<p><b>A concise and practical guide to financial modeling in Excel</b><p>In <i>The Essentials of Financial Modeling in Excel: A Concise Guide to Concepts and Methods</i>, veteran quantitative modeling and business analysis expert Dr. Michael Rees delivers a practical and hands-on introduction to financial modeling in Excel. The author offers readers a well-structured and strategic toolkit to learn modeling from scratch, focusing on the core economic concepts and the structures commonly required within Excel models. <p>Divided into six parts, the book discusses the use of models and the factors to consider when designing and building models so that they can be as powerful as possible, yet simple. . Readers will also find: <ul><li>The foundational structures and calculations most frequently used in modeling, including growth- and ratio-based methods, corkscrews, and waterfall analysis</li><li>Walkthroughs of economic modeling, measurement, and evaluation, and the linking of these to the