Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel

What is missing from this book is Cd-rom containing all excel illustrations and questions used in this book.

This is the text for the FIN 4200 class taught by Dr. Mayes at Metro State College in Denver. When he wrote it he was frustrated with the lack of material available to teach under-grads what they needed to get employment in the business world or do more advanced work in grad school. Having survived Dr. Mayes' class I can say this book is an Excellent text for learning practical advanced spreadsheet techniques. It is NOT a replacement for a corporate finance text, doesn't represent itself as that, and the chapters are actually laid out to parallel Brigham's Intermediate Financial Management text which is the text used in corp finance at Metro. Each chapter represents approximately one week's topic, and it is necessary to do the problems at the end of each chapter to develop the skill needed to achieve his purpose. He also has all kinds of useful Excel type stuff on his website at (http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Emayest)

An excellent book that really shows you how powerful Excel can be. But, at the same time, it also teaches you about Finance using Excel. Very, very good. A regret: I would have liked more explanations, in general, on the financial concepts used in the book (especially in the last chapters).To Dr. Mayes: in your next book, the advanced one a reviewer speaks about, could you give more explanations in general on the financial concepts. Otherwise, keep using this great tool, Excel, or even Access 2000. I refer you to "Building Accounting Systems using Access 97" by James T. Perry, et al. I would think that you could use Access 2000 to apply financial analysis if Access is better suited than Excel, which I am not so sure; although Mr. Perry seems to give quite convincing arguments in favour of using Access instead of Excel.Thanks for your book that I really liked. I am now up-to-date with Excel and I am keen to learn more about Finance. Thanks to you :-)

This book got me a very comfortable start with spreadsheets, and it is interesting to experience how effective it is in combining spreadsheet proficiency with finance proficiency, as the author intends. Although somebody buying this book today may have concerns with its utility given its publication date, I've just begun using spreadsheets with Excel 2000 and I still found the book immensely useful. You may, however, find yourself yearning for the version of Excel current at the book's publication date simply so you might bypass any dealings with that notoriously --and incredibly-- stupid paperclip 'helper'.

Skip Accounting 101 and 102!! Forget Finance!! Go to the source! The authors make power Excel-using a breeze. Simply laid out, easy to understand. Enough financial theory to educate, but not enough to drown in. Gives you step-by-step templates of how to set up your worksheets. This book, in combination with Excel's Spinner control, lets you forecast budgets, cash flows, financial ratios, and more like a high-powered CFO. I can't wait for their advanced financial analysis book due out soon. I recommend this as a "must have" for anyone interested in money or any Excel power-user wanna-be's. I actually read this in my spare time just for kicks!!