Visual IFPS/Plus for Business (1st edition)


Paul Gray, Claremont Graduate School

Copyright 1996, 322 pp., Paper (0-13-185604-9)

This title is published by Prentice Hall Business Publishing

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Summary from Prentice-Hall:
"Based on his experience with the Interactive Financial Planning Systemthe author provides students and professionals with this “userfriendly” textbook that facilitates learning of the VisualIFPS/Plus language. This text offers novices step–by–stepinstruction of the language and, at the same time, offers more experiencedusers numerous new capabilities for the language."

Features:

  • introduces modeling and decision support systems,fundamental to understanding the Visual IFPS/Plus modeling language.

  • provides models, increasing in complexity as the chaptersprogress, that demonstrate how to write, manipulate, and obtaindesired, financial planning results in Visual IFPS/Plus language.

  • focuses on explanatory features of the language thatsupport decision making and improve communication based on model output.

  • illustrates the wide range of applications, takenfrom the disciplines of finance, statistics, and operations management,and the advanced computational features for which the languagecan be utilized.

  • concerned with the visual mode,>as well as the commandsessions of using Visual IFPS/Plus so that both the client andthe server are engaged in the financial planning process.

  • facilitates learning of the financial planning languageinstead of using traditional spreadsheets or elementary programminglanguages.

    Visual IFPS/Plus for Business Table Of Contents