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Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies Paperback – April 14, 2017
Make informed business decisions with the beginner's guide to financial modeling using Microsoft Excel
Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies is your comprehensive guide to learning how to create informative, enlightening financial models today. Not a math whiz or an Excel power-user? No problem! All you need is a basic understanding of Excel to start building simple models with practical hands-on exercises and before you know it, you'll be modeling your way to optimized profits for your business in no time. Excel is powerful, user-friendly, and is most likely already installed on your computer—which is why it has so readily become the most popular financial modeling software. This book shows you how to harness Excel's capabilities to determine profitability, develop budgetary projections, model depreciation, project costs, value assets and more. You'll learn the fundamental best practices and know-how of financial modeling, and how to put them to work for your business and your clients. You'll learn the tools and techniques that bring insight out of the numbers, and make better business decisions based on quantitative evidence. You'll discover that financial modeling is an invaluable resource for your business, and you'll wonder why you've waited this long to learn how! Companies around the world use financial modeling for decision making, to steer strategy, and to develop solutions. This book walks you through the process with clear, expert guidance that assumes little prior knowledge.
- Learn the six crucial rules to follow when building a successful financial model
- Discover how to review and edit an inherited financial model and align it with your business and financial strategy
- Solve client problems, identify market projections, and develop business strategies based on scenario analysis
Create valuable customized templates models that can become a source of competitive advantage From multinational corporations to the mom-and-pop corner store, there isn't a business around that wouldn't benefit from financial modeling. No need to buy expensive specialized software—the tools you need are right there in Excel. Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly so you can start reaping the benefits today!
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFor Dummies
- Publication dateApril 14, 2017
- Dimensions7.38 x 0.76 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-101119357543
- ISBN-13978-1119357544
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From the Inside Flap
- Use Excel to plan strategically
- Optimize profits by forecasting
- Model scenarios and what-if analysis
Start creating sophisticated financial models in Excel today!
From Fortune 500 corporations to home-based businesses, all companies can benefit from financial modeling. With it, you can predict market trends, determine solutions to client issues, and find ways to optimize your profits. And the best part is you don't need specialized software or an MBA to do it! You'll be creating your very own financial models before you know itand this book shows you how. It gets you up to speed in no time on how to use Excel to create financial models tailored to your business needs and goals.
Visit the companion website at www.dummies.com/go/financialmodelinginexcelfd to download the Excel workbook files used in this book.
Inside …
- Financial modeling ABCs
- Excel modeling tools and how to use them
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses
- Teasing insights out of the numbers
- Optimizing profits
- Finding solutions to client questions
From the Back Cover
- Use Excel to plan strategically
- Optimize profits by forecasting
- Model scenarios and what-if analysis
Start creating sophisticated financial models in Excel today!
From Fortune 500 corporations to home-based businesses, all companies can benefit from financial modeling. With it, you can predict market trends, determine solutions to client issues, and find ways to optimize your profits. And the best part is you don't need specialized software or an MBA to do it! You'll be creating your very own financial models before you know itand this book shows you how. It gets you up to speed in no time on how to use Excel to create financial models tailored to your business needs and goals.
Visit the companion website at www.dummies.com/go/financialmodelinginexcelfd to download the Excel workbook files used in this book.
Inside …
- Financial modeling ABCs
- Excel modeling tools and how to use them
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses
- Teasing insights out of the numbers
- Optimizing profits
- Finding solutions to client questions
About the Author
Danielle Stein Fairhurst is the principal financial modeler for Plum Solutions with many years' experience in the field. Her "Financial Modelling in Excel" LinkedIn group has more than 40,000 subscribers. She is also the author of several articles and other books as well as a financial modeling newsletter.
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- Publisher : For Dummies; 1st edition (April 14, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119357543
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119357544
- Item Weight : 1.33 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.76 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,033,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Danielle Stein Fairhurst is the principal of Plum Solutions, a Sydney-based financial modelling consultancy. With her talent for analytical modelling and professional approach, Danielle helps her clients create meaningful financial models for business analysis. She is regularly engaged as a speaker, facilitator and consultant. Danielle has regular engagements around Australia and globally as a speaker, course facilitator, financial modelling consultant and analyst, was a guest on Excel TV and has been interviewed for several industry podcasts. She founded the Financial Modellers’ Meetup groups which now has over 5,000 members in seven countries as well as a LinkedIn forum with over 40,000 members. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), and has taught management accounting subjects at Sydney University.
A Note from the Author - I hope you enjoy reading my books. They were written from my course materials compiled over many years of training in analytical courses in Australia and globally - most frequently courses such as Financial Modelling in Excel, Data Analysis & Reporting in Excel and Budgeting & Forecasting in Excel, both as face-to-face workshops and online courses. The common theme is the use of Microsoft Excel and I've developed the content to suit the hundreds of participants and their questions over the years. This content has been honed and refined by the many participants on these courses, who are my intended readers. This book is aimed at you, the many people who seek financial analysis training (either by attending a seminar or self-paced by reading this book) because you are seeking to improve your skills to perform better in your current role, or get a new and better job.
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It saved me a lot of guesswork figuring out why specific outcomes differed by workstation, in an office where not everybody was on the same Excel page.
This could easily be the best $20 I have ever spent.
I initially felt awkward reading a "Dummies'" book, since I use excel extensively at work. To my surprise it reads nothing like dummies' series. Which now has me really worried about myself!