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12. The Importance of Documentation

Jack Avon1  
(1)
Riberac, France
 

In this chapter, I will examine the process of providing user documentation for models. Without question, one of the most neglected stages of building models is documentation, because often it is performed toward the end of the modeling project and subject to time constraints. This is a short chapter but a very important one because documentation in financial modeling is far too neglected. I want to make sure that you have a firm understanding of why documentation should be considered just as important as any other stage in modeling.

Providing documentation in models

The financial ...

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