Amazon.com description: Product Description: Providing a hands-on approach to a variety of finance topics, this book exposes a wide range of financial problems to which Excel can be effectively applied and furnishes exercises and examples that can be modified to address specific needs. Presented are such basic elements of financial analysis as present value, capital budgeting, and project selection, as well as advanced techniques such as portfolio analysis, measurement of performance, asset pricing theories, and fixed income securities. Various derivative instruments are explored-futures, options, fixed income derivatives, and asset-backed securities-and applications such as investment strategies, risk management, real option analysis, and valuation are addressed.