Corporate and Project Finance Modeling

Preface

Corporate and Project Finance Modeling: Theory and Practice is intended to be a comprehensive guidebook for anyone who is interested in creating and/or interpreting and/or understanding financial models. Through compiling many years of experience in creating, reviewing, and teaching corporate finance, project finance, acquisition, and real estate modeling, I describe in this book how you can master many difficult modeling problems and how you can build highly structured models from the ground up. Flexible, efficient, and stable model structures are explained along with describing unique solutions that address complex issues. In explaining model design as well as detailed programming techniques, Corporate and Project Finance Modeling can help you to become a much better modeler, whether you are just beginning or are very experienced and want to take your skills to a really high level. By covering how to build, analyze, and present results from a variety of alternative financial models, the book will provide an understanding of why particular modeling features are generally included in one kind of model but not in others. It is hoped that you will be able to find creative ways to borrow subtle concepts from issues addressed in different modeling applications and apply them to your own models.

Corporate and Project Finance Modeling explains how you can build flexible, transparent, and accurate financial analyses, but it does not simply document techniques that are commonly ...