Project finance modelling from Penelope Lynch
The following are links which may be useful or interesting, but, clearly, their content and quality is not under our control!!
If you come across any sites which you feel could be included here, please let us know!
| Spreadsheet Pro | Spreadsheet review tool useful for comparison of model versions, error mapping etc. (May be superfluous with Excel 2007?) |
| Finance 3.0 | Networking web site dealing with all aspects of financial modelling, articles and discussion groups |
| Wilmott | Quant site with some interesting technical forums |
| PPP Lusofonia | Very interesting PPP blog, with news and articles. It's in Portuguese but has a Google Translation button (page down, left hand side), which seems to work well. |
| European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group | Academic group researching risk in all types of business spreadsheets - scary but interesting! |
| An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Named Ranges on the Debugging Performance of Novice Users | Paper by Ruth McKeever, Kevin McDaid, Brian Bishop reporting statistically significant reduction in error detection by novice users when debugging models using named ranges. A finding wholly in accord with my personal experience! |
| Smi Financial Modelling in oil and gas industry | I'll be speaking at this conference (Nov 12th 2009) |
| Smi Financial Modelling for PPP/PFI | I'm running a half day optimisation workshop at this event (March 2010) |
| Financial Modelling for Project Finance Workbook | My teach-yourself guide, published by Euromoney. Currently in the middle of a major update, so suggest finding a library copy unless you're in a big hurry! |
Currently, all have different views on some aspects of the work, and I would say that all have some shortfalls regarding project finance modelling specifically, but very interesting nonetheless, and good to see an attempt to standardise on some basic measures of quality
| FAST Modelling Alliance | Flexible Accurate Structured Transparent - Modelling standards and philosphy site - some very good ideas, some things I would disagree with at present |
| Spreadsheet Standards Review Board | Organisation developing standardised spreadsheet modelling standards - don't yet agree with all their points, but another interesting project looking for 'best practice' |
| LED sheep | Sheep-based graphic system, which I personally would like to see in wider use. |
| strips from xkcd, a slightly disturbed geek-based comic strip, which usually remembers that the point is to be funny. Hovering mouse over strip reveals additional commentary | |
| calculus | |
| Apocalypse | |
| Urgent Mission | |
| correlation |
| Cool kit! | Geek kit site, endless stuff, tiny motors, polymorph plastic, memory metal, etc. etc...... |
