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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling
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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

by Wayne L. Winston
January 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
720 pages
23h 29m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 50. Modeling Exponential Growth

Question answered in this chapter:

  • How can I model the growth of a company’s revenue over time?

If you want to value a company, it’s important to have some idea about its future revenues. Although the future might not be like the past, you often begin a valuation analysis of a corporation by studying the company’s revenue growth during the recent past. Many analysts like to fit a trend curve to recent revenue growth. To fit a trend curve, you plot the year on the x-axis (for example, the first year of data is Year 1, the second year of data is Year 2, and so on), and on the y-axis, you plot the company’s revenue.

Usually, the relationship between time and revenue is not a straight line. Recall that a straight ...

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