Tag: Excel for Finance
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Working Capital Optimization – Case Study, Concepts & Interview Questions
The Importance of Working Capital Optimization Understanding, managing, and optimizing working capital can dramatically improve a company’s liquidity, profitability, and operational efficiency. 🔍 What is Working Capital? Working Capital = Current Assets – Current LiabilitiesIt represents the short-term financial health of a business and its efficiency in using assets. Components: 🧩 Why Optimize Working Capital?…
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Master Financial Modeling in Excel – From Basics to Advanced Forecasting
Mastering financial modeling is essential for anyone looking to work in finance, business analysis, or consulting. This step-by-step Excel tutorial walks you through the complete process of building a fully integrated financial model from scratch. You’ll learn to forecast revenues, build dynamic Profit & Loss statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow statements, and perform valuation…
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Extract Numbers from Text in Excel Using VBA – Works for Indian & European Formats
🧾 Scenario: At Shree Tech Pvt. Ltd., Priya is a finance executive handling a lot of messy Excel data received from multiple vendors and sales teams across India and Europe. One day, she encounters a peculiar problem.In the “Remarks” column, instead of clean numbers, she sees entries like: She needs to extract only the numeric…
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What is the STOCKHISTORY Function?
The STOCKHISTORY function in Excel 365 allows you to pull historical stock prices (or other financial instruments) directly from Excel’s data service — without needing external plugins or manual downloads. 📌 Available only in: 🔧 Syntax of STOCKHISTORY 📘 Arguments Explained: Argument Description stock Stock ticker symbol or company name. For example: “TCS.NS”, “AAPL” start_date…