| Description |
1 online resource (668 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the Second Edition ; Authors ; CHAPTER 1: An Overview of Financial Planning and Modeling; 1.1 WHAT IS PLANNING? ; 1.2 WHAT IS FINANCIAL PLANNING? ; 1.3 THE INPUT TO FINANCIAL PLANNING ; 1.3.1 The Goals of Financial Decisions ; 1.3.2 The Decision Alternatives |
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1.3.3 The Links between Decisions and Goals 1.3.4 Resources and Constraints ; 1.3.4.1 Company-Specific Resources and Constraints ; 1.3.4.2 Industry-Specific Constraints ; 1.3.4.3 Constraints Imposed by the Economy ; 1.3.4.4 Constraints Imposed by the Legal and Political Environment |
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1.3.5 The Planning Horizon and the Amount of Detail 1.3.5.1 The Length of the Planning Horizon ; 1.3.5.2 The Amount of Detail ; 1.4 INGREDIENTS OF A FINANCIAL MODEL ; 1.4.1 What Is a Model? ; 1.4.2 What Does a Model Do? ; 1.5 HOW TO DEVELOP THE MODEL ; 1.5.1 The Decision Problem |
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1.5.1.1 What Is the Problem? 1.5.1.2 What Questions Must Be Answered? ; 1.5.1.3 What Is the Time Horizon of the Problem? ; 1.5.1.4 How Important Is the Problem? ; 1.5.2 The Output ; 1.5.2.1 What Kind of Information Is Needed? ; 1.5.2.2 How Will the Information Be Evaluated? |
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1.5.2.3 What Kind of Detail Is Necessary? 1.5.2.4 Who Will Use the Information? ; 1.5.3 The Structural Input ; 1.5.3.1 What Is the Goal? ; 1.5.3.2 What Are the Decision Alternatives? ; 1.5.3.3 What Are the Linkages between the Decisions and the Goal? ; 1.5.3.4 What Are the Constraints? |
| Summary |
A properly structured financial model can provide decision makers with a powerful planning tool that helps them identify the consequences of their decisions before they are put into practice. Introduction to Financial Models for Management and Planning, Second Edition enables professionals and students to learn how to develop and use computer-based models for financial planning. This volume provides critical tools for the financial toolbox, then shows how to use them tools to build successful models. -- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
1.5.3.5 What Is the Planning Horizon? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Finance -- Computer simulation
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Corporations -- Finance -- Mathematical models
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Finance -- Computer simulation
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Finance -- Mathematical models.
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Corporations -- Finance -- Computer simulation
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Corporations -- Finance -- Mathematical models
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Finance -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Daley, John P
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| ISBN |
9781498765046 |
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1498765041 |
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