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Colours speak – The language of colour

Colour is a transparent and effective way to communicate meaning within excel models.

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10 useful (and easy) things to remember about FAST modelling

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The more we give away; the more people want to buy from us

"If the stuff shared for free is good, then how much better must the stuff they charge for be?"

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Should FAST be good for everything?

Standards in themselves do not promote good or best practice. They simply promote a way of doing things that is commonly understood by the community that chooses to adopt them.

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The Financial Modelling Handbook needs your help

The Financial Modelling Handbook is looking to produce the first version of the handbook and it is looking for your input and help.

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Spreadsheets play a critical role in business decision making globally

Warren Buffet famously said “Beware of geeks bearing formulas”.

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Modelling Standards do not equal Standard Models

Can one model do everything?

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Assessing ROI of your financial modelling training – 5 questions to ask

The best courses will recognise that there is work to be done once the classroom course is finished.

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Nine things not to think about when building a FAST model

So what happens to all that spare thinking time? Where does it go?

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Whose model is it anyway?

Where’s the individual who built the last version? Somewhere else probably, and busy. So what do you do?

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‘The model says so’ is never an acceptable answer

It may well be, and very often is the case that the model is right, but you have to be able to explain what is going on

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Spreadsheets are a laboratory: a place to test business hypotheses

Once the modeller understands how a particular area of a business works commercially, it is much more straightforward to create a spreadsheet model.

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Online courses vs. live training

Both learning methods are continually compared and contrasted, and both have their fervent-supporter camps. But one has to be better than the other, right??