to work step-by-step through each of the chapters and examples

· shows the use of formulas using straight-forward Excel templates

· introduces examples and exercises for extension work

· provides a menu of basic templates for further development

· enables you to practise, develop and improve your efficiency and competence with Excel

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel will be invaluable in helping improve your Excel skills and understand the underlying financial concepts.

"Tools enabling managers to carry out financial calculations have evolved in the last 20 years from tables through calculators to programs on PCs and personal organisers. Today, the majority of those in finance have Excel on their desks and increasingly on their laptops or pocket computers. This book provides a comprehensive set of tools and methods to apply Excel to solving mathematical problems. Alastair Day clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance backed up with simple templates for further use and development, together with numerous examples and exercises."--Jacket