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Financial Modeling for a Business Plan

by Devin Thorpe

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.

What you'll learn

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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About the author

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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