Mastering Risk Modelling
Alastair Day
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Mastering Risk Modelling

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Risks are everywhere in the business world. Mastering Risk Modelling provides the busy financial manager with useful tips andpractical templates for assessing, applying and modelling risk and uncertainty in Excel. The book is designed specifically to be of help to you if you don’t have time to start from scratch – it will improve your abilities in Excel and give you a library of basic examples that you can use as a basis for further development.

It covers:

• Review of model design

• Risk and uncertainty

• Credit risk

• Project finance

• Financial analysis

• Valuation

• Options

• Bonds

• Equities

• Value at risk

• Simulation

This second edition contains brand new chapters:

• Revised models

• More material on credit risk modelling e.g. portfolios, bankruptcy models

• Shows dual 2003/2007 Excel key strokes

• More theory especially on statistics in Excel

• Basic statistics in Excel – tools and methods

• Capacity to borrow and repay

• Finding optimum mix of risk and return

• Fixed income risk models

• Visual Basic approach

Product Description
Risks are everywhere in the business world. Mastering Risk Modelling provides the busy financial manager with useful tips andpractical templates for assessing, applying and modelling risk and uncertainty in Excel. The book is designed specifically to be of help to you if you don’t have time to start from scratch – it will improve your abilities in Excel and give you a library of basic examples that you can use as a basis for further development.

It covers:

• Review of model design

• Risk and uncertainty

• Credit risk

• Project finance

• Financial analysis

• Valuation

• Options

• Bonds

• Equities

• Value at risk

• Simulation

This second edition contains brand new chapters:

• Revised models

• More material on credit risk modelling e.g. portfolios, bankruptcy models

• Shows dual 2003/2007 Excel key strokes

• More theory especially on statistics in Excel

• Basic statistics in Excel – tools and methods

• Capacity to borrow and repay

• Finding optimum mix of risk and return

• Fixed income risk models

• Visual Basic approach

Backcover
Mastering Risk Modelling is a practical guide to modelling. It’s designed to provide useful templates for applying risk and uncertainty. The book:

· Improves financial managers’ abilities with Excel

· Demonstrates a systematic method of developing Excel models for fast development and reduced errors

· Provides a library of basic templates for further development all on an enclosed CD for immediate use

This fully revised and updated guide is an essential companion for all those who work with risk model design and those who want to build more complex models.

New material in this edition includes:

· Thoroughly revised models

· More material on credit risk modelling such as portfolios, VaR and bankruptcy models

· Dual 2003/2007 Excel key strokes

· The use of statistics in Excel - tools and methods

· Advice on capacity to borrow and repay

· Finding optimum mix of risk and return

· Fixed income risk models

· Visual Basic approach

Conventions
Overview

1 Introduction

Scope of the book

Example model

Objectives of risk modelling

Summary

2 Review of model design

Introduction

Design objectives

Common errors

Excel features

Formats

Number formats

Lines and borders

Colour and patterns

Specific colour for inputs and results

Data validation

Controls – combo boxes and buttons

Conditional formatting

Use of functions and types of functions

Add-ins for more functions

Text and updated labels

Recording a version number, author, etc.

Using names

Pasting a names table

Comment cells

Graphics

Dynamic graphs to plot individual series

Data tables

Scenarios

Spreadsheet auditing

Summary

3 Risk and uncertainty

Introduction

Risk

Uncertainty

Response to risk

Methods

Summary

4 Project finance

Introduction

Requirements

Advantages

Risks

Risk analysis

Risk mitigation

Financial model

Inputs

Sensitivity and cost of capital

Construction, borrowing and output

Accounting schedules

Management analysis and summaries

Summary

5 Simulation

Introduction

Building blocks

Procedure

Real estate example

Summary

6 Financial analysis

Introduction

Process

Environment

Industry

Financial statements

Profit and loss

Balance sheet

Operating efficiency

Profitability

Financial structure

Core ratios

Market ratios

Trend analysis

Cash flow

Forecasts

Financial analysis

Summary

7 Credit risk

Cash flow

Cover ratios

Sustainability

Beaver’s model

Bathory model

Z scores

Springate analysis

Logit analysis

H-Factor model

Ratings agency

Summary

References

8 Valuation

Introduction

Inputs

Cash flow

Capital structure

Valuation and returns

Sensitivity analysis

Management summary

Summary

9 Bonds

Introduction

Bond prices

Interest rates

Yield

Duration and maturity

Convexity

Comparison

Summary

10 Options

Introduction

Options

Options example

Options hedging strategy

Black–Scholes

Simulation options pricing

Binomial model

Summary

11 Real options

Introduction

Project

Option to delay

Option to abandon

Option to expand

Summary

12 Equities

Introduction

Historic data

Returns summary

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