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Course Description
Have you ever wanted to plan for retirement, understand the stock market, or create a cash flow for your business? This comprehensive course guides you through the process of building robust business and financial models using Google Sheets. Recognized for its versatility, Google Sheets serves as an exceptional tool for creating detailed business models. It empowers you to establish a clear framework for various financial goals, such as tracking investment growth, and enables you to update this framework with real-time data. This introductory section will set the stage for what you can expect to learn and achieve through the course.
Core Modeling Techniques
The course delves into the basics of business modeling, with a particular emphasis on critical aspects like cash flows, investments, annuities, loan amortization, and planning for retirement. You will be introduced to the fundamental principles that underpin these financial concepts, providing a solid foundation for building and interpreting models. This segment is designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge to understand how different financial variables interact and affect each other in a business context.
Advanced Functions and Applications in Sheets
As you progress, the course will introduce more advanced features of Google Sheets, focusing on referencing and function skills essential for constructing sophisticated models. You will learn how to utilize these features to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of your models. By the end of this course, you will not only have a thorough understanding of the theoretical aspects of business and financial modeling but also gain practical skills in using Google Sheets to apply these concepts to real-world scenarios. This hands-on experience will be invaluable in both your professional and personal financial planning.
Prerequisites
Curriculum
Course outline
What are Models?
- How to love models50 XP
- Format the income statement100 XP
- Create the sum values100 XP
- Copy sums for each year100 XP
- Continuing simple models with balance sheets50 XP
- Format a balance statement model100 XP
- Balance all the years100 XP
- Common size statement100 XP
- Build a cash flow model50 XP
- Update the cash flow100 XP
- Complete cash flow for all years100 XP
- Forecast Cash Flows100 XP
Time Value Money Models
Planning and Investing Models
Probabilistic Models
Financial Modeling in Google Sheets
Course
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