Revenue makes cash go up. Costs make cash go down. Your model should reflect reality.
XLOOKUP is elegant, modern, and convenient. But for serious financial modelling work, INDEX MATCH still wins.
Why the financial modelling world’s sacred cow deserves a proper kicking — and what you should use instead.
Businesses don’t build financial models because it’s good practice — they build them because they need to make high-stakes decisions with imperfect information.
A structured representation of a business, project, or transaction — built in a spreadsheet to quantify the financial outcomes of different scenarios.
The principles of data-ink ratio and chartjunk elimination are four decades old. Most corporate reporting still ignores them.