Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Book Description

Revised and updated to cover changes to all of Office's applications and productivity tools
Offers beyond-the-basics coverage of Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, databases, and desktop publishing
Covers Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, productivity tools such as Microsoft OneNote, and SharePoint
Thoroughly updated to cover the new Office interface as well as new features in each application

Customer Reviews:

Great Reference Book!.......2007-08-13

Being new to any Microsoft Office product, when I purchased Office 2007, I was pretty lost. Microsoft's on-line tutorials were useless, so I purchased Office 2007 for Dummies, thinking I would use it mostly as a reference. It was so well written and easy to understand, I actually read the entire book, and am looking forward to using Publisher and Power Point (I initially purchased Office for Word and Excel). I found working with Office 2007 easy after reading this book, and have had to utilize the book as a reference very minimally. Utilizing the table of contents and index, I can quickly locate what I am looking for. I am sure this book saved me hours of frustration by laying out the concept behind the Office 2007 design, and showing me how to quickly hunt for commands that I know are there (from reading about them in the book). I am sure my learning time was greatly reduced. Great job Peter Werverka!

All in One Desk Reference for Dummies-Office 2007.......2007-07-29

Excellent reference guide for the new Microsoft Office 2007. Without it I would have been stumbling around trying to figure out some of the functions as this new edition is very different.

Great Product!.......2007-07-10

Mail delivery was faster than I thought - and the reference book is being used every day. The manual we got with the program did not explain half of what I needed and this reference is easy and fast!

Extremely Helpful Book!.......2007-06-26

The Office 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies is very helpful for someone trying to weather the transition from previous versions of Microsoft Office to the new Microsoft Office 2007. This book not only covers common office applications, but gets into more detail for each program (Word, Outlook, Excel, Access, etc.) I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs an easy-to-follow guide to the new software.

good reference for Office 2007.......2007-06-02

I don't consider myself a "dummie" but this was the 1st book of the dummies series that I have purchased. I purchased it to get acquainted with the new features in Office 2007.

I like the fact that the book has so much information on all the programs in Office 2007; tips, reminders, and warnings.

I won't sit and read the entire book but see using it as I take on projects using the new programs. I did not purchase the on-line version but I am considering that option so I can access the information even when I am at school/work.

Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition: Includes CD

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Excelent book
I thought I did a review for this book immediately when I received it! It was really good! It's like the best textbook!
Strongly recommended to practitioner
Good Cookbook
Excellent book

Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition: Includes CD
Simon Benninga
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262024829

Book Description

Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft ExcelÂ®. In this sense, this is a finance "cookbook," providing recipes with lists of ingredients and instructions.

Areas covered include computation of corporate finance problems, standard portfolio problems, option pricing and applications, and duration and immunization. The second edition contains six new chapters covering financial calculations, cost of capital, value at risk (VaR), real options, early exercise boundaries, and term structure modeling. A new technical chapter contains a potpourri of tips for using ExcelÂ®.

Although the reader should know enough about Excelâ¢ to set up a simple spreadsheet, the author explains advanced ExcelÂ® techniques used in the book. The book includes chapters dealing with random number generation, data tables, matrix manipulation, and VBA programming. It also comes with a CD-ROM containing ExcelÂ® worksheets and solutions to end-of-chapter exercises.

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Excelent book.......2007-09-24

Is an excelent book to learn and undertand how to creat financial models in excel.

I strongly recomend it.

Romer iragorri

I thought I did a review for this book immediately when I received it! It was really good! It's like the best textbook!.......2007-09-16

Beninnga states things very clearly.
And the sophistication is great.
No matter what level you are in, it's good for you.
And these knowledge are really useful in real world!
I mean,I'm really gonna keep this book for myself after I finish the degree.

Strongly recommended to practitioner.......2007-09-03

The book has great practical value. It also applies to those who wish to implement financial models in other computing environment than Excel.

