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Bestselling author Salih Neftci presents a fresh, original, informative, and up-to-date introduction to financial engineering. The book offers clear links between intuition and underlying mathematics and an outstanding mixture of market insights and mathematical materials. Also included are end-of-chapter exercises and case studies.
In a market characterized by the existence of large pools of liquid funds willing to go anywhere, anytime in search of a few points of advantage, there are new risks. Lacking experience with these new risks, firms, governmental entities, and other investors have been surprised by unexpected and often disastrous financial losses. Managers and analysts seeking to employ these new instruments and strategies to make pricing, hedging, trading, and portfolio management decisions require a mature understanding of theoretical finance and sophisticated mathematical and computer modeling skills.
Important and useful because it analyzes financial assets and derivatives from the financial engineering perspective, this book offers a different approach than the existing finance literature in financial asset and derivative analysis. Seeking not to introduce financial instruments but instead to describe the methods of synthetically creating assets in static and in dynamic environments and to show how to use them, his book complements all currently available textbooks. It emphasizes developing methods that can be used in order to solve risk management, taxation, regulation, and above all, pricing problems.
This perspective forms the basis of practical risk management. It will be useful for anyone learning about practical elements of financial engineering.
* Exercises and case studies at end of each chapter and on-line Solutions Manual provided
* Explains issues involved in day-to-day life of traders, using language other than mathematics
* Careful and concise analysis of the LIBOR market model and of volatility engineering problems
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great book.......2007-05-07
Prof. Neftci gave one of our mandatory course - Financial Engineering, in HEC Lausanne. This book is the reference book for this course. His lecture is great, a lot of jokes and funny stories as well as insights about financial engineering. However, I find out that the book is even better than his lecture.
Simply a must own for anyone with any use for Quant Finance.......2006-08-26
Neftci is one of those rare authors who can begin at the begining, explain his major point and logic without excessive jargon or short-cuts, and do so without sacrificing depth and substance.
In a field were the readable texts are for MBAs or elementary practioneers or for the initiated members of the priesthood, here is one of a few handful of authors (Wilmott and Joshi as well) that are both clear and serious, rigorous and accessible, insightful and a plerasure to read.
I can't praise this book too highly!.......2005-12-09
As someone who teaches derivatives to practitioners and in a Masters program, I can't praise this book too highly. It is clear, comprehensive and, most importantly, concentrates on practical applications. I was particularly pleased with the chapter on repo, which is usually underestimated in importance, without requiring a whole, specialist book.
For someone with a fundamental, but non-quantitative background in financial markets (MBA or CFA level), this is the ideal place to go next before more specialised and quantitative books. The advantage of having studied this book first will be to have a clear picture of the forest for the trees.
My only (small) criticism is that the book would have been even better if it had included a chapter (or two) on the multi-tranche asset backed security structure followed by cash and then synthetic CDOs. I do hope that might be rectified in the next edition.
Bravo!
This is one of the top books on quantitative finance.......2005-11-22
I am a student of Prof Neftci in the Applied Math for Finance MS program at Baruch College. He is a great teacher and has written this wonderful book. This is the text book for the Calibration course he teaches at baruch.
The best thing about it is in the practical approach it is written with. It tries to explain the finance as interpreted by practioners like traders...the engineering of finance rather than the science of it. Knowledge of basic parobability thoery, martingales, PDE and some stochastic calculus is assumed. The book itself has less emphasis on mathematical rigour but there are plenty of other references for that.
The strength of this book is in its practical utility in understanding the market and the rational behind the products that exist in it and the priciples of pricing and hedging those.
Chapter 11 on the Fundamental Asset prcing theory is a gem and is the workhorse for pricing many of the products like swaps or swaptions.
Great!.......2005-11-20
A wonderful book with a great didactic approach! Very clear but never mundane. The best introduction to the field so far. It's only drawback is the sometimes slightly unintuitive notation.
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Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting, 2/e is ideal for those schools wanting to cover 12 chapters in their advanced accounting course. Typically, this course covers 5-6 consolidations chapters, two foreign currency chapters, two partnership chapters, and 2-3 governmental and not-for-profit chapters. Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting boasts the same great assets that have made the authors' longer Advanced Accounting a success, including the incorporation of the latest FASB pronouncements, the integration of skill preparation for the new CPA exam, and of course, great authorship.
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Good for undergraduates.......2006-07-01
The course topics are very useful for undergraduates and a good introduction to Corporate Finance and Accounting.
However, I would recommend the latter Chapters i.e. 9,10 and 11,12 be placed in other books to allow more emphasis on the earlier chapters. This probably will make the book also good for graduate courses/students especially now with the 150 credit hour accounting programs.
Other than that, its a well developed book!!!
