ABOUT THE BOOK

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Investments ensures that readers come away from reading it with a reasonable degree of comfort and proficiency in applying elementary mathematics to several types of financial analysis. All of the methodology in this book is geared toward the development, implementation, and analysis of financial models to solve financial problems encountered by both finance students and practitioners. The book: • analyzes theoretical and practitioner-oriented models along with the mathematics required to construct them • presents the most essential mathematical techniques and their applications to financial analysis • provide dozens of practical applications, examples, and end-of-chapter exercises with detailed solutions • demonstrate key spreadsheet applications of the mathematical models in chapter appendices • emphasizes practical applications of modeling technique.