Shmuel Oluwa - Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019

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Shmuel Oluwa is a financial executive and seasoned instructor with over 25 years' experience in a number of finance-related fields, with a passion for imparting knowledge. He has developed considerable skills in the use of Microsoft Excel and has organized training courses in Business Excel, Financial Modeling with Excel, Forensics and Fraud Detection with Excel, Excel as an Investigative Tool, and Accounting for Non-Accountants, among others. He has given classes in Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, and Tanzania, but his online community of students covers several continents.

Shmuel divides his time between London and Lagos with his pharmacist wife. He is fluent in three languages: English, Yoruba, and Hebrew.

I would like to dedicate this book to my late parents, Yirael and Levi Oluwa, and to my beloved late sister, Hodel Oluwa. Only the memories can soften the loss.

Bernard Obeng Boateng is a data analyst and a financial modeler with over 10 years' working experience in banking, insurance, and business development. He has a BSc degree in administration from the University of Ghana Business School, and is certified in business analytics from the world's leading business school, Wharton. Bernard is the principal consultant of BEST LTD, a firm that provides training and financial solutions to individuals and corporate institutions in Ghana.

As a financial modeler, he was part of a team that created an agriculture insurance risk model for the governments of Ghana and Rwanda. He has trained over 500 hundred corporate workers in Ghana and has an online training video series called Excel Hacks for Productivity.

Tony De Jonker, Excel Microsoft MVP is the principal of De Jonker Consultancy and AlwaysExcel, The Netherlands and specializes in Financial Modeling, Analysis, Reporting and Training for clients worldwide. He is the founder and presenter of the annual Excel events, such as Excel Experience Day, Excel Expert Class and Amsterdam Excel BI Summit. Tony offers a range of Excel Business related training courses in Dutch, English or German based on more than 34 years of spreadsheet modeling and more than 41 years of Finance and Accounting experience. and has written more than 150 articles on using Excel in Business for the Dutch Controllers Magazine.

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