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VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems Using Microsoft« Excel
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List Price: $57.95 Amazon.com Price: $57.95 
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Product Details
- Media: Paperback
- Publisher: Duxbury Press (12 December, 2000)
- ISBN: 0534380123
- Average Customer Review:
Based on 5 reviews.
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: 17,243
Customer Reviews
The key to Excel/VBA programming competenceVBA for Modelers is that rare computer book that takes its reader from novice to programmer. Albright gives plenty of examples of code for numerous real world applications. The first section of the book is an overview of VBA in general. The depth and approach of these chapters though make it advisable to have some VBA knowledge. I recommend for complete beginners that they drudge through at least the first several chapters one of those beginner books to get a feel for VBA. If you are not an avid programmer it can be bewildering as to how to go about using the VBA code you see in a beginner book to create an application for business. Albright shows you how in a manner that is easy to read and understand. The project for each chapter and the problems at the end of each chapter are the key to developing an understanding of VBA and how to apply it to your everyday problem solving with Excel. Work through these problems and you will be able to approach Excel/VBA apps with ease. Easily the best computer book I have ever read. Now if Albright would write a similar book for Access all would be well in the world.
Simply the Best!This book provides the necessary knowledge for building advanced systems for quantitative analysis in Excel.
It covers all relevant aspects of programming with VBA which are necessary for building a decision support system and introduces the concepts by examples often found in the book "Practical Management Science" from Winston and Albright. From a didactic point of view the structure is very good because the first examples are easy to understand while the later ones are quite sophisticated. All in all it is an excellent textbook for teaching graduate MBA students who are interested in programming and have a good background in management science.
A VBA for Excel JewelVBA for Modelers by Albright is a jewel. The author, who's other books include Practical Management Science: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications and Data Analysis & Decision Making with Microsoft Excel among others, targets this book for those with little or no programming experience. Forget the Excel VBA coverage in books like Benninga's Financial Modeling or Advanced Modeling in Finance Using Excel and VBA by Jackson and Staunton. Each of these books has strengths but their coverages of VBA is considerably more disjointed and sketchy. At best, Benninga and Jackson and Staunton can be said to "demonstrate" how VBA can enhance financial modeling in Excel, while providing little in the way of quality instruction on VBA.
Albright's strength is concise, effective language supplemented with numerous examples and an ample number of extended exercises which enable readers to solidify and extend understanding. Chapters 1-13 are a quality VBA primer for readers with little or no programming experience. A distinguishing feature of the book is the coverage in Chapters 14-30 where specific applications are demonstrated and extended. The real strength of this book is that it is written by a fine educator who develops understanding in a systematic and effective fashion. With some work on the reader's part this book provides rewarding results.
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