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Duration: 4h 59m Skill level: Advanced Released: 10/13/2023

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A three-statement operating model incorporates your company’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement to provide an integrated and complete view of your organization’s financial health. Follow along with Chris Reilly, financial modeling expert and experienced Excel trainer, as he shows you how to build a three-statement model in Excel. Chris explains how to clean up source data, build the cash flow statement, build EBITDA, and forecast the income statement, balance sheet, debt schedule, and more.

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  • Finance
  • Operating Models
  • Microsoft Excel

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  • Chris Reilly I will help you become a Financial Modeling expert.

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    It's a wonderful learning experience to everyone whose work usually involves numbers.The Model has useful techniques to use while navigating the analysis of huge data with numerous figures.its very much commendable.

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Contents

    • What you should know 1m 24s
    • What you're going to build 4m 11s
    • Call with the CFO 3m 26s
    • Initial groundwork and freeze frames 3m 8s
    • Identifying hardcoded data 2m 19s
    • Applying the currency format 3m 28s
    • The value of a placeholder row 4m 7s
    • Initial error checking 3m 2s
    • Expanding on error checking 5m 50s
    • Formatting guide 2m 42s
    • Indenting and cleanup 3m 43s
    • Build the cash from operations 7m 35s
    • Build the cash from investing 2m 58s
    • Build the cash from financing 3m 27s
    • Build the change in cash and ending cash 5m 59s
    • An overview of EBITDA 4m 54s
    • Building the EBITDA schedule 8m 39s
    • Foundation of a good forecast 7m 34s
    • Build the annual income statement 5m 53s
    • Build the annual balance sheet 4m 29s
    • Calculating year-over-year growth 4m 39s
    • Forecasting the revenue 6m 55s
    • Forecasting the cost of goods sold 6m 17s
    • Forecasting the variable expenses 6m 30s
    • Forecasting the fixed expenses 4m 8s
    • Forecasting the headcount 5m 30s
    • Headcount in outer years 5m 59s
    • Forecast the income tax expense 2m 41s
    • An overview of the balance sheet 1m 40s
    • How to lay the net working capital 3m 51s
    • Forecasting the accounts receivable 6m 40s
    • Forecasting the inventory 3m 11s
    • Forecasting the accounts payable 3m 20s
    • Modeling prepaid expenses and accruals 6m 31s
    • Building the bonus accrual 11m 10s
    • Building the tax accrual 9m 27s
    • An overview of CapEx and depreciation 4m 22s
    • How to lay the fixed assets schedule 2m 50s
    • Building the CapEx forecast 4m 36s
    • Building the depreciation waterfall 8m 40s
    • Modeling existing depreciation 3m 16s
    • Connecting the fixed assets to the model 4m 16s
    • Quick cleanup 3m 48s
    • How to lay the debt schedule 4m 45s
    • Groundwork of the cash flow sweep 6m 30s
    • Finishing the cash flow sweep 4m 56s
    • Modeling the revolver 4m 59s
    • Getting started with term debt 3m 3s
    • Setting up term debt amortization 4m
    • Modeling the term debt amortization 4m 38s
    • Connecting the debt schedule to the model 5m 26s
    • Model the leverage ratio 7m 26s
    • Model the fixed charge coverage ratio 8m 46s
    • Pre-summary cleanup 8m 7s
    • Link up the one-pager: Part 1 8m 32s
    • Link up the one-pager: Part 2 5m 28s
    • Stress testing the model 3m 57s
    • Email to the CFO 3m 16s
    • Epilogue: Real-life application of the model 5m 34s

What’s included

  • Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
  • Test your knowledge 9 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone

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