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Advanced Accounting, 8e, by Hoyle/Schaefer/Doupnik updates a successful and comprehensive textbook renowned for its integrated real world examples, student orientation, and popular writing style. The eighth edition adds the latest developments in consolidations, international and governmental accounting, and the CPA exam to produce a textbook that continues to lead the way in currency and readability.
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GREAT BUY.......2007-09-27
The book came on time and in great condition. I am very happy with my purchase. Thank you!
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Improve your grade and save time with the most reader-friendly text on the market! ADVANCED ACCOUNTING makes learning easy by bringing real-world accounting topics to your level. A flexible, step-by-step approach makes advanced concepts and issues easy to master. The text includes numerous features designed to make the text easy to read and use. Some of these features include Learning Objectives, Topic Outlines, Chapter Overviews, Case in Point Boxes, Practitioner Perspective Boxes, Historical Perspective Boxes, International Perspective Boxes, and a literary, anecdotal, personal growth, or humorous chapter-opening quotation for each chapter.
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impossible book.......2003-12-03
As a graduate student in accounting, I've found this book to be the most difficult and the most frustrating to read amongst my collection. This book is certainly not helpful to visual learners as there is mostly very dull text explanation of the subject material. Also, the few in-chapter examples worked out are very difficult to decipher and are poorly explained, so you're left on your own to learn how to do the end of chapter problems.
Finally a great book on Advanced Accounting.......2001-06-27
I have never come across a texbook that makes consolidations easy----until now! It seems that most advanced accounting texts are written by Ph.D's to impress other Ph.D's. This one is different. It actually explains in a concise manner all important aspects of advanced accounting in a way that is easy to understand and apply. Unfortunately, it was written in 1995 and obviously doesn't contain some of the more recent exposure drafts on consolidations and derivative accounting for foreign exchange forward contracts.
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This readable examination of accounting theory and practice offers extensive real-world examples and illustrations throughout—from corporations such as Microsoft, Coca Cola, Hershey Foods, IBM, General Motors, and General Electric. A book-specific Website is available that contains less-frequently covered topics, additional exercises, links to additional references, and more.
Is updated for the latest FASB pronouncements including Business Combinations, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. Focuses on parent company accounting using the full or complete equity method in coverage of consolidations. Offers separate coverage of parent company accounting under the cost and incomplete equity methods. Adds a chapter on governmental and not-for-profit accounting.
The perfect reference for accounting professionals looking to check facts or brush up on their skills.
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Need more examples -- rely on website?.......2007-07-15
As a student I found this book's transaction examples to be somewhat limited. For instance, in the existing-foreign-currency-transaction hedge examples, both cash-flow and fair-value, only A/R adjustments are treated, there are no *buy side* transactions with A/P illustrated. There are also a lot of minor errors that are distracting.
A better text is available.......2006-07-05
As background for dissusion of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" text, 9th ed.: I took advanced accounting at one university last summer (which covered much of advanced accounting, but no accounting for not-for-profit organizations). Due to scheduling availability, I am taking advanced accounting at a different university this summer...this class WILL cover not-for-profit accounting issues, which is why I am taking it. We used the Hoyle, Schaefer, Doupnik "Advanced Accounting" 7th ed. text last year, and even though the concepts were difficult, the examples assisted greatly, and the text was clear, organized and without noticeable errors.
I wish the same could be said of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" 9th ed. Currently in my study of the fourth chapter, I find the text frequently wanders off topic, and contains surprising errors. For example, on page 106 (Chapt.4), it makes a math error ($30,000 - $1,500 x 80% = $22,500). My calculator indicates the answer should be $22,800. On page 107 it attributes a $93.5k elimination to "Entry b" described on page 106, when the amount actually belongs to "Entry c", described on the same page. This type of error requires the reader to perform a lot of additional work to get to the bottom of the information to be acquired. These are just two of the numerous issues I have uncovered in study of only four chapters. So far, the text compares poorly to the Hoyle, et. al. product, sadly, (which is why I am providing this warning) and I am not looking forward to the rest of the current summer semester!
Please, Prentice Hall, thoroughly review and edit this text before the next edition, and give students their money's worth.
errors all over.......2004-05-16
This text should correct all the errors before it published.
solution for the excercises.......2000-07-01
it is a very good book actually, but i'm having some difficulties in solving the exercise, so i think this book need a complementary book or some kind of manual or solution. But if there is, I would like to be informed about where i can get that kind of book. Thank U!
Advanced accounting.......2000-04-05
I used this book as my self-study material and I benefited from this book a lot. I would recommend using it either as a textbook for Advanced Accounting course or as a reference book for professionals. Here are the few points that I would like to share with you:
1. Logical order The order to display the topics in this book is logical and consistent. This is important for self-study users. At the beginning of each chapter, there's always a paragraph or two summarize the main points that are going to present in the chapter. This gives the reader a whole picture.
