Financial Modeling Tutorials & Guides

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May 27, 2020 4 min read

Introduction to Bonds

In this video, we'll cover the fundamentals of bonds including what they are, how they work, and how they are priced.

May 5, 2020 5 min read

Financial Leverage Tutorial

In this tutorial, we're going to discuss financial leverage, which is the practice of borrowing money to finance the purchase of an asset.

May 5, 2020 4 min read

EBIT & EBITDA Tutorial

In this tutorial, we're going to review EBIT and EBITDA using real examples from Facebook and Dave & Buster's.

May 5, 2020 5 min read

Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) Calculation

In this tutorial, we're going to discuss a trailing 12 month or TTM calculation. We'll go through real financials to understand how TTM works. 

Apr 30, 2020 6 min read

Enterprise Value Made Easy

In this tutorial, we're going to review total enterprise value or EV, which is a combination of the equity value and net debt.

Apr 19, 2019 5 min read

Dividend Yield

A stock’s dividend yield measures how much investors receive in annual dividends as a percentage of the stock price. While dividends are widely followed…

Dec 30, 2018 8 min read

Cash Flow Statement

The cash flow statement breaks down a company's change in cash over a period of time and consists of three sections: Operating, Investments, and Financing. In…

Dec 25, 2018 3 min read

Introduction to the Balance Sheet

In this post, we'll dive into the three sections of the balance sheet: assets, liabilities, and shareholder's equity. 

Dec 24, 2018 4 min read

Top Excel Shortcuts You Need for Financial Modeling

Financial modeling can be a tedious process with multitudes of rows and columns of data. Excel shortcuts are crucial to any financial analyst's success. In this…

Dec 22, 2018 6 min read

Types of Financial Models

Various types of financial models exist, including discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation models, leveraged buyout (LBO) models, credit models, and merger and…

Dec 22, 2018 3 min read

Financial Modeling: Revenue Projections

Revenue drives enterprise value as well as many other line items in the model. Therefore, financial analysts must spend time planning and devising the best…

Dec 21, 2018 2 min read

Income Statement

An income statement (also referred to as a profit and loss statement) is one of the financial statements of a company and shows the company’s revenues and…

Dec 21, 2018 3 min read

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…

Dec 17, 2018 11 min read

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…

Dec 12, 2018 3 min read

Finance 101: NPV & IRR

The concepts of present value and internal rate of return are essential to evaluating investment opportunities and serve as the cornerstone for corporate…

Dec 12, 2018 2 min read

Intro to Capital Markets

In this free finance guide, we'll review the basics of how and why companies raise cash, or capital.

Dec 12, 2018 2 min read

Enterprise Value

In this guide, we will look at true measures of company value: market capitalization and enterprise value. We'll review how to calculate market cap and…

Dec 9, 2018 8 min read

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.

What is Financial Modeling?

Financial modeling is the creation of a projection, usually in Excel, of a 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.

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