"The new edition of Simon Begginga's Financial Modeling is a comprehensive and effective learning-by-doing tool in motivating users and making easily accessible the concepts of modern corporate finance, investments, and derivatives. In the real world of finance, its clear step-by-step approach empowers the practitioner to search the internet for financial data, build programs to analyze them, and make sound financial decisions. I strongly recommend it to the finance student and practitioner alike."--George Constantinides, Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (George M. Constantinides )