The three previous editions of Financial Modeling have received a gratifyingly
positive response from readers. The combination of a “cookbook,” mixing
explanation and implementation using Excel, has fulfilled a need in both the
academic and the practitioner markets from readers who realize that the implementation of the finance basics typically studied in an introductory finance
course requires another, more heavily computational and implementational
approach. Excel, the most widely used computational tool in finance, is a
natural vehicle for deepening our understanding of the materials.