Product Description

If you’re seeking solutions to advanced and even esoteric problems, Advanced Analytical Models goes beyond theoretical discussions of modeling by facilitating a thorough understanding of concepts and their real-world applications—including the use of embedded functions and algorithms. This reliable resource will equip you with all the tools you need to quantitatively assess risk in a range of areas, whether you are a risk manager, business decision-maker, or investor.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #575229 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1014 pages

About the Author
Johnathan Mun is currently the founder and CEO of Real Options Valuation, Inc., as well as the creator of the Real Options Super Lattice Solver software for real option valuation and Risk Simulator Monte Carlo simulation software. Prior to starting his own firm, he was the vice president of analytics at Decisioneering, Inc. Mun is also a Full Professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (California) and the University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland and Germany). He has authored numerous books, including Real Options Analysis, Real Options Analysis Course, Modeling Risk (previously titled Applied Risk Analysis before revision and updates), and Valuing Employee Stock Options (all published by Wiley). Mun has also taught and consulted for more than 300 corporations in twenty countries worldwide on risk analysis and real options, and is considered a leading authority on real options and risk analysis.

Customer Reviews

It is not a book , but an trial software manual.
The book is a summary of the software that the author tries to sell you.
Don't pay for this very bad book.
Don't be stupid like me, because You will lose your money.

The rating depends on what you expected - 30 day trial licence
As soon as I opened the book it turned out that I paid for 30 day trial version of the software on DVD. The descriptions in the book are just very thin user guide to the functions on DVD. I will return it, no doubt, only because I feel cheated.

I think that the evaluation of the book depends on what you expect. Some people (like me) expected an academic/scientific type of book that presents the internal structure of the models and can serve as a reference when developing their own models. For such people this book will be a big disappointment.

Another approach is to buy an analytical software package - if this is the case then the book serves the purpose. But it is a bit unusual to pay for the trial version (it should come for free). And it is very unusual not to say it openly.

My biggest concern is however that by advertising the trial version of software package as a scientific book the Amazon compromised themselves for me. I lost faith in all the other official reviews (and the reviews on the blurbs) and will rely only on other readers' opinions.

My first reaction was not to return the book. I thought I could use the software to make some calculations or as a reference when developing my own models. Unfortunately 30 day trial licence compromises such a thinking. That is why I decided to return the book. The book without the licence for the software on DVD is completely useless, as it serves merely as a user guide for the functions on DVD.

Just say "nope."
In this book the author appears to have tried to make people *pay* for a sales demonstration of his products. Better off with Simon Benninga's Financial Modeling in Excel 3rd edition.