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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

Using direct and indirect methods

There are two methods in sensitivity analysis, direct and indirect methods. Both methods make use of data tables that can be found under What If? in the forecast group on the Data ribbon in Excel.

In order to make use of the data table, you must structure your data in a particular way. The cell at the top-left corner of the table layout must be related to the target value share price, whose behavior we wish to observe.

Figure 11.16 – Layout for a data table

That specific position is essential for the data table function to work. However, since it will not be used for anything else, it is shown here in a white font, making it invisible, so as not to cause any distraction. The row input values are entered across the top row of the table. We have selected the terminal growth rate for the row input, with values from 3% with 1% increments up to 7%.

The column input is revenue growth (Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR...