This book focuses on active learning by teaching students how to build and estimate financial models using Excel so they understand the steps involved, rather than being handed completed spreadsheets. Ready-To-Build Spreadsheets The accompanying CD provides ready-to-build spreadsheets for every chapter that dictates step-by-step instructions to the student. Since the CD provides instructions within each spreadsheet, so students do not have...

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Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add–ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add–in Development in C/C++ – Applications for Finance is a how–to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add–ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add–ins to financial...

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The most popular securities among investors throughout the world are the shares of commonstock or equity of a firm. These shares represent the residual claim on the firm’s earnings. Theterm residual claim implies that the earnings of the firm belong to the common shareholdersof the firm after satisfying all other claims. These claims are employees’ wages/salaries,interest and principal payments to creditors who have advanced short- and...

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Dynamic Hedging is the definitive source on derivatives risk. It provides a real-world methodology for managing portfolios containing any nonlinear security. It presents risks from the vantage point of the option market maker and arbitrage operator. The only book about derivatives risk written by an experienced trader with theoretical training, it remolds option theory to fit the practitioner's environment. As a larger share of market...

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This title sets out to equip the lay reader with a clear and thorough explanation of financial derivatives and how they work. It features an introduction to the entire realm of derivatives, utilising a range of real life examples to provide a broad outlook on the subject matter which is global in perspective. It also presents a lucid conceptual background to derivatives by avoiding unecessary technical details.

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Elasticity is a measure ofthe ratio ofthe percentage change in one variable to the percentage change in another variable. It is commonly used as a measure of how sensitive the quantity demanded is to changes in the price of a good. After learning all about price elasticity of demand, learn how to apply this concept to calculate and interpret the cross elasticity of demand, the income elasticity of demand, and the elasticity of supply. You...

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The treatment in Analysis of Equity Investments: Valuation is intended to communicate a practical equity valuation process for the investment generalist. Unlike many alternative works, the book integrates accounting and finance concepts, providing the evenness of subject matter treatment, consistency of notation, and continuity of topic coverage so critical to the learning process. The book does not simply deliver a collection of valuation...

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This popular text, publishing Spring 1999 in its Second Edition, introduces the mathematics underlying the pricing of derivatives. The increase of interest in dynamic pricing models stems from their applicability to practical situations: with the freeing of exchange, interest rates, and capital controls, the market for derivative products has matured and pricing models have become more accurate. Professor Neftci's book answers the need for a...

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The interests and incentives of managers and shareholders conflict over such issues as the optimal size of the firm and the payment of cash to shareholders. These conflicts are especially severe in firms with large free cash flows--more cash than profitable investment opportunities. The theory developed here explains 1) the benefits of debt in reducing agency costs of free cash flows, 2) how debt can substitute for dividends, 3) why...

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For new students of accounting, entry-level accounting professionals, and business professionals whose own work relates directly to the numbers on the ledger, a basic understanding of core accounting functions and documents is critical. Accounting Demystified provides a simple and straightforward description of universal elements of the accounting process, plus accessible tutorials in creating, interpreting, and using financial statements....

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A History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial Revolution, authors Homer and Sylla provide a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies. Underlying the analysis is their assertion that "the free market long-term rates of interest for any industrial...

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The calculation of equity value is typically characterized as a projection of future payoffs and a transformation of those payoffs into a present value (price). A good deal of research on pricing models has focused on the specification of risk for the reduction of the payoffs to present value but little attention has been given to the specification of payoffs. It is noncontroversial that equity price is based on future dividends to...

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