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Best Financial Modeling Courses 2021
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Beginner to Pro in Excel: Financial Modeling and Valuation
Do you want to learn how to use Excel in a real work environment?
Are you about to graduate from college and start looking for your first job?
Are you a young professional wishing to establish yourself in your new position?
Would you like to become the go-to person on your team when it comes to financial modeling in Excel?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then this is the course for you!
Join over 119,002 students who have passed this course!
The instructor of this course has extensive experience in financial modeling:
Worked in the financial advisory unit of a leading consulting firm
Experience in transactions carried out in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Poland
Worked in the internal mergers and acquisitions department of a large multinational
Has been a financial advisor in several M&A transactions of sizes ranging from € 2 million to € 5 billion
Worked on business valuations, due diligence analysis, impairment testing, bankruptcy proceedings, cash flow analysis, etc.
Learn the intricacies of financial modeling from someone who has walked the same path. Beat the learning curve and stand out from your colleagues.
A Complete Guide to Financial Modeling in Excel:
Become an Excel expert
Learn how to build solid financial models and stand out among your colleagues
Gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of business valuation
Create your files professionally
Demonstrate superior Excel skills on the job
Get ready from day one for your career in investment banking, financial advisory or consulting
What we offer:
Well-designed and easy-to-understand materials
Detailed explanations with understandable case studies based on real situations
Downloadable course material
Regular course updates
NEW! Includes professional chart examples that are 1: 1 with those used by major banks and consulting firms.
By completing this course, you:
Be able to work comfortably with Microsoft Excel and many of its advanced features
Become one of the best Excel users on your team
Be much faster in performing regular tasks
Be able to create a P&L statement from raw data extraction
Be able to create a cash flow statement
Knowing how to promote a company
Being able to build a valuation model from scratch
Know how to create a model with several scenarios
Know how to create professional and aesthetic advanced graphics
About the course:
An unconditional 30-day Udemy money back guarantee – because we believe in the quality of our content
No significant prior experience is necessary to fully understand the course and benefit from its content
Unlimited access to all course materials
Focus on learning by doing
You can always contact us for any clarification for free
Our goal is to take your Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills to the next level
Make an investment that will pay off in career prospects, positive reviews, and personal growth.
This course is suitable for graduates who aspire to become investment bankers as it includes a well-structured DCF model and reviews the theoretical concepts behind it. In addition, it will encourage you to be more confident in your day-to-day tasks and give you an advantage when the company must decide to hire you for a full-time position.
People with a basic knowledge of Excel who take the course will significantly increase their Excel skills.
Financial Modeling for Startups & Small Businesses
Reasons why you should create a financial model for your startup or small business. A good financial model can help you:
Test your assumptions and check the main drivers of your business
Compare and contrast different business choices, such as pricing models
Calculate the CURRENT amount of capital you need to get started
Calculate your burn rate
Model the growth of your users
Model your expenses
Be more prepared to talk to potential investors
And much more.
Building a financial model is not just an exercise in vanity. When done right, it can help you better understand your business, whether it’s a startup or an existing business you’re growing.
But it is not easy and there is a right and a wrong way to do it.
Even if you have little or no experience in finance, if you are going to start or run a business, this is a skill you should have.
A good financial model is an indicator of your understanding of your business model and your market. But building a good one requires the right tools and the right approach.
We will show you how to do this with a wide variety of examples and exercises. But we’ll also teach general best practices that will help you no matter what you build your financial models for in the future.
Why learn from us?
By signing up with us, you will learn from two highly rated instructors who have a combined student body of over 350,000 students and 25,000 reviews!
Check out our profiles and see that we take care of your students and deliver the goods.
Evan has extensive start-up experience and previously worked as a venture capitalist, where he evaluated hundreds of startups who were trying to convince him to invest in them.
Symon also has start-up experience in technology and physical companies. Previously, he built tons of models while working in mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity. And he’s helped dozens of startups build financial models in a dozen different business models and industries.
Together, we take our experience directly and put it into this course – in fact, two of the case studies use CURRENT financial models used to raise funds. The other case studies are inspired by well-known startups that you will certainly recognize.
How is this different from Symon’s Introductory Financial Modeling Course?
The Introductory Financial Modeling Course taught by Symon He and Brandon Young is an introductory financial modeling course that presents a general overview covering the topic and is more relevant for those who wish to explore finance as a career option or those who want to understand finance modeling in a business context.
This course is about financial modeling for start-ups, so it is more aimed at entrepreneurs or business owners who want to better understand the main drivers of a new business.
There is virtually no overlap. Even though both courses feature a lemonade stand as an example, these examples and models are quite different because they serve very different purposes.
What if I don’t have experience in finance or Excel?
No problem! This course is not an Excel or Finance course, but you will learn a bit of both. We focus more on the rationale and logic of modeling specifically for startups or growing businesses, so you can use what you’ve learned in other spreadsheet tools.
But it will take practice. You won’t get better just by watching the videos. That is why there are many practical exercises and sample models that you can learn from.
What can I do after taking your course?
After taking our course, you will be:
Able to confidently create financial models for your startup or new business from scratch
Able to apply best practices and techniques in financial modeling
Able to read and understand other financial models by examining numerous practice models and case studies
Able to leverage financial modeling to help you make smarter choices about your business.
Able to learn a new set of skills that you can take with you for any business venture you undertake in the future.
Why an example of a lemonade stand?
Because learning to model alone is hard enough, but learning it while having to learn a new business model makes it even more difficult.
But, even with a simple business model such as a lemonade stand, you will be surprised at the complexity and sophistication of the analysis.
And since this is modeling for startups and new businesses, this example is different from the Introduction to Financial Modeling course.
Following the simple lemonade example, we cover 7 separate case studies involving different business models in different industries.
Introduction to Financial Modeling for Beginners
There are THREE things you need to do to learn financial modeling:
1. You must understand the key concepts of finance
2. You must understand the relevant features and techniques in Excel
3. You must be able to put the two together into practice.
You are reading this because you have an interest in learning financial modeling for your job or a desire to get into corporate finance.
We did it too many years ago.
But when we first started, we wasted a lot of time and effort learning unnecessary and unnecessary information and techniques.
It didn’t have to be so painful and time consuming.
That’s why we’ve created this course, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes we did and learn financial modeling quickly without wasted effort.
You don’t need to learn everything about finance or Excel to become proficient in financial modeling.
You just need to know the RIGHT concepts and the RIGHT tools in each to get started.
What if I don’t have experience in finance or Excel?
No problem! This is an introductory course and assumes prior knowledge or experience of ZERO. It’s condensed because we’ve only organized the most relevant and useful topics for you to move forward quickly.
What can I do after taking your course?
After taking our course, you will be:
• Able to speak confidently of key financial, accounting and modeling concepts
• Able to use over a dozen of the most useful Excel features and techniques
• Able to build three distinct financial models from scratch
What is the lemonade stand?
Learning Excel or finance on their own is hard enough, and learning them at the same time can be more difficult. Darkening the waters further by asking students to learn an arbitrary business model would be unnecessarily confusing and a waste of time.
But even with a simple business model such as a lemonade stand, you will be surprised at the complexity and sophistication of the analysis.
You will learn:
Understand the basics of financial modeling using Excel
Understand the financial modeling process
Be able to create their first financial forecast model in Excel
Be able to create their first financial reporting template in Excel
Be able to build their first financial decision-making model in Excel
Master the design of financial models
Understand basic concepts in finance
Know that the lemonade business stands out!