You may be wondering who uses financial forecasting, how the forecasts are used, or if such forecasts are even reliable. All these questions will be answered in this course, Financial Forecasting in Excel. Financial modeling and forecasting can improve your business decision-making by helping you determine how best to allocate business resources to address expected expenditures in the coming months and years.

The best tool to create a financial model is a widely familiar application such as Microsoft Excel. In this course, we will use a fictional company as an example to build our financial model and forecast. Having a basic understanding of Excel and a general familiarity with accounting principles is helpful. The course includes instructor files and exercise files so you can follow along and practice what you've learned.