Spreadsheet Modeling in Corporate Finance

For nearly 20 years, since the emergence of PCs, Lotus 1-2-3, and Microsoft Excel in the 1980’s,
spreadsheet models have been the dominant vehicles for finance professionals in the business world to
implement their financial knowledge. Yet even today, most Corporate Finance textbooks rely on
calculators as the primary tool and have little (if any) coverage of how to build spreadsheet models. This
book fills that gap. It teaches students how to build financial models in Excel. It provides step-by-step
instructions so that students can build models themselves (active learning), rather than handing students
canned “templates” (passive learning). It progresses from simple examples to practical, real-world
applications. It spans nearly all quantitative models in corporate finance.