Using Excel as a "tool" to teach finance, Advanced Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel is the only text on the market that integrates Excel features with finance concepts. The text is not another "how-to" guide for Excel; instead, it uses Excel to illustrate advanced finance concepts and to facilitate analysis, The book's practical approach to teaching financial concepts in the context of the spreadsheet program Excel prepares students for future assignments in the corporate world. Students gain a solid understanding of the financial foundations behind the spreadsheet construction and analysis -- not just a vague understanding of how to go through the Excel motions.