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Excel Financial Modeling for Startups and Small Business A-Z

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Overview

Financial Modeling Masterclass: Prepare world class Financial Models in Excel for Startups and SMBs, right from scratch.

What you'll learn:
  • Understand Financial Modeling in detail
  • Learn to prepare Financial Models in Excel
  • Before starting Financial Modeling, understand the Financial Statements in detail
  • Learn all the key Accounting & Finance terms for Financial Modeling
  • Learn Basic Finance, Time Value of Money and DCF
  • Learn to calculate Net Present Value - NPV
  • Learn to perform complete Financial Appraisal for projects

Financial Modeling is the Art and Science of preparing future financial statements.

A Financial Model is a set of Future Financial Statements, prepared in such a scientific way that any changes made in data updates the whole model according to new information without breaking any calculation.


Do you know what is common between Finance, Accounting, Financial Statements, & Financial Modeling?

The answer is:These all are used in every single business, by almost all the senior professionals who are involved in decision making.

This course is designed to teach you everything that you need to know to sit at that decision making seat!

Plot:

Assuming no previous knowledge, this course begins from the fundamentals and first you first learn the key business reports and the terms used in these reports. Then after getting the idea about financial reports and accounting behind reports, you will prepare these reports - financial statements - from the accounting data.

Once you have the good understanding of Financial Reports, you will learn to model them into a beautifully linked and interlinked Financial Model. Using a demo start-up company information, you will prepare their complete Financial Model. Not only this model will present all values for decision making, but also it will be dynamically adjusted to reflect any business scenario.

Then you will learn the Finance and all the basic concepts needed to calculate the value of a business; like Time Value of Money, Present Value, Future Value, DCF, NPV(Net Present Value) and IRR.

What makes this course special:

  • Brief in theory, yet fully practical and hands on

  • Practice material and assignments

  • Covers a fairly complex yet covers a complete business scenario

  • Starts from very basics, and gradually builds to cover advanced concepts

Who should take this course:

  • Finance, Accounting, and business Students

  • Aspiring Finance Professionals

  • Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

  • Investors and start-up founders

Prerequisite: None, but basic knowledge of Excel will be helpful.

Money-Back Guarantee:Udemy offers 30 days money-back guarantee for this course.

Introduction to the teacher: Chartered Accountant | x PwC | Startup founder | 100,000+ students

Taught by

Irfan Sharif

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4.3 rating at Udemy based on 812 ratings

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