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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

Pivot tables and charts

Pivot tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel. A pivot table can summarize little or large amounts of data into a compact form that reveals trends and relationships that were not apparent from looking at the original data.

The pivot table allows you to introduce conditions based on the original data so that you can view the summarized data from different perspectives. It does all of this without you having to type any formulas. Most users are under the impression that pivot table reports are complex and difficult to prepare, but, in reality, the complexity is kept behind the scenes and taken care of by Excel. All you have to do is follow a few simple guidelines and you will be able to produce complex pivot tables with ease.

The first step is to ensure that your data is in the proper Excel table format, bearing in mind that you may have to work with data prepared by someone else.

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