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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

Troubleshooting

It is unprofessional to share a model that is full of errors. You should always check your model for errors and then take steps to correct them.

The following are guidelines to follow when errors are detected in your model:

  • Precedents are those cells that have been referred to in arriving at the value in a particular cell.
  • Dependents are those cells that have included the cell in focus in their formula.

The following illustration will be used to explain this further:

Figure 11.03 – Cells connected as dependents or precedents

Look at cell K8. The formula in that cell is =K6*(1-$D$7). The formula relies on the contents of cells K6 and D7, which makes them precedents of cell K8. On the other hand, cell K8 is a dependent of both cells K6 and D7.

On the formula ribbon, in the formula auditing group, selecting trace precedents or trace dependents reveals thin blue arrows linking a cell to either its precedents or...