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Financial Modeling Using Excel

Envision the Future: Financial Modeling Using Excel

Created byBlair Cook Jennifer Nicholson
IntermediateUpdated Apr 15, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleLearn the fundamentals of financial modeling in Excel.
  • check_circleBuild a complete three-statement financial projection.
  • check_circleUnderstand the role of modeling in corporate finance decisions.
  • check_circleApply structured techniques to maintain model accuracy.
  • check_circleUse models to support budgeting, forecasting, and valuations.
  • check_circleEnsure model credibility through best practices and controls.

About This Course

This course teaches you how to build reliable financial models using Excel to support key business and strategic decisions. Financial models are essential tools used for planning, budgeting, forecasting, valuations, fundraising, and more. In this course, the focus is on creating complete financial projections—including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

You’ll learn a structured approach to building models that maintain integrity and credibility throughout the process. Whether you're new to modeling or looking to sharpen your skills, this course will equip you with the techniques and best practices to develop professional-grade financial models.

Course Content

1 activity • 7 videos • duration: 1h 27m

  • videocamPlanning Your Financial Model
    Duration 9:18
  • videocamSetting Up Your Financial Model
    Duration 12:28
  • videocamModelling the Income Statement
    Duration 13:03
  • videocamModelling the Balance Sheet
    Duration 16:37
  • videocamModelling the Cash Flow Statement
    Duration 14:22
  • videocamAdvanced Financial Modelling
    Duration 13:58
  • videocam5 Fantastic Excel Features for the Financial Modeler
    Duration 7:48
  • quizFinal Exam Financial Modeling

Your Instructor

Blair Cook Jennifer Nicholson

CPA, CA Leadership

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Blair is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies: Terravest Industries and Clarke Inc. He is also the Board Treasurer of the Devour Food & Film Festival and serves on various committees of CPA Nova Scotia. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
103 reviews
  • MB
    Muhammad B.
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    Yes it was great course

  • BS
    Brian S.
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    Very solid course with good content, notes, examples, etc.

  • LV
    Leora V.
    starstarstarstarstar

    Very well presented

  • SM
    Steven M.
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    great course - lots of details and a nice organized way to do the modelling

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a registered provider with 300+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 27 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.

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