2. Clear explanation and examples The book uses easy explanatory languages and the examples are very representative. Each example, the author is showing us every detail steps, so it is easy to follow.
3. Relevant exercises and problems. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that can help to reinforce the concepts. Most questions can be found directly from the material. There are also exercises and problems that are related to the topic presented in the chapter. I remember there is an accounting book I used before that the problems required more knowledge than the chapter actually covered. This not the case in this book. Some of the examples in the chapter could be used as quick reference while working on the problems, too.
The only thing I would recommend, if I need to find some, is that I hope there could be more real life issues mentioned in the book. In this way, readers can relate the knowledge to daily life even closer.
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ADVANCED ACCOUNTING offers the most authoritative, conceptually strong, and comprehensive coverage of advanced accounting topics of any text on the market. Completely updated to reflect the latest FASB pronouncements, it is an excellent preparation resource for the CPA exam. ADVANCED ACCOUNTING also provides the tools students need to pursue professional careers in a global economy. This is the only text on the market to utilize the horizontal approach to consolidations worksheets, the format most commonly used in the business world.
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Advanced Accounting.......2006-11-03
The text itself is fairly understandable, current and consistant. The problems are mostly with the exercises, problems and on-line supplements and quizes, especially for the government and to a lesser extent, the non-profit accounting chapters. Not all of the wordings and answers in these areas have been updated to the current GASB 34 and 35 statements that the text is teaching to. This is a difficult topic to begin with and having these conflicts makes it that much more difficult to grasp the material correctly.
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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.
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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!
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The seventh edition of Advanced Financial Accounting is a comprehensive and highly illustrated presentation of the accounting and reporting principles used in a variety of business entities. The complete presentations of worksheets, schedules, and financial statements allow students to see the development of each new topic. The book's building block approach introduces concepts with simple examples and then gradually introduces complexity, allowing students to easily keep pace with the material. Because the course often serves students who plan to take the CPA exam, much of Advanced Financial Accounting's end-of-chapter material is provided in the formats as tested on the CPA exam. A wide variety of multiple-choice questions, cases requiring written presentations, and other objective answer format materials helps students even further to reinforce their mastery of text concepts.
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Adv. Accounting Review.......2007-07-26
Although helpful, this book was not as good as some of the study guides I have used in the past.
advanced financal accounting book.......2007-02-23
The product I recieved was mis represented it made it sound like it was the actual book. It did not say that it was only the study guide. When I was searching for the item it said it had it in paperbacka which was cheaper so I ordered it then I recieved not what I wanted.
INFORMATIVE.......2006-05-07
This book covers special accounting entities that are not covered in Intermediate Accounting. This book has become helpful in the different organizations I have been employed. Although the material in this book is a lot - it is necessary. Has an excellent section for Not-for-Profit accounting.
Could Have Been Better.......2003-06-30
I liked this textbook because it is nice and clean and uncluttered inside, however I think that the content could have been better. I had trouble with the first chapter having to do with business combinations in that every time a journal entry was recorded, I had no idea whether the author was referring to the common stock of the purchasing company or the common stock of the selling company. After a while, I finally figured it out, but I thought the problem could have been avoided by being more clear. There are many more examples that I have like this one. I may be being picky about the book seeing as how I took this course via independent study, so I did not have the ability to ask an instructor specific questions. I just think that the authors could have done a better job being more clear on many things. In the end, I did end up getting a A in the course!
Good value for the money.......2000-01-19
I have used this book in conjunction with Gleim's CPA review books in preparation for FARE section of the CPA exam. Excellent supplement especially if you look for technical aspects of purchase/pooling accounting. The chapters on consolidation are truly outstanding. Very thorough and comprehensive. The only drawback as with many other textbooks is the lack of answer keys at the end of the chapter. Overall, I would definitely recommend getting it.
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- Really quite good. Four stars only because it is so specialized.
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Really quite good. Four stars only because it is so specialized........2006-07-02
This is not a book in advanced financial topics such as options or mathematical evaluations of arcane financial topics. It is a very interesting and well written book on various topics managers need to know to well manage the financial aspects of their organization. Of course, since it is about finance there are numbers and some equations, but nothing very complicated. What I especially enjoyed about the book was its consideration of alternatives, including negative outcomes, for managers making decisions. It also discusses conflicts of interest among various parties and the managers role and responsibilities in dealing with them and the considerations one must take as a shareholder, manager, or creditor (they all have different interests at times).
The book has nineteen chapters grouped into five parts. The parts are: I) Corporate Finance (a review of your basic corporate finance course - or a brief overview before you dive in a bit deeper water in this book), II) Analysis of the Firm and the Valuation of Equity and Debt, III) Managing Equity and Debt, IV) The Markets for Corporate Control (a fascinating portion of the book), and V) is just one chapter, Organizational Architecture, Risk Management, and Security Design.
