Simon Benninga

In the last 20 years I have written a series of books on financial modeling. My current books are Financial Modeling (3rd edition, MIT Press, 2008) and Principles of Finance with Excel (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2010). Both books integrate Excel with financial problems. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Excel for anyone doing finance, whether student or practitioner, but for some reason most finance books either ignore Excel completely or do not instruct the reader in the nuts-and-bolts of Excel implementation of finance problems. Hence my books.

Of the two currently in-print books, Financial Modeling is a more advanced modeling/finance book that includes VBA and some more advanced mathematics (all explained within the confines of the text). FM has become perhaps the standard financial modeling book at universities and among practitioners. It has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Russian.

Principles of Finance with Excel is an introductory text that covers the standard concepts of a "Principles" or "Introductory" finance book while maintaining the integration with Excel. PFE is gaining increasing adoption at universities in introductory finance courses.

I maintain a full website at http://simonbenninga.com that includes materials for instructors using my books in courses.