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Model Optimisation – Turning theory into practice

"FAST financial models, with transparency at their core, are designed to satisfy key stakeholders quickly and easily that their objectives are being met"

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New ebook: Business Analysis Lifecycle

"Communicating with people in the real world can be a challenge for those who live in the model world"

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Why labels matter in modelling – Interest on a loan

"Unique labels can also help to bust jargon"

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Introducing the Financial Modelling Handbook

New insights are emerging all the time as people apply the principles of FAST to their area of modelling

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The Excel modelling guru

Like most stereotypes, the Excel modelling guru is an amalgam of different people that we all recognise

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New ebook: S-curve modelling in oil and gas

Capex modelling has a huge impact on value creation and the future profitability of the project

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10 Presentation pitfalls to avoid

Avoid these presentation pitfalls, and hopefully you'll find your career progressing faster

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What can financial modellers learn from car manufacturers?

FAST models use links and calculation blocks to take standard modules and make the coding specific

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Guest post – sectoral differences in pricing financial model builds

The “Agile” approach works well in situations where no one knows the outcome

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Why fixed price financial modelling contracts are bad news for everyone

Why fixed price contracts are generally bad news for modelling projects

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Please stop using pie charts

Pie charts are useful for one thing and one thing only: communicating that a series of numbers add up to 100%. That’s it.

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Where the @%*$ is the model?

Your comment relating to the ‘traditional life-cycle’ of building financial models made me smile

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Financial modelling is a team sport

In the past, financial modelling was a one-man show with everything depending on the "modelling guru"