Building a successful career in the finance domain requires relevant skills for understanding, organizing, analyzing, and extracting insights, from a company's financial data. There has been a significant increase in the demand for financial modeling and valuation skills, as managing data and making data-based decisions has become crucial for new-age organizations.
Financial modeling specialists summarise an organization's expenditure and income in a spreadsheet, to understand how future decisions or events would impact the company financially. Some commonly used financial models include leveraged buyout (LBO) model, discounted cash flow model, sum-of-the-parts model, and merger & acquisition (M&A) model, required for analyzing and taking finance-related decisions in different scenarios. The financial models or modeling tools are also used to estimate the company's valuation and compare it with competitors in the industry.
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Required knowledge and skills for financial modeling and valuation
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Knowledge of Excel and accounting and finance is the prerequisite for securing a successful career in financial modeling and valuation. You must know how to use basic tools, financial modeling tools, and formatting and conditions in excel. For building an understanding of investment decision techniques, you must know about the time value of money, future value and compounding, present value, net present value (NPV) and discount rate, internal rate of return (IRR), and payback period. Knowledge of how to apply the decision techniques and analyze financial statements is also essential. Mastery in essential valuation concepts like absolute valuation (DCF Method) and relative valuation would enhance your chances of landing a lucrative position across any industry of your choice.
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