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Mastering Python for Finance
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Mastering Python for Finance

by James Ma Weiming
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Excel for finance

The spreadsheet application in the Microsoft Office suite was designed for statistical, engineering, and financial data management. In finance, Microsoft Excel is used as a handy tool for bond traders and an integral part of banking operations to task automations using VBA. For example, built-in Excel functions, such as TBILLYIELD and DURATION, helps you calculate the yield of a T-bill and the Macaulay duration of a bond and displays these values onto a cell.

Excel supports the use of COM to extend the functionality for custom tasks. This is achieved with the use of COM add-ins as an in-process COM server. With VBA, a wrapper can be created for the COM add-in function so that the COM component can be used as a worksheet cell formula ...

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