Author: John Charnes
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: wiley, finance, excel, ball, modeling, crystal, financial
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0471779725
ISBN-13: 9780471779728

Praise for Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball(r) and Excel(r) "Professor Charnes’s book drives clarity into applied Monte Carlo analysis using examples and tools relevant to real-world finance. The book will prove useful for analysts of all levels and as a supplement to academic courses in multiple disciplines." -Mark Odermann, Senior Financial Analyst, Microsoft "Think you really know financial modeling? This is a must-have for power Excel users. Professor Charnes shows how to make more realistic models that result in fewer surprises. Every analyst needs this credi

Author: John Kros
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: crystal, ball, access, cards, amp, @risk, modeling, business, decisions, spreadsheet
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0077212797
ISBN-13: 9780077212797

Spreadsheet Modeling for Business Decisions focuses on five fundamental topics of business decision modeling; emphasizing the effective communication of results to the appropriate business decision maker. The topics include spreadsheet modeling, data management and modeling, simulation and linear regression modeling, and decision making under uncertainty. The text strives to educate managers in the process of becoming more effective and efficient problem solvers by providing the most important and useful topics within business decision models while at the same time preparing students to apply

Author: Cliff Ragsdale
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Keywords: crystal, microsoft, rom, skillbuilder, ball, pro, card, access, printed, video, interactive, analysis, decision, amp, modeling, practical, introduction, revised, science, management, spreadsheet
Number of Pages: 820
Published: 2007-10-12
List price: $228.95
ISBN-10: 0324656637
ISBN-13: 9780324656633

Cliff Ragsdale is an innovator of the spreadsheet teaching revolution and is highly regarded in the field of management science. The revised fifth edition of SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS retains the elements and philosophy that has made its past editions so successful. New topics have been added as well as examples that are relevant to decision making in today’s business world. This version of SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS has been updated for use with Microsoft? Office Excel? 2007. It provides succinct instruction in the most commonly used management science

Author: Ofira Seliktar
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: fundamentalist, revolution, iran, administration, carter, crystal, ball, test, failing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-08-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275968723
ISBN-13: 9780275968724

With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels. Seliktar first examines how social science paradigms determine conceptualizations of political change, and then applies that analysis to understanding New Internationalism, the Carter administration’s foreign policy philosophy at the time of the Shah’s fall from power. Based in part on classified documents seized during the takeover of the American embassy, Failing the Crystal Ball Test is a valuable addi

Authors:David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Wi
Publisher: South-Western College Pu
Keywords: pro, rom, infotrac, ball, crystal, methods, business, quantitative
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $229.95
ISBN-10: 0324312652
ISBN-13: 9780324312652

This revision of QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR BUSINESS provides students with a conceptual understanding of the role that quantitative methods play in the decision-making process. This text describes the many quantitative methods that have been developed over the years, explains how they work, and shows how the decision-maker can apply and interpret data. Written with the non-mathematician in mind, this text is applications-oriented. Its "Problem-Scenario Approach" motivates and helps students understand and apply mathematical concepts and techniques. In addition, the managerial orientation motiva

Authors:David Alan Collier, James R. Evans,
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Keywords: rom, crystal, ball, pro, chains, value, management, goods, service, operations
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2006-07-05
List price: $236.95
ISBN-10: 0324179391
ISBN-13: 9780324179392

This exciting new textbook provides exceptional coverage of the essential topics taught in a modern operations management course. Its highly current coverage includes contemporary and relevant service theory and applications. Appropriate manufacturing applications and theory are included where relevant. The book’s modern/strategic approach addresses OM from a cross-functional perspective, which views operations as linked to all other functional areas of an organization, such as marketing and finance. The strategic approach takes into consideration the integration of technology and how i

Authors:Thomas S. Y. Ho, Sang Bin Lee,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: financial, finance, risk, management, corporate, institutions, capital, guide, modeling, applications, oxford, markets
Number of Pages: 735
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 019516962X
ISBN-13: 9780195169621

The essential premise of this book is that theory and practice are equally important in describing financial modeling. In it the authors try to strike a balance in their discussions between theories that provide foundations for financial models and the institutional details that provide the context for applications of the models. The book presents the financial models of stock and bond options, exotic options, investment grade and high-yield bonds, convertible bonds, mortgage-backed securities, liabilities of financial institutions -- the business model and the corporate model. It also describ