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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019

You're reading from   Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019 Build practical models for forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis using Excel 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534627
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shmuel Oluwa Shmuel Oluwa
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Financial Modeling - Overview FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Financial Modeling and Excel 3. Steps for Building a Financial Model 4. Section 2: The Use of Excel - Features and Functions for Financial Modeling
5. Formulas and Functions - Completing Modeling Tasks with a Single Formula 6. Applying the Referencing Framework in Excel 7. Section 3: Building an Integrated Financial Model
8. Understanding Project and Building Assumptions 9. Asset and Debt Schedules 10. Cash Flow Statement 11. Valuation 12. Ratio Analysis 13. Model Testing for Reasonableness and Accuracy 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Working with lookup functions

Lookup functions are some of the most widely used functions in Excel. Generally, the intention is to fetch a value from one table (the source) to the active cell in which you are typing the formula (the target). Essentially, the function guides Excel to identify a row and column in the source table. The intersection of that row and column will give you the source cell whose value you want to extract. For example, say you have a sales report that includes data for various products sold within a specified period and you wish to populate a field, Product Cost, with the cost of each of the products in your report.

The following screenshot is a sample sales report showing details of daily sales including Product, Salesperson, and other details:

Unit Cost for each product can be obtained from a products database.

You could use a lookup function to locate...

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