A serious source of information for those looking to reverse engineer business deals

It's clear from the current turbulence on Wall Street that the inner workings of its most complex transactions are poorly understood. Wall Street deals parse risk using intricate legal terminology that is difficult to translate into an analytical model. "Reverse Engineering Deals on Wall Street: A Step-By-Step Guide" takes readers through a detailed methodology of deconstructing the public deal documentation of a modern Wall Street transaction and applying the deconstructed elements to create a fully dynamic model that can be used for risk and investment analysis.

Appropriate for the current market climate, an actual residential mortgage backed security (RMBS) transaction is taken from prospectus to model by the end of the book. Step by step, Allman walks the reader through the reversing process with textual excerpts from the prospectus and discussions on how it directly transfers to a model. Each chapter begins with a discussion of concepts with exact references to an example prospectus, followed by a section called "Model Builder," in which Allman translates the theory into a fully functioning model for the example deal. Also included is valuable VBA code and detailed explanation that shows proper valuation methods including loan level amortization and full trigger modeling.

Aside from investment analysis this text can help anyone who wants to keep track of the competition, learn from others public transactions, or set up a system to audit one's own models.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Existing technical books are too lengthy and dull to be suitable as references for beginning and intermediate Excel users. The author cuts through the clutter and provides precise, useful information users want and need. This Microsoft Excel book will take you to the next level and you to be quicker and more comfortable with Excel. When you reach that next level, you will also feel better about yourself This book is designed to increase your productivity and self-esteem.

Easy to use and equipped with a variety of functions, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice when it comes to crunching numbers, building charts, and analyzing tables. But most users only scratch the surface of the program's functionality, especially the built-in formulas designed to make everyday operations and real-world tasks more efficient. "Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas" demonstrates the secrets of Excel functions through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. Topics include logical, text, date and time, basic statistical, mathematical, financial, database, and lookup and reference functions as well as conditional formatting with formulas, array formulas, and user-defined functions. This book's extensive examples make it an excellent tutorial for all Excel users who want to understand, create, and apply formulas. Intermediate and advanced users will find "Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas" an excellent reference to many of the program's advanced formulas and functions.

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For arithmetic-based courses in Business Mathematics.

Designed as a true teaching text, this book guides students through clear, detailed explanations of the principles and practices of business mathematics. Its flexible organization and presentation make it suitable for a variety of teaching situations—from a traditional classroom lecture to individually paced instruction. The Fifth Edition has been updated and improved presenting the latest business situations and techniques. Students are given the opportunity to participate more actively in their learning.

This book helps you readily become familiar with Excel's power techniques and systematically tap into more and more of that power day by day.

There are so many power techniques built into Excel and Win 95 that you are in serious danger of missing many of them. This book comes with an appendix listing all the functions, their syntax, and their arguments, which helps you turn loose their considerable power.

This book is written for those who are not familiar with computers, computer terminology or other spreadsheets. It is designed so that the user can start to use Quattro Pro immediately without having to wade through a 700 page manual of details and technical information. The book is written in scenario style, bringing in the different elements of the program as you would normally seek to use them. The first four chapters offer a step-by-step approach, in plain English, that introduces you to Quattro Pro capabilities quickly and easily. Later chapters discuss ways to edit entries, manipulate data, and handle blocks of data elegantly and easily, as well as how to graph and print data and use them in a database.

Microsoft Excel 2010 Programming by Example with VBA, XML and ASP is a practical how-to book on Excel programming, suitable for readers already familiar with the Excel user interface. The book introduces programming concepts via numerous multi-step, illustrated, hands-on exercises. More advanced topics are introduced via custom projects. From recording and editing a macro and writing VBA code to working with XML documents and using classic ASP to access and display data on the Web, this book takes you on a programming journey that will change the way you work with Excel. Completely updated for Excel 2010, this book provides information on performing automatic operations on files, folders, and other Microsoft Office applications. It also covers proper use of event procedures, testing and debugging, and programming advanced Excel features such as PivotTables, PivotCharts, and SmartTags. Thirty chapters loaded with illustrated hands-on projects and exercises that tell you exactly where to enter code, how to debug it, and then run it. Each exercise/project step is clearly explained as it is performed.Table of Contents1. Automating Worksheet Tasks with Macros. 2. Exploring the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). 3. Excel VBA Fundamentals. 4. Using Variables, Data Types, and Constants. 5. VBA Procedures: Subroutines and Functions.6. Decision Making with VBA. 7. Repeating Actions in VBA. 8.Working with Arrays. 9. Working with Collections and Class Modules. 10. VBE Tools for Testing and Debugging. 11. Conditional Compilation and Error Trapping. 12. File and Folder Manipulation with VBA. 13. File and Folder Manipulation with Windows Script Host (WSH). 14. Using Low-Level File Access. 15. Using Excel VBA to Interact with Other Applications. 16. Using Excel with Microsoft Access. 17. Event-Driven Programming. 18. Using Dialog Boxes. 19. Creating Custom Forms. 20. Formatting Worksheets with VBA. 21. Context Menu Programming and Ribbon Customizations. 22. Printing and Sending E-mail from Excel. 23. Programming PivotTables and PivotCharts. 24. Using and Programming Excel Tables. 25. Programming Special Features. 26. Programming the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). 27. HTML Programming and Web Queries. 28. Excel and Active Server Pages. 29. Using XML in Excel 2010. 30. Calling Windows API Functions from VBA. Index.

