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The McGraw-Hill Small Business Software Series
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill (01 April, 1984)
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MCS MODULARE COMPUTER & SOFTWARE SYSTEME: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series)
Published in Ring-bound by Icon Group International, Inc. (31 October, 2000)
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McKinsey DCF Vaulation 2000 Model(to accompany Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, Third Edition)
Published in CD-ROM by Wiley (28 July, 2000)
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Good but bad Excel supportI liked this book. In Russia it is one of the most popular books on valuatuion. But when I can get the perfect excel support for Investment Valuation by Aswath Damodaran or good web support for Valuation Methods and Shareholder Value Creation by Pablo Fernandez, I ask the authors, why don't they put supporting material in disk? I think that the price of their sowtware ($94.50) is too high compairing with the book ($56 with discount), because there is no supporting materials - only 1 spreadsheet (from my point of view does not conform to McKinsey, as the leader of consulting business). I hope, for the 4-th edition we will have a good excel support.
Adequate, but not OriginalI hoped that McKinsey would have something new to say on this subject. There are two corporate finance texts and various finance books that cover the ground better or at least as well, so it is hard to see why this book was written.
In light of recent corporate shenanigans with off-balance sheet products, it is unforgiveable that this book doesn't address how lack of value can be disguised using off-balance sheet products. Total return swaps, an off-balance sheet financing tool, isn't discussed, and credit derivatives, another off-balance sheet tool aren't even discussed. For coverage of these topics and offshore vehicles, read "Credit Derivatives" by Tavakoli.
An excellent resource for DCF applications, but...This book provides excellent information about the DCF Valuation process. The reader will learn how to develop the model and where to input the various data, as well as understand how to justify some of the assumptions such as cost of equity. The disk that accompanies the hardcover addition will be very useful to some practitioners, although analysts with strong modeling skills will likely want to create their own spreadsheet. The book, however, is not a comprehensive guide to valuation, as it does not discuss other methods such as the peer group comparison. Nonetheless, it is an excellent reference book on the topic of DCF Valuation, and it belongs on every financial analyst's desk.
Maximizing Business Performance through Software Packages: Best Practices for Justification, Selection, and Implementat
Published in Hardcover by St. Lucie Press (25 November, 2002)
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Mastering Risk Modelling
Published in Paperback by Pearson Education (29 December, 2003)
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Bargin Bin OnlyMastering Risk Modelling has a few tricks and references that makes the book an excellent candidate for a bargain bin pickup. There is just enough information to make a newbie dangerous and not enough to add to the practioner's body of knowledge.
This book is not the place to start if you are new to spreadsheet modelling and/or risk modelling. The CD included is severely limited with the bulk of examples void of formulas and code. However, the book is not explicit enough to be a good "How To" and the risk methodologies are not explained in depth enough for a newbie to put into practice.
If you are a practitioner, you will find some nifty tricks, reminders, and some cut'n'paste vba that would take you ~15 min to write. However, the book is simply not sophisticated enough to put into practice.
This book is not the place to start if you are new to spreadsheet modelling and/or risk modelling. The CD included is severely limited with the bulk of examples void of formulas and code. However, the book is not explicit enough to be a good "How To" and the risk methodologies are not explained in depth enough for a newbie to put into practice.
If you are a practitioner, you will find some nifty tricks, reminders, and some cut'n'paste vba that would take you ~15 min to write. However, the book is simply not sophisticated enough to put into practice.
The book is most suited to a recent MBA with some time on his/her hands to goof around in excel; an intern tasked with building a spreadsheet quickly; a practitioner that needs a jumpstart or wire frame for a task; or, perhaps, an accountant or finance geek that wants to understand business line concepts better.
Practical guideThe book covers a comprehensive aspect of everyday modelling requirements for practitioners. Since it is very dependent on Excel spreadsheet for all the modelling, having the sample template of the chapters on your PC will help a lot. Unfortunately, the CD that comes with the book cannot be install into my PC that runs on WinXP. Error message of not enough disk space will come up upon installation (my PC has 8G of free space)......sad. Hope the publisher will come up with a patch for the CD.
Mastering Quicken 99
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Sybex Inc (01 October, 1998)
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Mastering Quicken 99 shows you how to use the latest version of the most popular personal-finance program on the market. It's a sort of super-manual that thoroughly explains how to use every single feature of Quicken 99.
Like the program itself, this book focuses on "registers" for checking accounts, consumer loans, assets, and credit cards. Nelson explains how to set up and maintain these accounts, and then shows how to convert their contents to tax-form entries at the end of the year.
If you want to learn how to store options transactions--something Quicken can do if you follow a special procedure--Mastering Quicken 99 can't tell you what you need to know. However, there's a solid amount of information in these pages about using Quicken to track business finances, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll (but most people who need to track business finances do so with a different program).
Coverage of securities transactions is good, but somewhat narrowly focused. If you want to know how to record stock, bond, and mutual fund transactions, this book has the information you need. It also explains obscure transactions--like capital-gains distributions from mutual funds--in some detail. --David Wall
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Excellent book for the basics.I recently purchase Mastering Quicken 99 expecting to find some of the complicated techniques of debiting and crediting multiple accounts in one transaction. For the price, I didn't get what I needed. The book does go into good detail to explain the basics of using Quicken. I have been using Quicken since the beginning and really like the product; however, I need examples and explainations relative to long term loans made to other people. The book doesn't include information on using the new Invoice feature and Mr. Nelson advises that they were working with a bata version of Quicken 99. It's a shame, I'd like to receipt an invoice that will credit a loan account using a split transaction to account for P&I. Maybe next time I go to the book store, I'll have more time to read for the detail I need. I would enjoy sharing my circumstances with Stephen Nelson or Cathy Kenney.
Mastering Quicken 98
Published in Paperback by Sybex Inc (01 October, 1997)
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Stephen L. Nelson's Mastering Quicken 98 imparts a terrific amount of product and financial knowledge with clear, clean prose. This book, and its predecessor about Quicken 6, contains as much useful financial advice as it does instructions on how to use Quicken. The only downside to this book is that, at 748 pages, you may need to use the index to get to the information you really need.
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Not worth a nickelI have found this book to be useless, and not a bit better than the Quicken help facility. Every single time I have tried to use this book, I have not even been able to find what I'm looking for in the index. Save your money.
More perfunctory than anticipated and contains errorsAt least one window (Create Scheduled Transactions) is missing a button description (GROUP). The book does not address this at all. I could not find out whether it is possible to archive data in the registers and then remove it to reduce the number of online transactions. Does not address performance or configuration optimization as I thought a "Mastering" book would. I anticipated more in-depth coverage which would satisfy an audience already familiar with Quicken.
Mastering Quicken 6
Published in Paperback by Sybex Inc (01 September, 1996)
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There are many financial tasks, such as planning a budget or tracking tax deductions through the year, that you may want to do but just don't have the time or expertise to tackle. In Mastering Quicken 6, Stephen L. Nelson not only tells you how to perform these tasks with Quicken, but he also offers financial advice on the task. He includes many interesting tips on Quicken use and personal finance throughout the book. If you want to use Quicken 6 to manage your portfolio or do the accounting for your small business, this book includes separate, large, useful sections on these topics.
Mastering Quicken 5 for Windows
Published in Paperback by Sybex Inc (01 November, 1995)
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Mastering Quicken 4 for Windows
Published in Paperback by Sybex Inc (01 October, 1994)
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