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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

Preparing ratio analysis

With the preparation of a cash flow statement, we now have the core content of a set of financial statements. These financial statements, now referred to as a statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, and cash flow statement, along with explanatory notes and schedules, are distributed to shareholders of the company and government. It is also these financial statements that are available to other interest groups, such as investors and holders of the debt capital of the company.

The financial statements provide a significant amount of information about the company and its results for the period under review; however, on their own, they are not adequate for decision-making. Ratio analysis provides an in-depth look at the details behind the figures. The following screenshot is an example of a set of ratio analyses:

Figure 2.11 – Ratio analysis

By looking at the relationship between strategic pairs of...