This compact text presents the fundamental principles of accounting and finance using Excel® as a tool for preparing and analyzing Balance Sheets and Profit & Loss Statements. The book also helps in learning the basics of Excel® and different functions it provides to format financial statements. The Third Edition of this book emphasises on accounting ratios that have been explained in detail by using the Balance Sheet of Ingersoll Rand India Ltd. for the year ending March 2014. The author uses the Balance Sheet of Ingersoll Rand India Ltd. to help students relate accounting principles to real-life situations. The topics analyzed include day-to-day problems that managers encounter such as forecasting balance sheets, investments in stock markets, management of receivables and inventory, EMIs, cost of discounting schemes, and designing finance schemes to promote a new product. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which includes 92nd Annual Report of Ingersoll Rand India Ltd. and the exhibits given in Chapters 4 to 6. This updated edition will be useful primarily to postgraduate students pursuing courses in management and commerce disciplines. It will also be of immense help to the professionals indulged in model-building and developing a decision support system on Excel® worksheets. The book is recommended by AICTE for PGDM course. The link is www.aicte-india.org/modelsyllabus.php

This guide for financial professionals helps in the full preparation of financial statements and management reports using Microsoft Excel, regardless of the size and complexity of the organization. Tips are provided on creating financial statements in a single workbook and presenting, printing, or mailing them on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, based on either a calendar or fiscal-year reporting system. Also discussed is how to analyze financial statements and create comparable five-year balance sheets and income statements as well as how to add graphs and ratio analysis pictures to cells. Advanced Excel features such as using the Pivot Table reports to analyze financial statements, summarize totals using running numbers, add percentages, and add quarterly calculations are also presented. Bonus CD-ROM includes: * Complete searchable eBook - easy to browse and print * Sample Financial Statements in Excel workbook file * Excel workbook files contain all data and formulas covered in the book * Additional bonus: A number of free Add-Ins

A proven guide to building financial models from scratch The Second Edition of Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel + CD-ROM provides beginning and intermediate level computer users with step-by-step instructions on building financial models using Microsoft Excel 2007-the most popular spreadsheet program available. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets that track the course of the book and allow you to build your own financial models. This comprehensive resource also covers important topics such as the concepts of valuation, sensitivity analysis, and contribution margin. Offers accessible guidance on building financial models using Excel 2007 Illustrates how to integrate financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows Covers the basics of building and using a Capitalization Table Discusses how to best present a financial model Incorporating financial models into business decisions has become an essential element of good business practice, and this book will show you how to excel at this endeavor.

Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft® Excel® visualizes spreadsheets as an effective management tool both for financial analysis and for coordinating its results and actions with marketing, sales, production and service operations, quality control, and other business functions. Taking an integrative view that promotes teamwork across corporate functions and responsibilities, the book contains dozens of charts, diagrams, and actual Excel® screenshots to reinforce the practical applications of every topic it covers. The first two sections—Financial Statements and Cash Budgeting—explain how to use spreadsheets for: Preparing income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements Performing vertical and horizontal analyses of financial statements Determining financial ratios and analyzing their trends and significance Combining quantitative and judgmental techniques to improve forecasts of sales revenues and customer demands Calculating and applying the time value of money Managing inventories, safety stocks, and the allocation of resources The third and final section—Capital Budgeting—covers capital structure, the cost of capital, and leverage; the basics of capital budgeting, including taxes and depreciation; applications, such as new facilities, equipment replacement, process improvement, leasing versus buying, and nonresidential real estate; and risk analysis of capital budgets and the potential impacts of unforeseen events. Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft® Excel® takes a broad view of financial functions and responsibilities in relation to those of other functional parts of modern corporations, and it demonstrates how to use spreadsheets to integrate and coordinate them. It provides many insightful examples and case studies of real corporations, including Wal- Mart, Sun Microsystems, Nike, H. J. Heinz, Dell, Microsoft, Apple Computer, and IBM. Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft® Excel® is the ideal tool for managing your firm’s short-term operations and long-term capital investments.