课程: Financial Modeling Foundations

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Business questions and financial models

Business questions and financial models

- [Instructor] Financial modeling lets us evaluate very specific sets of circumstances and make decisions based on those situations. Since the kind of decisions we make in business differ under various circumstances, the models that we use to evaluate those decisions differ as well. There's a few major types of financial models that you'll encounter in a business setting. The first of these is what we call a corporate financial model, or a three statement model. The goal in a corporate model or three statement model is just to understand how the firm is performing and how it's expected to perform in the future. So it helps us to evaluate where the firm is going if things continue as they have been in the past. To build this kind of model, we're gonna use the corporation's history. All firms generally have a history unless they're a brand new startup. We assume that that corporation will last indefinitely in the future. Now that probably won't happen in reality of course, but it does…

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