Principles of Finance with Excel

Disk with Book

This disk contains files for all of the spreadsheets in each chapter and for all of the end-of-chapter
exercises in Principles of Finance with Excel. To find the computations for a particular page in a chapter:

Open the appropriate chapter file contained in the Chapter files directory.

Go to the tab on the spreadsheet corresponding to the page.

Heres the way a typical spreadsheet looks (this one is for page 201 of Chapter 8):

Each set of end-of-chapter

exercises is displayed in a
file in the Exercises
directory on the PFE CDROM..

The Getformula macro

When opening a spreadsheet, you will be confronted by the following screen:

You can safely click Enable Macros: This enables a small program called Getformula which helps
identify the cell contents. A separate file on this CD-ROM tells you how to implant this useful program
on your own Excel notebooks.

Changing the security settings

If you get the message below when opening a PFE file, you will need to reset your security
settings to enable Getformula to work:

If you get this message, click on Tools|Macro|Security:

Reset the Security setting to Medium:

Finally
I have tried to make these spreadsheets as accurate as possible, but inevitably there will be hitches. If you
have comments, please send them to me.
Enjoy!

Simon Benninga
Benninga@wharton.upenn.edu
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