Synopses & Reviews
SCIENTIFIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT is a complete tool kit to deploying advanced, state-of-the-art financial techniques for defining a firm's strategic direction...explaining optimal capital allocation strategies...and making a smart defense of the shareholder value number.
Readers will learn how to use the same scientific methods and models successfully employed by Fortune 100 companies, including:
x Option analysis
x Visual financial models
x Monte Carlo analysis
x Cash-flow analysis
x Uncertainty forecast models
x Linear programming
x Decision trees and multiattribute utility analysis
x Interactive credit scoring model--and other tools that close the gap between the theory of finance and the utilization of scientific applications.
Synopsis
Scientific Financial Management is a complete tool kit to deploying advanced, state-of-the-art financial techniques for defining a firm's strategic direction... explaining optimal capital allocation strategies...and making a smart defense of the shareholder value number.
Readers will learn how to use the same scientific methods and models successfully employed by Fortune 100 companies, including:
-- Option analysis
-- Visual financial models
-- Monte Carlo analysis
-- Cash-flow analysis
-- Uncertainty forecast models
-- Linear programming
-- Decision trees and multiattribute utility analysis
-- Interactive credit scoring model -- and other tools that close the gap between the theory of finance and the utilization of scientific applications.
About the Author
Morton Glantz (New York City) is the founder of Mort Glantz Associates. Bruce Henderson (New York City) consults on international banking issues.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Scientific Financial Management
2. Fundamentals of Portfolios and Option Analysis
3. Real Options--A Must Technique
4. Creating Visual Financial Models
5. Cash Flow Re-engineering: Micro Project Analysis and Cash Flow and Sustainable Growth
6. Statistical Forecasting Methods and Modified Percent of Sales
7. How to Apply Monte Carlo Analysis to Financial Forecasting
8. Neural Networking
9. Linear Programming, Optimization, and the CFO
10. Risk Analysis of the Corporate Entity and Operating Segments
11. A Primer on Shareholder Value--From Basics to Monte Carlo