Your guide to quickly turn data into results. Transform your skills, data, and business-and create your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Two business intelligence (BI) experts take you inside PowerPivot functionality for Excel 2013, with a focus on real world scenarios, problem-solving, and data modeling. You'll learn how to quickly turn mass quantities of data into meaningful information and on-the-job results-no programming required! Understand the differences between PowerPivot for Self Service BI and SQL Server Analysis Services for Corporate BI Extend your existing data-analysis skills to create your own BI solutions Quickly manipulate large data sets, often in millions of rows Perform simple-to-sophisticated calculations and what-if analysis Create complex reporting systems with data modeling and Data Analysis Expressions Share your results effortlessly across your organization using Microsoft SharePoint Authors' note on using Microsoft Excel 2016: This book's content was written against Excel 2013, but it is useful and valid for users of Excel 2016 too. Excel 2016 introduces several new DAX functions and an improved editor for DAX without changing any existing behavior. In other words, all of the concepts and examples explained in this book continue to work with Excel 2016.

Updated look at financial modeling and Monte Carlo simulation with software by Oracle Crystal Ball

This revised and updated edition of the bestselling book on financial modeling provides the tools and techniques needed to perform spreadsheet simulation. It answers the essential question of why risk analysis is vital to the decision-making process, for any problem posed in finance and investment. This reliable resource reviews the basics and covers how to define and refine probability distributions in financial modeling, and explores the concepts driving the simulation modeling process. It also discusses simulation controls and analysis of simulation results.

The second edition of "Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel" contains instructions, theory, and practical example models to help apply risk analysis to such areas as derivative pricing, cost estimation, portfolio allocation and optimization, credit risk, and cash flow analysis. It includes the resources needed to develop essential skills in the areas of valuation, pricing, hedging, trading, risk management, project evaluation, credit risk, and portfolio management. Offers an updated edition of the bestselling book covering the newest version of Oracle Crystal BallContains valuable insights on Monte Carlo simulation--an essential skill applied by many corporate finance and investment professionalsWritten by John Charnes, the former finance department chair at the University of Kansas and senior vice president of global portfolio strategies at Bank of America, who is currently President and Chief Data Scientist at Syntelli Solutions, Inc. Risk Analytics and Predictive Intelligence Division (Syntelli RAPID)

Engaging and informative, this book is a vital resource designed to help you become more adept at financial modeling and simulation.

In this completely updated edition covering Excel 2019, previous versions, and Office 365, Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas 5/E demonstrates the secrets of Excel through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. Easy to use and equipped with a variety of functions, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice when it comes to crunching numbers, building charts, and analyzing tables. The book's extensive examples and added video tutorials make it an excellent resource for all Excel users who want to understand, create, and apply formulas. Experienced users will also find Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas 5/E an excellent reference for many of the program's advanced formulas and functions. The text is easy to understand with numerous step-by-step instructions and the actual, ready to use, Excel screenshots of the input and output from the formulas. The book includes companion files with video tutorials, over 250 worksheet files of examples for numerous functions, formulas, and all the figures from the text. FEATURES: Includes companion files with video tutorials, over 250 Excel worksheet examples, and all of the figures from the text (including 4-color) Completely updated to cover Microsoft Excel 2019, previous versions, and Office 365 Saves hundreds of hours with the latest Excel tips, worksheets, and shortcuts Written by a proven author with Microsoft Valued Professional(MVP) status The Companion Files are also available for downloading from the publisher by emailing proof of purchase to [email protected].

The trusted series of workbooks by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards continues with A Microsoft Excel (R)Companion to Political Analysis. In this new guide, students dive headfirst into actual political data working with the ubiquitous Excel software. Students learn by doing with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in varied subfields of political science, including American politics, comparative politics, law and courts, and international relations. Chapters cover all major topics in political data analysis, from descriptive statistics through logistic regression, all with worked examples and exercises in Excel. No matter their professional goals, students can gain a leg up for their future careers by developing a working knowledge of statistics using Excel. By encouraging students to build on their existing familiarity with the Excel program, instructors can flatten the statistics learning curve and take some of the intimidation out of the learning process. Gain lost time usually spent troubleshooting software to provide students with a smooth transition into political analysis.

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