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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

Relative referencing

Relative referencing is the default type of referencing in Excel. A reference is relative because when it is included as part of a formula that is copied to another location, the column and row of the reference will change by the same amount, relative to the position of the cell to which the formula is being copied.

Rather than type in values directly into cells, you should type the value in another cell and then enter the cell references of the cells containing the values, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.3 – The formula with the cell references

Entering the cell references rather than the values in the cells being referred to does not change the result of the formula. The only thing that changes is that you are now seeing cell references rather than values in the cells with formulas. However, when you decide to copy the formula to another location, the rules governing cell referencing come into play. Instead of...