Six reasons your spreadsheet is NOT a financial model
I’ve often been asked the difference between a spreadsheet and a financial model, and there is a fine line of definition between the two. In a nutshell, an Ex...
How has your approach to financial modelling evolved over your career?
Fimodo speaks to four financial modelling experts to get a brief history of their professional development, and how that has changed over time.
Nick Crawley
Managing Director, Navigator Project Finance
www.navigatorpf.com “Approach” incorporated, speed, accuracy, specific industry knowledge, technical Excel and V
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Managing Director, Navigator Project Finance
www.navigatorpf.com “Approach” incorporated, speed, accuracy, specific industry knowledge, technical Excel and V
Tips for mastering financial modelling of balance sheets
The Balance Sheet can be one of the trickiest financial statements to model, as several line items are the result of decisions you make for the other financi...
How to Stress-test Your Business Case
In a volatile economic environment, creating a business case for a new project or product which contains financial projections is an extremely difficult...
Do You Really Need an ‘Advanced Excel’ Course?
Excel is the backbone to any custom built financial model, and one of the core attributes of a financial modeller is to have good technical Excel skills. Wh...
Five Excel Formulas to make you cringe
When creating a financial model, there are always multiple ways to write a formula which will all give you the same result. The key is to write formulas inte...
Can Fimodo change the financial modelling world?
There are a number of financial modelling websites out there, and they all have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Over the last few years I have of...
3 approaches to avoid complex off-sheet references
A key differentiator of the many different Best Practice Methodologies that have been developed, both by in-house and professional financial modelling...
Business planning for a start-up venture
Starting a new business is a challenging process and involves a number of hurdles. The challenges range across finance, reporting, legal, commercial and...
Line Summaries – get the big picture!
Within the first few minutes of starting to build a financial model for project finance, corporate finance or any other sector it becomes clear that a finan...
How to successfully build portfolio (multi-asset) models
It is common practice in project, corporate and structured finance transactions for a financial model to need to accommodate more than just one project, c...