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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

Asset and depreciation schedule

The following figure is an illustration of an asset schedule and its various components:

Figure 7.8 – Full depreciation schedule

This is the full asset and depreciation schedule that should be prepared for each asset class. A description of the various parts of the asset schedule follows.

The first section contains the following information:

Figure 7.9 – First section of depreciation schedule

Here, we have several keywords, such as Depreciation Method and Asset Life. We will look at what they are for this particular schedule:

  • Depreciation Method: In our case, it is the SLM.
  • Asset Life: This is used to represent the useful life of the asset, which, in our case, is 10 years.
  • Disposal of Assets: This section is for the proceeds of the sale of fixed assets, if any are present.
  • Capex: This row shows how much was—and is projected to be—spent on fixed assets...