Good Cookbook.......2007-08-23

Very good on giving an introduction on many modeling techniques.
Exceptionally recommended for the new babe.

Excellent book.......2007-07-19

All students of finance must have one, It's great, If I'd have had it when I was student oh, I'd save a lot of time, now I'm teacher of finance and I recomend all my students to buy it.

Microsoft Office 2003: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (Shelly Cashman)

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Anyone can conquer their computer with this book
horrible
NO DISK FOR CLASS
Confusing, and at times inaccurate
Excellent Reference

Microsoft Office 2003: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (Shelly Cashman)
Gary B. Shelly , Thomas J. Cashman , and Misty E. Vermaat
Manufacturer: Course Technology
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ASIN: 0619254777

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This new second edition includes sufficient material for a first course on Office 2003 applications and includes a quick reference CourseCard on Office 2003 skills.

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Anyone can conquer their computer with this book.......2007-07-13

When I started college as an older student I had never been on a computer. This book which is used as a textbook at my college was a lifesaver. You will learn the basics that are needed for college or for employment. I have to say the diagrams/photos that accompany every step are what puts this book above all others. If the pictures did not match what was on my computer I could go back and see what I needed to change. I work as a mentor for women in a non-profit program and use this book to teach them the skills they will need in the workplace. I recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn or to polish their computer skills.

horrible.......2007-01-10

I bought this book for a class I was taking and it arrived in bad shape.First, it took forever to get to me and it arrived all beat up. The book had water damage. It looked like it was through a flood or something. This made me hesitant on whether to buy any used books again.

NO DISK FOR CLASS.......2006-07-05

THIS TEXT BOOK DOES NOT COME WITH THE REQUIRED DISK FOR COMPLETING PROJECTS REQUIRED FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM.

Confusing, and at times inaccurate.......2006-03-22

I used this book for an online class, books and test are bundled together and each time I took the test I had to challenge at lest one question, because it was simply wrong or inaccurate. Test quiz/test questions are non constructive for the most part. Many examples use non-standard fonts that hard to find, making assignments unnecessarily difficult to complete, in some exercises after following all instructions the correct result would not match the examples given again creating difficulty not needed. This books suited for online classes because it often gives instructions which are completely irrelevant in such environment. The books gives a good amount of tips and tricks about MS Office, books needs revising and grouping of lessons.

Excellent Reference.......2006-02-26

This reference book is a must have for anyone learning or needing the support for Windows 2003.

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA

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Absolutely Great!
A Cookbook for Financial Modellers
Not really satisfying
Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA
Highly Recommended

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA
Mary Jackson , and Mike Staunton
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ASIN: 0471499226

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This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.

The book adopts a step-by-step approach to understanding the more sophisticated aspects of Excel macros and VBA programming, showing how these programming techniques can be used to model and manipulate financial data, as applied to equities, bonds and options. The book is essential for financial practitioners who need to develop their financial modelling skill sets as there is an increase in the need to analyse and develop ever more complex 'what if' scenarios.

Specifically applies Excel and VBA to the financial markets
Packaged with a CD containing the software from the examples throughout the book

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Great!.......2006-01-11

Advanced Modeling is a fantastic book, and pretty easy to follow with relatively few coding errors. There are some books out there that have errors in the code that they use, which makes it difficult or someone to learn the techniques. Even for those without a solid background in VBA, this book can benefit you to start learning how to code properly. Anyone who is relatively proficient with Excel can definitely gain a new trick or two from reading this book. All you really need to start using this book is a basic understanding of finance concepts (e.g. portolio theory, capital budgeting, binomial options pricing, Black-Scholes, etc.). The techniques that are taught are also useful in other modeling exercises, and not necessarily just for finance-related topics.

