Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions
Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions may be one of the most important books any entrepreneur or manager in a small or medium-sized enterprise will read. It combine...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Colección: | The expert's voice in financial modeling Financial modeling for business owners and entrepreneurs
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629453606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Technical Reviewer ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: The Foundations of Financial Modeling""; ""Chapter 1: Business Thinking and Financial Modeling: Success Starts with the Right Mindset""; ""Analyzing, Demonstrating, and Explaining the Value of the Financial Model""; ""Attracting the Resources You Need to Grow Your Business""; ""The Big Questions""; ""Strategies That Build Value and Credibility""; ""Performance and Execution Strategies""; ""Getting There Fast""; ""Taking Early Action""
- ""Using a Feedback Loop and Responding Rapidly""""Using Prototypes for Simultaneous Research and Selling""; ""Being Agile with Technology and Product Development""; ""Remembering that Cash Is King""; ""Keeping Good Books""; ""People and Process Strategies""; ""Securing the Team""; ""Putting Skin in the Game""; ""Sealing the Deal Early""; ""Planning for Growth""; ""Ownership and Control Strategies""; ""Knowing What You Own""; ""Owning Technology""; ""Common Ways of Getting Stuck""; ""Looking at Your Company from the Perspective of Value""; ""The Value-Based Enterprise Perspective""
- ""Four Primary Value Events""""Proof of Product (POP)""; ""Proof of Market (POM)""; ""Proof of Scale (POS)""; ""Cash Flow Positive""; ""Critical Thinking about the Business and Financial Model""; ""Financial Model Design Principles""; ""Financial Model Design Dimensions""; ""Ability to Generate Standard Financial Reports""; ""The Unique Structure of your Business Model""; ""Operating Variables""; ""Period of Performance""; ""Major Functions Performed by the Model""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: The Company Business Model: Envisioning and Realizing Your Future""; ""Designing a Company""
- ""Business Thinking About Financial Modeling""""Applying the Project Planning View""; ""Applying the Software Development View""; ""Creating the Company Business Model""; ""Using the Top-Down Approach""; ""Deriving the Model Structure""; ""Developing Operational Models""; ""Developing Financial and Reporting Models""; ""Organizing the Sequence of the Models""; ""Suggested Sequence of Development for the Operating Models""; ""Required Sequence of Development of the Financial Models""; ""Understanding the Worksheet Types and Naming Conventions""; ""Defining the Period of Performance""
- ""Developing the Models� Design and Functionality""""Initiating and Planning the Model""; ""Outlining the Functional Requirements of the Model""; ""Creating the Top-Level Model Design Specifications""; ""Performing Calculations""; ""Building, or Coding, the Model""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Green Devil Control Systems: Our Business Case""; ""Founding Green Devil Control Systems""; ""Giving Birth to the Idea""; ""Getting the Company Started""; ""Testing Market Feasibility""; ""Assessing Technical Feasibility""; ""Validating Resource Feasibility""; ""Designing the Company""
- ""Stating the Company Purpose""
