Bøger af Michael Rees

This is a story focusing on two main characters. Both are hardened ex-military men but from differing African backgrounds. There is a deadly competition that sees the two main characters build a loathing for each other. The less salubrious South African is a flawed individual, a troubled man, a racist but also a genius of sorts. He heads a major energy company that he believes is on the cusp of successfully commissioning a world changing clean energy generator. The action based plot is woven essentially on true, major and relatively recent historical events. The obnoxious, racist, powerful main character is supported by a rogue CIA agent and his friend within the Israeli secret service. They are all committed to the daring plan and believe the ends justifies the means whatever it takes.For a great deal of the story, our hero, the leader of a British Terrorist Monitoring team in London, is the only person who seems to recognizes the pending danger posed by the other main character. The outcome of this daring plan could impact not only on the future control of world energy sources and through that indeed the global environment for many years to come. With the help of the CIA, a major terrorist attack is planned to wipe out the South Africa Government. This atrocity is to be blamed on Muslim radicals. These events will provide the opportunity to re-establish white rule in the major part of Southern Africa and sustained with the support of the USA government. In the end, will this dark character loses out to the hero from British intelligence or change our world for decades to come?

A concise and practical guide to financial modeling in ExcelIn The Essentials of Financial Modeling in Excel: A Concise Guide to Concepts and Methods, veteran quantitative modeling and business analysis expert Dr. Michael Rees delivers a practical and hands-on introduction to financial modeling in Excel. The author offers readers a well-structured and strategic toolkit to learn modeling from scratch, focusing on the core economic concepts and the structures commonly required within Excel models.Divided into six parts, the book discusses the use of models and the factors to consider when designing and building models so that they can be as powerful as possible, yet simple. . Readers will also find:* The foundational structures and calculations most frequently used in modeling, including growth- and ratio-based methods, corkscrews, and waterfall analysis* Walkthroughs of economic modeling, measurement, and evaluation, and the linking of these to the decision criteria. These include breakeven and payback analysis, compounding, discounting, calculation of returns, loan calculations, and others* Structured approaches for modeling in corporate finance, including financial statement modeling, cash flow valuation, cost of capital, and ratio analysis* Techniques to implement sensitivity and scenario analysis* Core aspects of statistical analysis, including data preparation, manipulation, and integration* The use of approximately 100 Excel functions within example modeling contexts* Further Topics Sections, which introduce advanced aspects of many areas, in order to provide further benefit to more advance readers, whilst presenting the truly essential topics separately. Examples of these include introductions to PowerQuery and PowerPivot, as well as advanced waterfall structuresAn invaluable, all-in-one blueprint for learning financial modeling in Excel, this book is ideal for beginning and intermediate financial professionals and students seeking to build and reinforce essential topics in financial modeling.

The complete guide to the principles and practice of risk quantification for business applications. The assessment and quantification of risk provide an indispensable part of robust decision-making; to be effective, many professionals need a firm grasp of both the fundamental concepts and of the tools of the trade.