Last month, we used Goal Seek to determine the most reasonable mortgage payment within a specific budget. This month, we continue with the mortgage example using Scenario Manager. We’ll generate a ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

When you use Excel, you have access to powerful tools that can help you make informed decisions based on different scenarios. Two of the most useful tools for this purpose are Goal Seek and the ...

Not All Methodologies for Financial Scenario Analy... Not All Methodologies for Financial Scenario Analysis Are the Same Types of Scenario Analysis Forecasting is a no-win situation. If you get it ...

Two types of scenarios are commonly used to explore the future in a structured fashion: deductive and inductive. Deductive scenarios take a top-down approach, producing scenarios that allow leaders to ...

This was written by Mihai Stefanita, Constantin Cosereanu and Steven Ioannou. It first appeared on the Bloomberg Terminal. How did stocks perform as the Spanish flu ran its course a century ago? At ...