ABOUT THE BOOK

Quantitative methods for finance and investments ensures that readers will gain a reasonable degree of comfort and proficiency in applying elementary mathematics to financial analysis in a variety of areas. All of the methodology in this book is geared toward the development, implementation, and analysis of financial models to solve problems encountered by both finance students and practitioners. The book: • Analyzes theoretical and practitioner-oriented models long with the mathematics required to construct them • Presents the most essential mathematical techniques and their applications to financial analysis • Provides dozens of practical applications, examples, and end-of-chapter exercises with detailed solutions • Demonstrates key spreadsheet applications of the mathematical models in chapter appendices • Emphasizes practical applications of modeling technique.