Learn Financial Modeling Essentials in Excel (FREE Crash Course)

Kenji Explains • September 7, 2025
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Learn Financial Modeling in Excel step by step with this free crash course. 📈 Take our Complete Finance & Valuation Course Here: https://www.careerprinciples.com/courses/finance-valuation-course 🆓 DOWNLOAD Free Excel file for this video: https://careerprinciples.myflodesk.com/hbb3bvkx94 In this video, you learn the essentials of financial modeling in Excel. We'll start with a blank Excel file and progress all the way to creating a fully dynamic financial model. Along the way, we'll also go over some key Excel tips. First, we'll set up the income statement while going over financial modeling best practices. Then we'll go over the best forecasting methods for line items like revenue. Following this, we'll go over the cover page and the role it plays as a control panel in a financial model. Then we work on making the model dynamic by adding a scenario analysis where we can choose from best case, base case, or worst case. Finally, we'll go over how to lock cells using data validation and protect the entire financial model from any changes. LEARN: 👉 Excel for Business & Finance Course: https://www.careerprinciples.com/courses/excel-for-business-finance 🔥 Power BI for Business Analytics: https://www.careerprinciples.com/courses/power-bi-for-business-analytics 🚀 All our courses: https://www.careerprinciples.com/all-courses ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Chapters: 0:00​ -​ Model Setup 4:54​ - Revenue Forecast 8:33​ - Forecasting Other Line Items 12:30​ - Model Cover Page 15:45​ - Making the Model Dynamic 19:47​ - Locking Cells & Protecting Sheet