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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019

You're reading from   Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019 Build practical models for forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis using Excel 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534627
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shmuel Oluwa Shmuel Oluwa
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Preface 1. Section 1: Financial Modeling - Overview FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Financial Modeling and Excel 3. Steps for Building a Financial Model 4. Section 2: The Use of Excel - Features and Functions for Financial Modeling
5. Formulas and Functions - Completing Modeling Tasks with a Single Formula 6. Applying the Referencing Framework in Excel 7. Section 3: Building an Integrated Financial Model
8. Understanding Project and Building Assumptions 9. Asset and Debt Schedules 10. Cash Flow Statement 11. Valuation 12. Ratio Analysis 13. Model Testing for Reasonableness and Accuracy 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Understanding scenario analysis

In sensitivity analysis, we selected a few inputs or drivers and changed them, while keeping all other variables the same. This showed us the isolated effect that each of the selected inputs has on share price. However, in practice, this is rarely the case. Variables do not change in isolation. What you generally have is a number of variables changing as a result of a certain set of circumstances, or a scenario. Scenario analysis usually looks at two or three sets of circumstances, most likely, worst-case and best-case scenarios.

For each scenario, you would assume alternative values for selected variables. In selecting the variables, you would concentrate on those inputs or drivers that are the most subjective. Scenario analysis involves substituting all the selected variables for a given scenario in your model and examining the effect this has...

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