Copying and pasting charts or tables directly from Excel into PowerPoint is not a straightforward as it sounds! When you are embedding charts, tables or (heaven forbid) a spreadsheet into a PowerPoint slide, it’s best to paste the image in as a picture or JPEG. If...
Congratulations to Alvin Woon, the new 2017 ModelOff Financial Modelling World Champion! Every year, 16 ModelOff finalists are flown to compete at the Microsoft headquarters in New York or London. Yet again, not one female made it to the finals and when the organisers...
There’s nothing quite like experience to really hone and sharpen your Excel modelling skills. Every hour that you spend nutting through a problem on the job means that the next time you come across a similar problem, you’ll solve it in a matter of minutes, not hours....
I’ve come across a lot of preconceptions (and misconceptions) about the idea of financial modelling; many people think it sounds very elaborate and esoteric, even mystical. Some question whether the skill is a science or a creative tradecraft in the industry, and I’ve...
I was pleased to be invited to speak again this year at the ModelOff Sydney Global Training Camp (GTC) held at the Microsoft Offices last week. It was, as always a great learning and networking event and I thoroughly enjoyed spending a solid two days surrounded by...
I’m often asked what degree of skill level one needs to be able to include financial modelling as a skill on your resume or LinkedIn profile. Once you’ve got an idea of exactly what is financial modelling, what is involved in the modelling process and you feel like...
There are all sorts of complicated definitions of financial modelling, and in my experience there is quite a bit of confusion around what a financial model is exactly. A financial model is a structure (usually built in Excel) to solve real world financial problems...
Danielle Stein Fairhurst was recently interviewed on a live webinar with The Outperformer, a career management platform on the topic of “Adding Financial Modelling to your Tool kit – a Must for any Accountant”. Financial modelling is now one of the...
Building valuation models requires a specialized knowledge of valuation theory (using the different techniques of valuing an asset), as well as modeling skills. If you’re a casual financial modeler, you probably won’t be required to create from scratch a fully...
Now that my new book “Financial Modeling in Excel for Dummies” is finally available, a lot of people have been asking me about the writing process and how it all came about. I think what they want to know but are too polite to ask is “what on earth were you thinking?”...
