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Financial decisions are part of everyday life, from budgeting for a car to evaluating career changes. In the corporate world, these decisions scale to funding projects, valuing companies, or pursuing mergers. Hu Financial Modeling equips learners with the essential toolkit to tackle these challenges, blending theory and practice to teach structured decision-making under uncertainty. Using Excel, it combines hands-on learning, real-world cases, and reusable frameworks to empower problem solvers.

  • Part 1: Foundations of Financial Modeling
  • 1 Introduction to Financial Modeling and Best Practices
  • 2 Education Financing and Retirement Planning: Time Value of Money
  • 3 Capital Budgeting
  • 4 Conducting Risk Analysis (Corporate Finance)
  • 5 Cash Budgets and Financial Modeling for Entrepreneurs
  • Part 2: Modeling Financial Statements and Valuation
  • 6 Financial Statement Analysis Techniques
  • 7 Modeling Integrated Financial Statements
  • 8 Valuation of Common Stocks
  • 9 Modeling Cost of Capital
  • 10 Mergers and Acquisitions Modeling
  • Part 3: Advanced Topics, Big Data, and Programming
  • 11 Modeling Portfolio Returns and Risks
  • 12 Modeling the Yield Curve and Bond Valuation
  • 13 Programming with VBA and Python
  • 14 Introduction to Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

About the Author

Bill Hu

Bill Hu serves as Chair of Finance and Accounting at Howard University. A recognized education, he has trained thousands of professionals from Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations at the intersection of finance and technology. Dr. Hu actively contributes to the global finance profession as a curriculum developer and grader for the CFA Institute and as the author of the spreadsheet modeling chapter for the Certified Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis Professional (FPAC) credential. Before his academic career in finance, Dr. Hu worked as a nanotechnologist and is credited with a variety of scholarly articles and patents.

Mattia Landoni

Mattia Landoni is Associate Professor of Finance at CEIBS in Shanghai, whose Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) was ranked as number 1 worldwide by the Financial Times in 2024. He previously taught at Harvard University, Babson College, and Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business, where he began teaching corporate finance in 2014. He has also served as Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Dr. Landoni earned his Ph.D. in financial economics from Columbia Business School; he completed his undergraduate degree at Bocconi University, and became a CFA (Certified Financial Analyst) charter holder in 2020. His research on public finance, lending markets, and cryptocurrencies has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and other leading outlets.

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