financial modelling in excel

giddy up! you have never heard of financial modeling, but you magically know how to do it first day on the job. you don't have to go to business school or get an MBA like millions of others, because you are born with the knowledge.

On 3 Jan 2006 18:19:43 -0800, in alt.accounting snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :

If English is your first language, you don't know financial modeling, in Excel or anywhere else.

If English is not your first language, financial modeling is developing a prediction of results based on specific financial assumptions. This could be for budgets, pricing, sales, profitability analysis or other financial problems.

anbody who knows absolutely nothing about financial model will immediately think, "yeah, FM must be easy. anybody who can read and add, and turn on excel can do it."