Practical Financial Modelling, Second Edition: A guide to current practice

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Author: Jonathan Swan
• Publisher: CIMA Publishing; 2 edition (June 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750686472
• ISBN-13: 978-0750686471

This second edition of Practical Financial Modelling is vital tool for all finance and management professionals whose work involves the production and development of complex spreadsheets and financial models. The author bridges the gap between the Excel manual and financial literature with a wealth of practical advise and useful tips.

The book identifies good practice and highlights those areas which are prone to error and inconsistency resulting in a refreshingly simple approach to building and using financial models suitable for novice and experienced modellers. By using practical worked examples the most effective ways in which problems can be solved are explored. Key themes include: model structure, audit formulae and functions and model use.

New to the second edition:

Instructive information on Excel 2007 and its enhanced modelling functions and feature; Risk controls in developing and using financial models; Test-yourself modelling problems and applied examples in every chapter; Substantial information related to reporting and charting techniques and an appendix devoted to parallel comparison of how-to in Excel 2003 and 2007.

. Instructive information on Excel 2007 and its enhanced modelling functions and features
. Risk controls in developing and using financial models
. Test-yourself modelling problems and applied examples in every chapter
. Substantial information relating to reporting and charting techniques
. An appendix devoted to a parallel comparison of how-to in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007

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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Author: Matan Feldman, Arkady Libman
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470047011
• ISBN-13: 978-0470047019

Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.

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Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups

• Author: Tom Y. Sawyer
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430218983
• ISBN-13: 978-1430218982

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Learn the business thinking behind financial modeling and execute what you know effectively using Microsoft Excel. Many believe that sales and profitability projections shown in financial models are the keys to success in attracting investors. The truth is that investors will come up with their own projections. The investor wants to understand the assumptions, structure, and relationships within the modeling of a startup. If the investor is satiated, the entrepreneur has successfully demonstrated a complete understanding of the business side of the enterprise. Pro Excel Financial Modeling provides the keys necessary to learn this thinking and to build the models that will illustrate it.

• Step–by–step approach to developing financial models in Excel
• Extensive case studies and Excel templates provided

What you’ll learn

• Learn the business thinking behind successful financial modeling aimed at investors.
• Communicate effectively with investors.
• Explore advanced modeling with Microsoft Excel, including cost of information technology, customer return on investment, cost of sales and marketing, cost of goods sold, team and staffing, profit and loss.
• Discover best practices for modeling using Microsoft Excel.
• Anyone who wants to think critically about their business models, communicate these models to investors, and successfully build them in Microsoft Excel will find the information they need within this material. Additional readers who will benefit include entrepreneurs, technologists, and developers who wish to start a business utilizing their technology ideas, and business and technology consultants. 

Essentials of Economics

• Author: Bradley R. Schiller
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Higher Education; 6th edition (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071101462
• ISBN-13: 978-0071101462

"Essentials of Economics" is the market leader for the one-semester survey course. In just about 400 pages, it provides a solid introduction to the core concepts of economics with an emphasis on real-world examples and current events. "Essentials" has earned its popular success because, unlike other books on the market, it is free of the abstract and complex theory that requires more time than this course allows. Instead, the text is clean and concise, with many examples of significance to students today, including Headlines and Policy Perspectives that use current events to help illustrate the topics discussed. This real-world policy emphasis is a distinctive feature of Schiller's text and is integral to its dominance of the survey text market.

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Essential Economics (Economist Essentials)

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Author: Matthew Bishop
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press; 1 edition (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861975805
• ISBN-13: 978-1861975805

Here is the essence of economics, arranged alphabetically for easy reference and written with the clarity and authority for which "The Economist is renowned. "Essential Economics contains the substantive information that those in business, finance, and other professions need to understand. For many, "the joy of economics is a contradiction in terms. Yet in a compelling introduction, Matthew Bishop, business editor at "The Economist, offers a lively explanation of what economics is about and covers its applicability in modern business. This is followed by an expansive A--Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of economics as well as some of its more-arcane aspects. Packaged attractively in a paperback with flaps, "Essential Economics is a clear, concise reference that complements any business library.

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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

• Hardcover: 906 pages
• Author: Ludwig Von Mises
• Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education; 4 Rev Sub edition (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572460210
• ISBN-13: 978-1572460218

Human Action, Mises' seminal work, lays out the principles of economics, political economy and the social sciences with a meticulous logic which has prompted many to hail it as the "bible" of economics. This fourth revised edition, features a new hardcover and a new foreword and index by Bettina Bien Greaves.

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Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects: Issues for Developing Countries

• Paperback: 404 pages
• Author: E. J. DaSilva, C. Ratledge, A. Sasson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 5, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521122287
• ISBN-13: 978-0521122283

This book deals with the important issues involved in developing biotechnologically based industries in developing countries. The science and most of the techniques are well established, and it is often possible to obtain the desired finance. This book however, examines the sorts of choices that a developing country has to make to go ahead with projects and their likely socio-economic consequences. Each of the chapters in this book is written by experts in their field and discusses the current biotechnologically-based industries and their state of development, their suitability for various economies, and the problems associated with developing them. Other chapters discuss environmental questions and further socio-economic factors that need to be considered in order to bring about successful wealth creation in these countries.

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A Course in Monetary Economics: Sequential Trade, Money, and Uncertainity

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Author: Benjamin Eden
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (October 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631215662
• ISBN-13: 978-0631215660

Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade is an insightful introduction to the advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of the implications of the different models. The exposition is clear and logical, providing a solid foundation in monetary theory and the techniques of economic modeling. The text is rooted in the author's years of teaching and research, and will be highly suitable for monetary economics courses in both the upper-level undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Author: Robert E Evenson, Vittorio Santaniello, David Zilberman
• Publisher: CABI; First edition (January 7, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851996183
• ISBN-13: 978-0851996189

There are currently many controversial socioeconomic issues concerned with the development and implementation of agricultural biotechnology. This book presents selected revised and edited papers from the fourth and fifth meetings of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Italy in 2000 and 2001.

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A Student's Guide to Economics

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Author: Paul Heyne
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Inst (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882926447
• ISBN-13: 978-1882926442

Paul Heyne, one of the nation s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society 151 a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles of economics. The sweep of economic thinking is presented here with reference to the great economists and important schools of thought.

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