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Financial modeling strategies

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Financial modeling strategies

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- [Instructor] Building out a financial model is not as hard as it seems. Let's take a step back and look at the overall process. There are six steps in building a financial model. Step one involves going through and gathering the data that we need to build that model. Typically, we're gonna start with our historical financial statements. So we need to gather them up and then we need to read them and make sure that they make sense. Reading them is not as bad as it often seems. So if you're not an accounting person and you're adverse to financial information, I recommend you go through and give it a try. They're really not as complicated as you might think. Second, our next step is to go through and change the arrangement of the financial statements. We need to make sure that we've got them arranged, income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and that they make sense from a readability standpoint. So we wanna make sure that we're starting with revenue through net income, and…

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