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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

Selecting profit and loss account growth drivers

Turnover is the most prominent item in a profit and loss account. It, therefore, makes sense to concentrate on identifying a driver for turnover and then relating some of the less significant line expenses to projected turnover.

Appropriate drivers could be year-on-year growth or inflation, or compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Let's take a look at these two drivers in more detail now.

Year-on-year growth

This is simply the growth from one year to the next. It is usually expressed as a percentage. Year-on-year growth in turnover from year1 to year2 can be calculated as follows:

This can be simplified as follows:

This will give the historical growth driver in turnover for year2.

The growth driver for year3 will be as follows:

In this way, you will calculate growth drivers for each of the historical years (except for year 1 as there is no...