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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

Cash flow statement

Unlike other items, it is not possible to project cash. The cash balance is a fallout from all transactions carried out during the period under review.

This fact is captured in the cash flow statement, which considers the inflows and outflows of cash. The net result is then applied to the opening cash balance to arrive at the closing cash balance at the period end. The following screenshot shows a completed cash flow statement, which ends with a closing balance for cash that is taken to the balance sheet:

Figure 2.10 – Cash flow statement

When the closing cash balance is taken to the balance sheet, the balance check for the projected years should now show TRUE on a green background, giving some assurance that calculations up till that point are correct.

The cash flow statement is one of the most important statements for a company. To most investment analysts, cash is king.

You may wonder why you need another statement that...