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Excel Formulas For Financial Analysts Textbook

A free, self-paced textbook in 7 chapters. Read a chapter, then drill it with the 164 companion flashcards using spaced repetition.

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Chapters

  1. 1Time Value of Money

    Excel's time-value-of-money toolkit lets an analyst move between lump sums, streams, and rates without leaving the spreadsheet. The workhorse is `=NPV(rate, value1, value2, ...)`,...

  2. 2Bonds, Yield & Cost of Capital

    Bond pricing and risk metrics live in a tight cluster of fixed-income functions. `=PRICE(settlement, maturity, coupon, yld, redemption, frequency, basis)` returns the clean price g...

  3. 3Valuation & DCF Mechanics

    A discounted cash flow model is a five-step assembly: forecast unlevered cash flows, choose a discount rate, compute the terminal value, discount the entire stream back to today, a...

  4. 4Financial Statement Modeling & Ratios

    A disciplined financial model expresses the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement as a single waterfall of accounts. Reading top-down, the canonical line items a...

  5. 5Lookups, References & Dynamic Arrays

    The lookup family has been redesigned around XLOOKUP, but understanding the legacy functions remains important. `=VLOOKUP(value, table, col, FALSE)` looks up by the leftmost column...

  6. 6What-If, Optimization & Simulation

    Excel's What-If tools translate an analyst's question into the structure the engine can solve. Goal Seek sets a single input cell so that a single output cell hits a target value —...

  7. 7Data Shaping, Dates, Pivots & DAX

    When raw data is messy or comes from multiple systems, Power Query is the right first stop. Power Query connects to a CSV, SQL database, or API, applies a sequence of transform ste...

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