Financial Simulation Modeling in Excel: A Step-by-Step Guide (Wiley Finance Book 18)

As an engineering student, this book helped me land a finance internship. Unlike many books in this field, the authors recognize that simulation has many skeptics, and they explain how to overcome these issues. They do a nice job of explaining how simulation can still be used to expand an analyst’s tool kit. The authors discuss the basics of simulation before delving into more complex models. Overall, it is a thorough step-by-step guide to learning simulation.

Most expensive overpriced book I've ever purchased.

Not for novices, or even intermediates. If you're an engineer with significant programming experience, it might be useful. But it leaves too many steps unexplained. Coding short-cuts are difficult to follow -- nested For Next loops simply say 'Next', not Next i or Next j. Moreover, frequent use of functions rather than subs which call a function make it hard to follow in de-bug mode. I bought this book for a class; but other than providing canned programs, it wasn't particularly useful.