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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 12: Case Study 1 – Building a Model to Extract a Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss from a Trial Balance

The task of extracting financial statements from a trial balance can be taxing and prone to error, especially when you then have to incorporate journals and repeat the whole process in subsequent years.

This case study will teach you how to create an integrated template that seamlessly updates the financial statements with audit journals and other adjustments to the original data.

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned how to integrate a trial balance into the three-statement model of the balance sheet, profit and loss account, and cash flow statements.

In this chapter, we will cover the following steps:

  1. Introduction – Case study and requirements
  2. Preparing a working trial balance (WTB)
  3. Extracting groupings from the WTB
  4. Preparing a model template for the balance sheet (BS) and profit and loss (P&L), and relevant extracts...