Building Financial Models

by John Tjia

The first all-inclusive guidebook for designing, building, and implementing a sturdy core valuation/projection modelIn today's no-room-for-error corporate finance market, precise and effective financial modeling is essential for both determining a company's current value and projecting its future performance. Yet few books have explained how to build models that accurately interpret a company's financial statement, while none have focused on projection models.Building Financial Models fills this gap. The first book to detail a step-by-step process for first creating a simple, standardized projection/valuation model, and then customizing it for specific situations, this hands-on book:Provides in-depth explanations of the mechanics as well as the underlying and accounting principles of projection modelsOutlines how to design and implement a projection model that allows the user to change inputs quickly for sensitivity testingComprises a concise yet comprehensive tutorial on the use of Ex