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Mastering Risk Modelling: A Practical Guide to Modelling Uncertainty with Excel | 
| Author: Alastair Day
Publisher: FT Press
Category: Book
List Price: $62.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 607448
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.7 x 1
ISBN: 0273659782
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
UPC: 785342659788
EAN: 9780273659785
ASIN: 0273659782
Publication Date: January 8, 2004
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Condition: Pap/Cdr. 2003 Paperback. Orders usually ship on or before next business day. May have highlighting. We send best copy available.
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
pRisk modeling is now a core skill for successful managers inside and outside finance. Alastair Day's iMastering Risk Modelling/i shows managers exactly how to build Excel-based models for identifying, quantifying and managing risk--models that provide clear, accurate decision-making guidance that can be used with confidence throughout the enterprise. An ideal follow-up to Day's bestselling iMastering Financial Modelling/i, the book brings together risk modeling theory and practice more effectively than ever before. Day presents extensive tips and methods for developing Excel-based risk applications--including practical guidance on designing models and layering complexity on top of basic models. His series of Excel templates will jumpstart your own modeling, eliminate the need to start from scratch, and provide powerful insights for improving any model. All models are provided on an accompanying CD-ROM. /p
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Book on Risk Modeling February 22, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I find the book extremely useful and it is a good supplement to standard textbooks on risk modeling. The book discusses the different principles of building models, and then explains how the same can be applied to risk modeling. br /This book should not be treated as a stand-alone book on risk modeling and must be used as a supplement to some theoretical book on risk modeling. br /If you already have the book on "Mastering Financial Modeling: by the same author, then you may not find this book as useful.
 Bargin Bin Only June 17, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mastering Risk Modelling has a few tricks and references that makes the book an excellent candidate for a bargain bin pickup. There is just enough information to make a newbie dangerous and not enough to add to the practioner's body of knowledge. brThis book is not the place to start if you are new to spreadsheet modelling and/or risk modelling. The CD included is severely limited with the bulk of examples void of formulas and code. However, the book is not explicit enough to be a good How To and the risk methodologies are not explained in depth enough for a newbie to put into practice. brIf you are a practitioner, you will find some nifty tricks, reminders, and some cut'n'paste vba that would take you ~15 min to write. However, the book is simply not sophisticated enough to put into practice. pThe book is most suited to a recent MBA with some time on his/her hands to goof around in excel; an intern tasked with building a spreadsheet quickly; a practitioner that needs a jumpstart or wire frame for a task; or, perhaps, an accountant or finance geek that wants to understand business line concepts better.
Practical guide December 4, 2003
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book covers a comprehensive aspect of everyday modelling requirements for practitioners. Since it is very dependent on Excel spreadsheet for all the modelling, having the sample template of the chapters on your PC will help a lot. Unfortunately, the CD that comes with the book cannot be install into my PC that runs on WinXP. Error message of not enough disk space will come up upon installation (my PC has 8G of free space)......sad. Hope the publisher will come up with a patch for the CD.
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