The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 21, 2024

A finance director at a large niche pharmaceutical company told us: “We have a lot of manual processes and inputting and that type of stuff which I am trying to get away from. One workaround found in cumbersome financial reporting processes includes using old legacy Excel-based financial models.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Data Analysis Financial Modeling 40

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One reason is that valuation, at least as practiced, has become financial modeling, where Excel ninjas pull numbers from financial statements, put them into spreadsheets and extrapolate based upon past trends.

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Advertising Numbers 130

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One reason is that valuation, at least as practiced, has become financial modeling, where Excel ninjas pull numbers from financial statements, put them into spreadsheets and extrapolate based upon past trends.

Valuation 90

Valuation Advertising Numbers Investments 90

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I think that was part of how my changing, I, I had already realized from the tobacco companies that the magic of their financial model was the huge amount of free cash flow and that they were producing the gap earnings versus the analyst adjusted. What I didn’t do was look at free cash flow.

Benchmarking 102

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 102