The Second Edition takes an active approach in showing readers how to build financial models in Excel. Designed to help readers hone their modeling skills, this book and CD provide a hands-on, practical mode of learning that includes step-by-step instructions and real world applications. Rarely covered content items are explored, such as corporate financial planning at full-scale using real data, realistic life-cycle financial planning, U.S. yield curve dynamics, and fully equivalent valuations using APV, FTE, and WACC for a two-stage project with cash flows over a finite horizon followed by an infinite horizon perpetuity. For professionals with a career in corporate finance, investments, and/or banking.