Part One. Many businesspeople are familiar with these consolidated finan-
cial statements—this part of the book provides a guide to building these
statements from the ground up based on the Operating and the Financial
Budgets for a company. Free cash flow calculations are covered in this part
of the book as well to provide a cash-based perspective on a company’s
business operations and to provide a foundation for valuation calculations
at a later point in the book.
Part Three deals with several topics, including various ways to analyze
a financial model, the concept of valuation, and capitalization, or owner-
ship, charts. The analytical techniques related to financial modeling include
sensitivity analyses to test the assumptions underlying the financial model,
contribution margin analyses to assess the fixed- and variable-cost elements
of a company’s cost structure, and financial ratios analyses to measure im-
portant financial ratios such as net income to sales (profit margin).
Valuation, covered in Part Three, is a complex issue—entire books are
devoted to the subject. This part aims to cover some traditional valuation
methodologies and link these techniques to the financial model built earlier in
Parts One and Two. A capitalization chart provides a record of a company’s
ownership structure. Valuation and ownership are closely related (especially
if a company raises any type of equity financing) and deceptively complex
topics—this part of the book addresses how these topics relate to a financial
model.
Finally, the book concludes with an Appendix that provides a high-
level overview of Microsoft Excel’s features and functionality and detailed
answers to all of the end-of-chapter questions. Note that you will often need
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to access the end-of-chapter question files on the accompanying CD-ROM
to answer the questions.
A F I N A L N O T E
While this book is written with United States GAAP (Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles) in mind, the book’s modular nature aims to help
make the process of transitioning the modeling process to other accounting
systems as straightforward as possible.
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Acknowledgments
I
would like to thank the editorial team at John Wiley & Sons for their
support and assistance with this book. Special thanks to Bill Falloon,
Meg Freeborn, and Skyler Balbus for helping to turn my ideas into a book.
I would also like to thank Gene Fife, Bob Coleman, and Dimitri Azar
for their training, help, and guidance over the past years. Thanks also to
Bob Bruner for his role in inspiring my interest in, and pursuit of, the field of
Finance. Finally, thanks to my family for their support and understanding
as I put this book together.
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R
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