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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 balance sheet growth drivers

Balance sheet growth drivers are not as straightforward as profit and loss drivers. While a profit and loss item is the sum of occurrences of that item within the period under review, a balance sheet item is made up of an opening balance, plus or minus movements in that item during the period, in order to arrive at a balance at a specific point in time, that is, the period end.

A wise man once said that revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is reality. We identify appropriate drivers for the balance sheet by considering cash flow.

Balance sheet items that drive cash flow are the elements of working capital—inventory, debtors, and creditors. An increase or decrease in these items has a direct effect on cash flow.

The following diagram shows this process:

Figure 6.4 – Elements of working capital

The working capital cycle consists of how quickly you turn over your stock, how quickly your debtors...