A Cookbook for Financial Modellers.......2005-10-19

Yes, the book won't teach you CAPM, Black-Scholes, or much financial theory. But there is NO shortage of those books. There is a shortage of books with real-world Excel solutions to applying financial theory to data. I've had this book for a couple of years and have probably only used 10% of it, only because I don't have time, real business need, to do the rest. I sometimes take it to bed to read and dream of having the time to try out some of their other models. That's the only thing I can add to the other reviews here, the amount of love and passion for the subject put into this book. There's not one extra padded word or graphic in this book. Yes, if there was one book I'd have to take to a desert island with Excel and some financial data this would be it.

Not really satisfying.......2004-06-05

One of the main points of programming books is to help the reader understand the models being programmed. On this count, "Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA" fails miserably. There is very little explanation of the financial concepts and models. Anyone hoping to learn finance from this book will be very disappointed.

The result is a series of programming black boxes and ugly spreadsheets having only limited usefulness.

Although the level of his book is somewhat lower, Benninga's "Financial Modeling" book is much better at explaining the conceptual basis of financial models. A good programmer will be better off with Benninga than with Jackson-Staunton.

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA.......2004-03-15

This is probably the best book written on financial modeling in excel, definitely worth the $50. Comes with a great CD-ROM. The books strength is its illustration of financial models and implantation in Excel. Since the models focus on static solutions the book is probably of greater use in academics than in industry. It would be great if there was instruction about how to input real time data into Excel and implement the models dynamically. Of particular interest to me is the great VBA code given on the CD, namely the code to calculate autocorrelation, cubic spines, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. This alone was worth the 50 bucks.

There are some major deficiencies in this book. Noticeably absent topics include: bond portfolio immunization; swap pricing; forwards and futures hedging; the ARCH, GARCH and CHARMA models.

My background is in finance, mathematics and computer science. Unlike the guy above, I don't see any need for advanced mathematics in order to study this book. In fact I am sure you don't. The point is to make excel do it for you. However it will a lot easier for those who understand the finance and mathematics behind what they are telling excel to do. I am assuming that those who are considering this book most likely have taken at least one college level calculus course and one statistics course. But I don't think even that is necessary and definitely not stochastic calculus.

Highly Recommended.......2003-03-06

VBA is one of those tools I long knew I should be proficient in but never got around to learning. That is, not until I found this book. It makes it easy for a financial professional to quickly come up to speed and start coding VBA within spreadsheets. The fact that the focus is on financial applications means that you learn coding techniques that will be useful on the job. I highly recommend the book!

Financial Modeling Using Excel and VBA (Wiley Finance)

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Horrible Experience
GREAT book for learning excel and Finance
Not disappointed at all
No access to Excel files for eBook version
Not for professional

Financial Modeling Using Excel and VBA (Wiley Finance)
Chandan Sengupta
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471267686

Book Description

Comprehensive instruction on developing real-world financial models
This book, designed for self-study, classroom use, and reference, presents a com-prehensive approach to developing simple to sophisticated financial models in all major areas of finance. The approach is based on the author's 20 years of experience of developing such models in the business world and teaching a popular MBA class in financial modeling. The book assumes only basic knowledge of Excel and teaches all advanced features of Excel and VBA from scratch using a unique simple method. A companion CD includes all working versions of all the models presented in the book and additional useful reference material.
Chandan Sengupta (White Plains, NY) teaches finance in the MBA program at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business. Formerly, he was vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank for eight years and senior financial advisor for Mobil Corporation for 10 years. He is also the author of The Only Proven Road to Investment Success (0-471-44307-7).

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Customer Reviews:

Horrible Experience.......2007-03-09

I ordered this book on 1/30/2007 and todays date is 3/8/2007 and I am still waiting on my order...Actually, I am no longer waiting anymore because my school semester is more than half over and I no longer have a need for this book. TOO LATE!! I have actually called my bank and insisted that I be given back the money that Amazon has charged me for the services (the book) I have never received. Not a good experience at all!

