Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel: A Guide for Business Professionals - Hardcover

Proctor, K. Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470481749 ISBN 13: 9780470481745

Publisher: Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

A proven guide to building financial models from scratch

The Second Edition of Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel + CD-ROM provides beginning and intermediate level computer users with step-by-step instructions on building financial models using Microsoft Excel 2007-the most popular spreadsheet program available. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Excel worksheets that track the course of the book and allow you to build your own financial models. This comprehensive resource also covers important topics such as the concepts of valuation, sensitivity analysis, and contribution margin.

• Offers accessible guidance on building financial models using Excel 2007
• Illustrates how to integrate financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows
• Covers the basics of building and using a Capitalization Table
• Discusses how to best present a financial model

Incorporating financial models into business decisions has become an essential element of good business practice, and this book will show you how to excel at this endeavor.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Microsoft Excel has become a critical element for decision-making in the modern business environment. It is particularly effective in the logical, step-by-step process of building a financial model—the quantitative representation of a company's past, present, and future business operations—where each component builds upon or feeds into another component. These financial models serve as the foundation and basis of today's standard financial accounting reports. But while many business professionals are familiar with consolidated financial statements, few are truly proficient at building an accurate and effective financial model from the ground up.

Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel, Second Edition offers a detailed and easy-to-understand guide for anyone who needs to build or analyze financial models using Microsoft Excel 2007. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, it is a comprehensive resource for business professionals with a beginner or intermediate level of experience in both Microsoft Excel, and finance or accounting. K. Scott Proctor provides a thoughtful and coherent link between financial/accounting theory and common Wall Street practice by addressing key questions in financial modeling like what to build, how to build, and how to analyze.

Part One covers the steps involved in building the master budget—detailing its two key elements, the operating budget and financial budget. You'll learn the fundamentals of the budgeting process and how various components of a master budget relate to one another—from sales, inventory, and operating expenses to capital budgets, cash budgets, and balance sheets. Part Two explains consolidated financial statements and free cash flows, providing a guide to building these statements from scratch. Part Three tackles the various ways to analyze a financial model, including sensitivity analysis, contribution margin analysis, and financial ratios analysis. The book also includes a companion CD-ROM, which contains sample Excel worksheets that allow you to follow the examples illustrated within the book or build your own financial models according to your specific situation.

Filled with in-depth insights and easy-to-understand instructions, this fully revised Second Edition of Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel is a readable, practical guide to understanding and creating fully functioning financial models.

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Praise for the First Edition of

Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel

"Scott Proctor offers a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to constructing and using financial models; I recommend this book as a tutorial and a reference for business professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors."
—Jack M. Gill, PhD, Vanguard Ventures

"This book is about making good decisions. . . . The modeling tools described in this book establish an analytical framework which adds much needed clarity to effective decision-making. This in-depth guide should well serve experienced professionals as a reference and business students and entrepreneurs as a tutorial."
—Eugene V. Fife, Retired Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

"Excel has become a critical element for decision-making in the modern business environment. Mr. Proctor's book is a solid introduction to utilizing this complex tool."
—William Polk Carey, Chairman and founder, W.P. Carey & Co. LLC

Readable, comprehensive, and engaging—buy this book; study it; and thereby build your capacity to harness the computer in the solution of real-world business problems."

—Robert F. Bruner, Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

"This book offers an excellent guide to building financial models. Proctor guides readers through the many interrelated steps involved in constructing and using financial models, a vital skill in today's business world."
—Jeffrey Nuechterlein, Managing Partner, Isis Capital

"Building Financial Models with Microsoft Excel takes a complex but critical subject and presents it in a concise, easy-to-follow fashion. This book is an indispensable reference guide for anyone who needs to build or analyze financial models using Microsoft Excel."
—Michael R. Lincoln, Partner, Cooley Godward LL

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470481749
• ISBN 13: 9780470481745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384