The objective of financial modeling is to combine accounting, finance, and business metrics to create an abstract representation of a company in Excel, forecasted into the future. In other words; financial modeling is a representation in numbers of a company’s operations in the past, present, and the forecasted future. Such models are intended to be used as decision-making tools. Financial models are used to estimate the valuation of a business or to compare businesses to their peers in the industry.
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