Comments on: Modeling Structured Finance Cash Flows with Microsoft Excel: A Step-by-Step Guide.Book & CD-ROM

By: Baran Kaya

Baran Kaya — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:30:35 +0000

Teaches how to build up a cash flow model for big companies such as banks and insurance companies. Not useful for small companies, but even for small companies gives some idea for building a cash flow model.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Max Dama

Max Dama — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:58 +0000

This is a good book. It is well-written, gives both the theoretical side and implementation, and gives tips on excel. I am a beginner but it was easy for me to follow. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn excel for i-banking or some other finance job.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: TM

TM — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:04:20 +0000

Keith’s book does an excellent job at helping both new analysts to MD’s in understanding modeling of complex master tapes (models). If you need to know how to structure a fixed or floating rate transaction this book will give you key tools to understand, build and read strats, term sheets, and OC data. Many of the functions and formulas that are explained are used in real working models but in additon to that this book explains key concepts in the structured finance world. Unlike other books this book has a much more active learning style and really gets you involved.

I look forward to the day when Keith writes a book focusing on CMBS, I will defintely buy that one also.

TM

CIB

CMBS
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Alejandro Lonngi Canseco

Alejandro Lonngi Canseco — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:01:13 +0000

It is a one good forst step if you want to learn how to model a structured finance product. With a very easy language and taking you by the hand the author gives you all the basis to learn something that many people consider complicate or very difficult
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Francesco Martino

Francesco Martino — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:44:14 +0000

The book explains very well the building and works of a very huge excell worsheet, for professionals it will be a great and interesting reading, and sometimes it will be like a great novel, when you can’t stop reading

and always want to go to the next chapter before leaving it.

For begineers it will be a little hard to understand the concepts and the meanings of each chapter, but it will help too.
Rating: 4 / 5