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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

New functions in Excel 365

With Excel 365, Microsoft has brought array formulas much more into mainstream use by introducing a number of revolutionary functions.

Throughout the book, we will explain these new functions, starting in this chapter with XLOOKUP.

XLOOKUP

This powerful new formula combines the features of VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH, and does so in a much-simplified way while introducing a lot more options.

XLOOKUP has six arguments, three of which are compulsory with the other three optional. This does not make it more difficult or complex. Rather, as you will see, its application is quite simple.

The following screenshot shows the six XLOOKUP arguments:

Figure 3.38 – Example showing the full XLOOKUP syntax

Using the same example as in VLOOKUP as shown previously, the first argument, lookup_value, is the same: BN001 in cell D5.

We begin to see the differences with the second argument, lookup_array.

The following...