GREAT book for learning excel and Finance.......2006-09-24

I really enjoyed using this book. The author did a great job of explaining the topics...well wortht the time and price.

Not disappointed at all.......2006-08-03

Great book, step by step approach, but still requires basic knowledge of Excel's core functions. The CD provided is definitely a plus.

No access to Excel files for eBook version.......2006-02-02

I spent a lot of money on this eBook only to find out that I would not receive the Excel files that go along with it. I am stuck either going through this book without the files that it uses throughout or shelling out even more money to buy a hardcopy version just for the attached CD.

Not for professional.......2006-01-29

Just for basic models. Not enough description on complex financial models.

Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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Office 2004 manual
make it work
Excellent book
A Must have for OS X users
Disappointing

Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
Mark Holt Walker , Franklin Tessler , and Paul Berkowitz
Manufacturer: Pogue Press
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ASIN: 0596008201

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Microsoft Office is the number-one selling software for the Mac; the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage applications are more dominant in the Mac world than they are among PC users. And Microsoft has greatly improved and enhanced Office 2004 to take advantage of the latest Mac OX features. In short, Microsoft Office for the Mac is wildly popular and better than ever. But as incredible and powerful it is, the Office 2004 suite comes without a single page of printed instructions. That means you're left to forge your own path through its countless innovative and useful new features and tools--until now. Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual is the manual that should have been in the box. It's the map that clearly and easily guides both beginners and veterans through this new suite. Mark H. Walker, Franklin Tessler, and Paul Berkowitz deliver all the practical information you need to master the basics and make the most of all four Office 2004 programs--Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage. It's four books in one! According to Microsoft's own research, the average Office user taps into less than fifteen percent of the suite's features. With first-rate writing, a handcrafted index, and the trademark humor and clarity of every Missing Manual, Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual will change that. Because this isn't an authorized book, Walker, Tessler, and Berkowitz candidly point out which features are gems in the rough worthy of your focused attention--and which are junkware that you best continue to overlook. Whether you're an Office beginner eager to master one or all of the applications in the suite or a longtime Office user looking for detailed coverage of what's new (and what's removed) in Office 2004 and hoping to implement power-user techniques for better and more efficient work, this funny and friendly, comprehensive guide will prove indispensable.

Customer Reviews:

Office 2004 manual.......2007-09-01

A big, heavy book that I wish I could read in bed but it weighs too much on my stomach. It has a lot of stuff and I will use it as a reference when I have a problem converting my old Word 2000 text to the newer 2004. I'm new to the Mac computers.

make it work.......2007-03-12

Frustrated by the continuing changes-for-the-sake-of-change by the software moguls?
Here's some help.
Highly readiable and still helpful book for the windows challenged who would just like to make it work.

Excellent book.......2007-02-19

I have never been disappointed by Missing Manuals and this one is no different. Many, many tips are revealed and locating these is very easy. Great book!

A Must have for OS X users.......2007-01-05

Great book for OS X users. You can easily troubleshoot with this book. Saves time and money. Should never have to call for manufacters help again.

Disappointing.......2005-12-26

This book was a disappointment. I had expected a reference of the caliber of David Pogue's Mac OS X Tiger manual. Among problem areas: a hard-to-navigate and incomplete index, fuzzy photo insets, and incorrect cross-references. The manual has the feel of something put together in a hurry without proper proof-reading, and borrowing heavily from canned sources. I learned some things but had to work harder to glean the information than I should have. I would not recommend this manual, unless it's the only game in town. I don't think it is.

Exploring Microsoft Office Plus Edition with additional Excel & Access coverage (Grauer Exploring Office 2003 Series)

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Exploring Microsoft Office Plus Edition with additional Excel & Access coverage (Grauer Exploring Office 2003 Series)
Robert T. Grauer , and Maryann Barber
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0132370360

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For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2003 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

Master the How and Why of Office 2003! Students master the "How and Why" of performing tasks in Office and gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems.

