Principles of financial modelling: model design and best practices using Excel and VBA
A practical guide to financial modelling, demonstrating how to plan, design and build financial models.
Financial modelling and forecasting
Find out more about building financial models, the pitfalls of financial modelling and how to carry out effective forecasting.
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Demolishing uncertainty
On the basis of research involving 25,000 forecasters and a million predictions, the authors identified a set of practices that can improve companies’ prediction capability: providing training in the basics of statistics, assembling teams of forecasters, tracking performance and giving feedback.
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Featured guide
Financial modelling code
(ICAEW, 2018)
Building on the earlier guide, the Twenty principles for good spreadsheet practice, this
thought leadership guide from ICAEW's IT Faculty sets out guidance on what the Faculty sees as the universal tenets of best
practice in the field.
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Financial modeling in Excel for Dummies
A beginner's guide to financial modeling using Microsoft Excel.
Financial controller and CFOs toolkit, The: lean practices to transform your finance team
This title is a handbook and toolkit with over 100 lean practice solutions and practical tools for senior financial managers of small, medium and large companies. Includes templates and checklists which help you adhere to the best practices in reporting, forecasting, KPIs, planning, strategy, and technology.
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The Library provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
Demolishing uncertainty
On the basis of research involving 25,000 forecasters and a million predictions, the authors identified a set of practices that can improve companies’ prediction capability: providing training in the basics of statistics, assembling teams of forecasters, tracking performance and giving feedback.
Volatility forecasting using financial statement information
This paper examines whether financial statement information can predict future realized equity volatility incremental to market-based equity volatility forecasts. The paper uses an analytical framework to identify accounting-based drivers of realized volatility.
What's in your leadership toolbox?
Finance teams have been moving from counting wealth and policing compliance to creating wealth and strategy, so they need to broaden and upgrade some of their skills. As well as traditional finance functions, senior finance executives and their teams are now often expected to do financial modeling, data analytics, consider cyber security, risk management and more. The authors present their framework to help finance executives develop their leadership abilities.
Articles and books in the Library collection
Financial modelling
(ICAEW, 2016)
Best-practice guideline from ICAEW's Corporate Finance Faculty, aimed at corporate financiers who need to prepare, use or review financial models for deals.
Next generation Excel modelling in Excel for analysts and MBAs (for Windows and Mac OS)
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Covers advanced business decision making, financial, and accounting functions. The book demonstrates how to create models to boost efficiency and improve your forecasting ability.
Business and financial models
(Kogan Page, 2013)
A step-by-step guide to building a financial model, from formulating questions to monitoring performance. .
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