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This is the new, fully updated and expanded edition of the definitive guide to creating business models that can be used to evaluate anything from a modest business proposal to a major acquisition. All organisations face more and more complex decision-making while the risks dependent on their decisions require increasingly explicit understanding of potential outcomes. The new edition of this widely acclaimed guide is full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible and easy-to-use business models for analysing the upside or potential downside of anything from a small development of an existing business to large scale mergers and acquisitions. For anyone who wants to get ahead in business and especially for those with bottom-line responsibilities, this is an invaluable guide to how to build spreadsheet models for assessing business risks and opportunities.
| ISBN | 1861979150 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9781861979155
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Profile Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 776 | | Imprint | Economist Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Economist (Hardcover) | | Publication date | 26 May 2005 | | Height (mm) | 254 | | Library of Congress | HD | | Width (mm) | 193 | | DEWEY | 658.15 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education |
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| 1 | | Introduction | | 1 | | 2 | | The business modelling process | | 6 | | 3 | | Defining the outputs | | 12 | | 4 | | Uncertainty, scenario planning and model inputs | | 19 | | 5 | | Developing the scenarios | | 25 | | 6 | | Managing the model development process | | 32 | | 7 | | Useful items to include in the modeller's toolbox | | 40 | | 8 | | Style and outline | | 59 | | 9 | | Macroeconomic factors | | 70 | | 10 | | Forecasting revenue | | 85 | | 11 | | Operating costs | | 117 | | 12 | | Capital expenditure and working capital | | 128 | | 13 | | Modelling funding issues | | 146 | | 14 | | Further financial statement development | | 158 | | 15 | | Project appraisal and company valuation | | 172 | | 16 | | Analytical ratios and reviewing the financial statements | | 193 | | 17 | | Testing and debugging | | 206 | | 18 | | Introduction to programming and macros | | 216 | | 19 | | From spreadsheet to application | | 237 | | 20 | | Documenting the model | | 250 | | 21 | | Writing and presenting the business plan | | 256 |
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