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Most useful Excel book that I have
The Best Excel Tool
Excellent reference
An Exctract From the Author's "Excel Bible"
extremely poor excuse for an expository book

Excel 2000 Formulas
John Walkenbach
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0764546090

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This one-of-a-kind reference delivers all the tips and techniques you need to maximize one of the most powerful spreadsheet tools: formulas. With clear explanations of operators, nesting, and functions plus hundreds of practical, real-world examples, spreadsheet expert John Walkenbach shares proven solutions for typical (and not-to-typical) Excel challenges. From working with dates to performing table lookups to creating array formulas, this in-depth guide will help you supercharge your spreadsheets -- and make the most of Excel.

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Most useful Excel book that I have.......2007-06-12

I work with Excel for more than 10 years, and during this time I have looked at, referenced and bought quite a number of Excel reference books. The book by Walkenbach is by far the most useful that I have. It includes reference to formulae that I did not know existed in Excel, many tips and shortcuts that make the work in finance not only bearable, but actually fun. It is a little bit basic on the financial side (actual implementation and logic of formulas), but the technical explanations are the most comprehensive. I consider myself intermediate/advanced user - and still - thanks to this book - find many new and useful features in Excel.
As for the CD, I have a habit of ordering a new one for each company where I work. The auditing of complex files (to name just one!) becomes so much easier with PowerPac.
A couple of notes:
- the book is arranged by formulas, not by the subjects. This assumes that you know what you are going to do, but want to find the best way of doing it. Not your "excel for business managers" type of book.
- currently I use Excel 2003; most of books advice is still applicable.
- certainly, not the book for the novices. The mega-formulas, VBA and arrays chapters are overwhelming

The Best Excel Tool.......2007-02-15

I have worked with and trained Excel (various versions) for over 10 years. I use this book any time I have to write complicated formulas. I recommend it to anyone who is working with Excel, especially formulas. My copy is very dog-eared and I have so many sticky tabs for frequently referenced sections that it looks like a porcupine book.

I will warn you that using this book may cause you to become an Excel-lover if you aren't already!

Excellent reference.......2006-04-06

This book is very good for learning your way around Excel and its formulas. I am fairly comfortable in Excel and still found the book extremely useful. There are many formulas that are explained which I did not know existed that have made me much more efficient within the program.

An Exctract From the Author's "Excel Bible".......2006-03-20

The Excel "Formulas" book is extractions from the same author's
"Excel Bible" book. Although it's easier to find information in this version, that convenience is not worth the extra cost for less information. I made the mistake of buying this version, while also having the "Bible", so I basically wasted my money.

extremely poor excuse for an expository book.......2005-12-31

I do all my serious mathematical work with Mathematica. However since some of my collegues use Excel for simple data presentation and analysis, I've recently started using Excel to be able to converse with my collegues.

Since most of the elmentary things that one would do with Excel are fairly simple, the built-in help capability is quite adaquate as a learning resource. However, as with any product, there are various useful tricks that go beyond the scope of the built-in help feature, which a good book could address. Because the reviews on Walkenbach's book were so uniformly good, I thought I would give it a try to get some deeper insights into Excel. Unfortunately I was quite disappointed.

Indeed the book contains a wealth of useful examples, and for that reason I gave it two stars. The major problem with the book however, is that it does a very poor (and often non-existent) job of explaining why the examples work.

A case in point is the example on page 402 which shows how to graph a function without populating values in a worksheet. There is a receipe in the text for accomplishing the task. However the receipe is so sketchy that I don't believe anyone would be able to produce a graph by just reading the text.

Fortunately there is a working example on the CD that comes with the book. And more fortunately, the example can be easily modified to produce graphs of other functions. This is all very good! However Walkenbach does not explain why the example works. Moreover, he makes no attempt to explain the obscure functions (OFFSET, SUBSTITUTE, EVALUATE) which the example is based on. Thus all the reader is left with is a template for accomplishing a task. If he keeps the template around, he should be OK. But if he's asked to develop the template on his own, from basic principles, he will not be able to do so.

