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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

Understanding functions and formulas

In order to enter either a formula or a function, you must first type =. A formula is a statement that includes one or more operands (+, -, /, *, and ^), such as =34+7 or =A3-G5 (this formula subtracts the contents of cell G5 from the contents of cell A3). A function can also be included as part of a formula, such as =SUM(B3:B7)*A3. This formula will add the contents of cells B3 to B7 and multiply the result by the contents of cell A3.

A function is a command that contains a series of instructions for Excel to carry out. A function contains one or more arguments, inviting the user to specify the input cell or range of cells on which the instructions are to be carried out, for example, MATCH(A5, F4:F23,false).

A function can include a formula as part of an argument, such as =IF(A4*B4>C4,D4,E4).

However, the distinction between them is often ignored and the term formula is used to indicate either a formula or function.

To enter a formula...