Modeling Structured Finance Cash Flows with Microsoft Excel

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190 MODELING STRUCTURED FINANCE CASH FLOWS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL

USING THE CD WITH WINDOWS


To install the items from the CD to your hard drive, follow these steps:

1.Insert the CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
2.The CD-ROM interface will appear. The interface provides a simple point-and-
click way to explore the contents of the CD.

If the opening screen of the CD-ROM does not appear automatically, follow
these steps to access the CD:

1.Click the Start button on the left end of the taskbar and then choose Run from
the menu that pops up.
2.In the dialog box that appears, typed:\start.exe. (If your CD-ROM drive is
not drive d, fill in the appropriate letter in place ofd.) This brings up the CD
Interface described in the preceding set of steps.

WHAT’S ON THE CD-ROM


The following sections provide a summary of the software and other materials you’ll
find on the CD.

Model Builder Files

Each chapter in the text includes Model Builder sections that instruct the readers
on how to build the model step by step. Included on the CD-ROM are Excel
workbooks organized by chapter named folders that contain the completed Model
Builder exercise. The Model Builder exercises are named and organized according
to the corresponding chapter/subsection.For example, in the text the Model Builder
exercises use a ‘‘Model Builder: Chapter.Subsection’’ convention, while the CDROM
files are entitled MB ‘‘Chapter.Subsection.’’

Additional Files

Within each Model Builder chapter folder in the CD-ROM there may be a folder
entitled, ‘‘Additional Files.’’ These files are supplementary analysis/examples that
are relevant to the chapter.

CUSTOMER CARE


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