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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

What is Power Query?

Power Query is an extract-transform-load (ETL) tool. It has greatly extended the sources from which data can be imported into Excel. Power Query has an impressive array of transform tools that crucially can be accessed and applied without the use of formulas. Finally, with the option to create a connection only, it reduces the file size tremendously over previous methods.

The first step in using Power Query is to import data (Get Data) into Excel. In Excel 365, you do this by selecting the desired source from the Get Data button in the Get & Transform Data group under the Data ribbon.

Note

From 2010 to 2013, you could access Power Query as a separate ribbon in Excel. However, from 2016 on, Power Query is now found in the Data ribbon as the Get & Transform group.

Figure 5.2 – The Get Data button in the Get & Transform Data group

Here, you are given the option of extracting data from a wide range of sources...