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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 - Second Edition

By : Shmuel Oluwa
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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 - Second Edition

By: Shmuel Oluwa

Overview of this book

Financial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel. Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for building financial models. As you proceed, you'll explore the advantages of Power Query, learn how to prepare a 3-statement model, inspect your financial projects, build assumptions, and analyze historical data to develop data-driven models and functional growth drivers. Next, you'll learn how to deal with iterations and provide graphical representations of ratios, before covering best practices for effective model testing. Later, you'll discover how to build a model to extract a statement of comprehensive income and financial position, and understand capital budgeting with the help of end-to-end case studies. By the end of this financial modeling Excel book, you'll have examined data from various use cases and have developed the skills you need to build financial models to extract the information required to make informed business decisions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Financial Modeling Overview
4
Part 2 – The Use of Excel Features and Functions for Financial Modeling
8
Part 3 – Building an Integrated 3-Statement Financial Model with Valuation by DCF
15
Part 4 – Case Study

Chapter 7: Asset and Debt Schedules

The projected balance sheets and profit and loss accounts are now complete, except for the effects of Capital Expenditure (CapEx)—purchase, disposal, and depreciation of long-term assets and long-term debt; fresh issues; repayments; and interest charges.

The fixed asset, depreciation, interest, and debt schedules are very important to our model as they tend to be very significant amounts in financial statements. They are long-term balances and are not covered by growth drivers.

You will learn how long-term assets and long-term debts are treated in financial statements, along with how we arrive at the different amounts to be included in the balance sheet and profit and loss account and how the values change from year to year.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Understanding the BASE and corkscrew concepts
  • Asset schedule
  • Approaches to modeling assets
  • Asset and depreciation schedule
  • Debt schedule
  • Creating...