Financial modeling tools to access financial data warehouses to build, estimate, maintain, and interpret comprehensive financial models that provide the framework for understanding businesses and their historical performance, plans/strategies, and market values. Financial analytics/modeling skills, including data mining of large standard financial databases (warehouses) (e.g. Capital IQ), and a manageable introduction to Excel VBA programming.prereq: MBA 6231 (previously MBA 6230), MBA or Mgmt Sci MBA student