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Excel for Financial Modeling Pros

The document outlines the content of a financial modeling workshop. The workshop covers best practices in financial modeling including accuracy, flexibility, and stress testing models. It teaches Excel functions to analyze and summarize data such as SUM, IF, AND, OR and financial functions like NPV, IRR. The workshop demonstrates how to build basic financial statements, use Solver, work with databases and create forms. Participants will complete a case study modeling an M&A transaction.

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Excel for Financial Modeling Pros

The document outlines the content of a financial modeling workshop. The workshop covers best practices in financial modeling including accuracy, flexibility, and stress testing models. It teaches Excel functions to analyze and summarize data such as SUM, IF, AND, OR and financial functions like NPV, IRR. The workshop demonstrates how to build basic financial statements, use Solver, work with databases and create forms. Participants will complete a case study modeling an M&A transaction.

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  • Best Practices in Financial Modeling
  • Excel Functions and Commands
  • Financial Modeling Using Excel
  • Creating the First Financial Statement Model
  • Working with Database Functions
  • Using Solver and Statistical Data Analysis
  • Financial Modeling for Valuation of an LBO cum- MBO
  • Using Forms

Financial Modeling Using Excel

A Workshop

Programme Content Best Practices in Financial Modeling

Accuracy, flexibility, User-friendliness


Structural standards
Iteration, Circular Errors, the #REF! problem
Factual checks, Rational checks, Structural checks,
Model Stress Testing, Proofreading
Documentation & Preparing for Handoff

Excel Functions and Commands to Supercharge


Worksheets

Different ways of summing and counting: SUM;


SUMIF; SUMPRODUCT; COUNT; COUNTA;
COUNTBLANK; COUNTIF
IF(ThisIsTrue, DoThis, ElseDoThis)
Alternative ways to using IF function: AND; OR;
MAX; MIN; CHOOSE
Error trapping: ISERROR; ISNUMBER; ISTEXT
Controlling appearance of numbers and text: TEXT;
CONCATENATE; ROUND; ROUNDUP;
ROUNDDOWN; CEILING; FLOOR; INT; TRUNC;
MOD
Dates: YEAR; MONTH; DAY; DATE; DAYS360
Lookup and reference: CHOOSE; OFFSET; INDEX;
MATCH; HLOOKUP; VLOOKUP
Discounting on uneven periods: NPV; XNPV; IRR;
XIRR
Data validation
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Pivot tables, Scenario analysis, Goal Seek
Conditional Formatting
Programme Content (Cont’d) Creating the first financial statement model in
Excel to begin with
Modeling Income Statement & Balance Sheet
Getting the model to balance and using the model as
a decision making tool

Using Solver and Statistical Data Analysis


Introduction to Solver
A cash management model
Calculating beta using statistical toolbox

Financial modeling for valuation of an LBO cum


MBO: This would be done as a case study with
participants having to model an M&A transaction.

Working with Databases functions


Database functions: DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX,
DMIN, DCOUNT, DCOUNTA
Sort, Auto Filter, Advanced Filter, Subtotals,
Validation, Consolidate, Group & Outline

Using Forms
Check Box, List Box, Combo box, Spinner bar, Scroll
bar
Using forms toolbars. As an example uses of forms
in creating customized charts

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