Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies

About the Author

Danielle Stein Fairhurst is a professional financial modeler with many years’ experience as a financial modeling analyst. She helps her clients create meaningful financial models in the form of business cases, pricing models, and management reports. She has hands-on experience in a number of industry sectors, including telecoms, information systems, manufacturing, and financial services. She is also the author of Using Excel for Business Analysis: A Guide to Financial Modelling Fundamentals (Wiley Finance).

Danielle has regular engagements in Australia and around the world as a speaker, course facilitator, financial modeling consultant, and analyst. Her custom-built training courses have been described by attendees as well presented, neatly structured, informative, practical, and extremely relevant to their everyday needs. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), and has taught management accounting subjects at Sydney University. Danielle is the founder of the Financial Modelling in Excel LinkedIn forum, which has more than 40,000 members worldwide. She also founded Modelers’ Meetup groups with over 5,000 members in seven countries. She was a recent guest on Excel TV and has been interviewed for several industry podcasts.

Dedication

For Mike, as always.

Author’s Acknowledgments

First, I must thank the many thousands of student modelers I’ve trained over the years both in face-to-face training courses ...