This is a long book and some parts are quite detailed. Depending on your background, you can dive into it here or there looking for various topics. Since there is no glossary nor very many helps along the way, the book assumes a basic understanding of finance and corporate structure and finance (though the first part helps establish some groundwork in the latter). If you have had the core course from a good program in finance and corporate finance, you will handle this book well. If you enjoyed those courses, you will likely find this book quite interesting as I did.
Each chapter has its own problems and questions (selected answers are provided at the end of the book for a few of these in each chapter), a section containing issues for creative thinking, and a few projects for analysis. Some of the chapters have an appendix or two discussing the more numeric aspects of the chapter, but none are too deep. For example, Appendix A in chapter 10 on corporate bonds discusses yield to maturity and duration. Again, you probably covered this in your core course on finance. If not, you get the basic treatment here.
I think this is a worthwhile book for business professionals involved in finance in any way. It is on my shelf of books on corporate finance.
Good content, but try to get the Hardcover edition.......2006-03-20
I bought this book for my Advance Corporate Finance class.
There are a lot of interesting case studies. However, if you have the option, buy the hardcover version. The paperback version is in poor print quality (worse than any of my textbooks); not to mention the cover wears out very quickly.
Corporate Finance.......2005-07-25
This book is required reading for a Finance Class at the doctoral level. It is comprehensive but may require a review of financial termonology from student. The book does not contain a glossary of terms.
Mistitled?.......2004-01-03
This is a most interesting and instructive textbook, but I am not entirely clear just what its intended audience might be; I suspect it may be mistitled. From my perspective, the title "Advanced Corporate Finance" suggests some fairly heavy duty mathematics. In fact, there is nothing here of that sort; indeed the level of math is no higher and perhaps lower than you would find in a standard "basic finance text.
What we have here instead is a very helpful collection/summary of material on the institutional framework of corporate finance -- the kind of stuff you might wish your students knew before they ever started the technical part. Short of that, it has another good use: it's what you might call a "bottom drawer" book, i.e., one of the books the professor keeps in the bottom drawer to deploy for classroom examples -- thereby garnering an undeserved reputation for breadth of knowledge. This can only be bad news for the publishers: it means they sell only one copy rather than a whole classroom full of copies.
I can only conclude that the publishers understand their own business better than I understand their business: maybe there is a market for whole classrooms full of copies, and more power to them if they find it. Meanwhile, I cherish my bottom drawer copy and I look forward to many more occasions when I can stun and astonish with the authors' good help.
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Learn everything you need to know for creating dynamic, robust, more secure documents with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and the workarounds you need for creating and sharing powerful documents and template. Ideal for users with more advanced experience using either the 2007 Microsoft Office suites or earlier editions of Microsoft Office, this comprehensive guide moves beyond the basics. You will learn how to use Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create exactly the document you need. Youll learn how to create templates and custom macros and how to build custom add-ins. Youll even learn how to exploit new Extensible Markup Language (XML) document formats.
Customer Reviews:
disappointed.......2007-10-06
The content of this book is fine, but the quality of the book itself is poor. Pages are falling out already and I've only used it a few times.
Paste Excel into Word?.......2007-08-24
This book is the only Word/Excel related handbook that actually discusses the merits of various ways of pasting Excel charts into Word documents (pp. 142-151). Wempen's Using Word book discusses it and gets it wrong. The Word Inside Out book doesn't bring it up.
I'm rating this book on this fact alone, so it is not a complete assessment.
Excellent for Basic Reference.......2007-07-14
I want everyone in the office to have a copy (and actually read it!). I would recommend this for students, as well.
More than just a "How To".......2007-05-26
As a Microsoft Office programs training instructor in my own business, and a part-time Office Programs Instructor for two local Community College Workforce Dept's., I find the Advanced Microsoft Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out to be a very comprehensive book that is very helpful to even experienced users, as well as new users. The written and graphic details are very simple, yet concise, and make the learning process much easier. It is a book that I not only recommend to my students and clients, but, it also has a home on my own desk.
In one word - praesto .......2007-05-20
Stephanie understands MS Office software. But, better than that, she understands people. People want results. People need properly created documents. People need help.
Ms. Krieger's other book was a knock-out (Microsoft Office Document Designer). In less than 200 pages, she addressed the task of proper document design. In this book, she takes this to a much higher level.
As a full-time software trainer, I have seen that people only use a small percentage of the features that programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint offer. Is this due to a lack of ability? No, it's due to a lack of knowledge.
Stephanie's book will provide the reader with the knowledge required to assemble a "proper" document. Filled with advice, information, and the perfect mix of programs, the pages glow with a light that removes the sometimes dark areas of document creation.
For users of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint who do not read this book, they will continue to struggle, using "band-aids" to hide the cuts and bruises their documents contain. For those who read and apply the information in Stephanie's book, they will not need a trip to the emergency room to save their creation.
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