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Financial Modeling Blog

Free Guides, Tutorials, and Training Resources

Learn corporate finance, financial accounting, and financial modeling concepts for free with NYIM's training resources and guides.

DCF Model

A discounted cash flow (DCF) model is a financial model used to value companies by discounting their future cash flow to today’s present value.

Intro to Financial Accounting

Financial accounting includes the preparation of financial statements used by managers, investors, lenders, and other stakeholders to understand the company’s financial position.

4 Tips to Landing a Position as a Financial Analyst

Securing a position as a financial analyst can be challenging. In this post, we'll cover the top four tips to help you break into finance, including networking, resume writing, interview prep, and casting a wide net.

What is Financial Modeling?

Financial modeling is the creation of a projection, usually in Excel, of company's future performance. Various types of financial models exist, including a discounted cash flow (DCF) model, leveraged buyout (LBO) model, and a merger and acquisition (M&A) model, with each type of model serving its own purpose.

Financial models are used to value businesses for purposes of raising capital or evaluating investments or to evaluate a financial transaction, such as a leveraged buyout or acquisition.

This financial modeling resource hub will provide you with guides and short tutorials to get you started learning corporate finance, accounting, and financial modeling essentials. These guides are the ideal free preparation for our financial modeling courses in NYC, where we teach analysts how to build comprehensive models to forecast company performance and value companies.