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Financial Modeling for a Business Plan

This course will provide students with solid Excel skills and the ability to prepare a detailed operational financial model to provide to prospective investors and to help run their businesses.

Devin Thorpe - Pluralsight course - Financial Modeling for a Business Plan
Devin Thorpe
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This course will provide students with solid Excel skills and the ability to prepare a detailed operational financial model to provide to prospective investors and to help run their businesses. The completed model will not only provide a monthly income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow forecasts for five years (along with quarterly and annual summary data), but also a one-page summary of all the data, providing a powerful endcap to the model and the course.

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Devin Thorpe - Pluralsight course - Financial Modeling for a Business Plan
Devin Thorpe

Devin Thorpe, a "champion of social good," writes about, advocates for and advises change agents. Crowdfunding is a favorite tool for catalyzing change. He is a Forbes Contributor and a contributing editor at CrowdFundBeat. His books on personal finance and crowdfunding draw on his decades of entrepreneurial finance experience and his Cornell MBA.

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