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Start-up financial modeling for non-finance professionals
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Start-up financial modeling for non-finance professionals

A guide for non-finance start-up entrepreneurs to prepare their financial projections hassle-free.
Created byFeanut Model
Last updated 6/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand financial modeling for start-up business
  • Use provided end-to-end financial model to prepare start-up financial projections
  • Create their own start-up financial plan using the provided financial model
  • Understand key data inputs in the start-up financial model
  • Perform quick scenario modeling in the provided financial model

Course content

6 sections • 19 lectures • 3h 55m total length

  • Introduction2:56

    Let us introduce ourselves and this course. We are a couple of finance and consulting professionals who decided to make life easier for start-up entrepreneurs by developing a financial model that even a non-finance guy will find easy to use to prepare the financial projections.

    In this video you will learn:

    • Who we are
    • What is Feanut Financial Model
    • Why we did it
    • How it will help you
  • Model Structure and Navigation15:05

    In this video you will learn about the main sections of the models and about features that will help you to navigate through the spreadsheet.


    Key topics:

    • Model structure
    • Numbering and color-coding
    • Links between worksheets
    • Navigation in the model

Requirements

  • You should have a spreadsheet software - a copy of the financial model will be provided as part of the course.
  • Basic knowledge of MS Excel is required
  • No particular finance and accounting background is required - however, have a basic understanding of a business plan items - Sales, Cost of sales, Operational Expenses, Personnel, Capital Expenditures, Sources of financing

Description

This course is primarily aimed at start-up entrepreneurs with limited background in finance and accounting. As part of the course you will receive your copy of Feanut Financial Model - a tool that we developed to make it easy to prepare complex financial projections. Over this course you will learn how to use this model to prepare a professional financial plan, including the financial statements, financial ratio analysis, simplified business valuation and scenario analysis with the use of just a couple of input data that even a regular non-finance guy can understand so at the end of the course you will be able to prepare the finacial plan of your start-up business using our Feanut Financial Model.

No specific finance or accounting background is required, and the course is not aimed at teaching you the details of accounting mechanics nor complexities of financial modeling in Excel. The course contains of almost 4 hours of video lectures and as part of the course you will also receive a 90-page model giude.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is best for start-up entrepreneurs with limted financial and accounting background who would like to prepare a financial plan for their business and would like to learn something about the financial modeling for start-ups.
  • This course is not intended to teach details of advanced Excel functions, nor it is an accounting course. It is aimed at those who need to put together financial projections without going deep into the details of financial statements, accounting rules or complex calculations in Excel.

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