The graphing example is not an isolated case in the book. Time and time again I found myself fustrated with poor explainations throughout the book -- few of which provide an understanding of why things work.

Understanding why things work is extremely important because without an understanding of how something works, it is impossible to devise solutions to situations that one has not encountered before. Cookbooks are useful for producing tasty meals, but one cannot become a great cook without understanding the principles of cooking. Similarily, this book is at best a reasonable cookbook, but a terrible expository work.

Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals

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goes somewhat beyond introductory Excel
WAY too Basic for Most
Hardly a Guide for any Professional in Finance

Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals
K. Scott Proctor
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ASIN: 0471661031

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A comprehensive guide to building financial models
Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel + CD-ROM provides beginning or intermediate level computer users with step-by-step instructions on building financial models using Microsoft Excel-the most popular spreadsheet program available. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets that track the course of the book and allow readers to build their own financial models. This comprehensive resource also covers important topics such as the concept of valuation, the concept of sensitivity analysis, the concepts of contribution margin and financial ratios and the basics of building and using a Capitalization Table.
K. Scott Proctor, CFA, is the Director of Investor Analytics at SNL Financial, a financial information provider.

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goes somewhat beyond introductory Excel.......2007-03-18

The book has some merit to a reader new to Excel, and who wants something a bit more indepth than the Idiots or Dummy's books on Excel. Proctor gives examples that do more with the spreadsheets, and you get to appreciate what Excel can provide.

But, as other reviewers have cogently pointed out, the book really is not for business professionals, despite what the title says. An accountant or businessperson should already have more background on financial modelling with spreadsheets that the level provided here.

WAY too Basic for Most.......2007-03-14

This work lacks substance for anyone remotely likely to have to do any real financial analysis. The examples are too simplistic to be of much practical value. If you have virtually no training or experience in Excel or accounting or finance then this book might be worth borrowing from a library to get you up to speed. If you have more than a week of experience in this area then it will sit on the shelf.

Hardly a Guide for any Professional in Finance.......2006-09-27

Chances are that if you are even thinking about financial modeling you have at least a basic understanding of excel and accounting. If that is the case, this book will prove to be almost completely useless. The modeling examples used within the book are so simplistic that if you have had half a semester in an accounting class you will have a more indepth understanding than what the book provides. Financial valuation is almost non existant as is sensitivity analysis, with each getting a short token chapter. The use of excel is at such a beginner level that I feel as if I did more indepth work with excel attempting to figure out my student loan payments. I have read the book from front to back and feel as if it has provided me with no useful manner in which to conduct any sort of modeling other than in an imaginary world where companies only sell one product, have almost no expenses, collect all their recievables within the next pay period and other such ludicrious assumptions. In addition there are several errors in the examples provided in the book. These made me chuckle since anyone who could catch them would not need the book and anyone who actually needs the book for its rudimentary "guidance" would be left bewildered and confused as to why they got the answers wrong.

Excel Applications for Accounting Principles (with Excel Templates Computer Disk)

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Excel Applications for Accounting Principles (with Excel Templates Computer Disk)

Excel Applications for Accounting Principles (with Excel Templates Computer Disk)
Gaylord N. Smith
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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ASIN: 0324270275

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Intended for any principles, financial, managerial, or computerized accounting course of accounting course where additional coverage of Excel is desired. The book also serves as a stand-alone core text for a computerized accounting course.

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Excel Applications for Accounting Principles (with Excel Templates Computer Disk).......2007-09-06

The book did not come with the CD (even though it was supposed to). It was noted on the packing slip that no CD was found. They should have contacted me instead of shipping the product. I had to pay shipping charges back to Owls Books. I WOULD NOT recommend using them.

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