Building Financial Models, Chapter 3 - Setting the Stage

This chapter is from Building Financial Models, widely acclaimed by accounting and finance professionals for its insight into determining a company’s current value and projecting its future performance. Building on this tradition, the updated and expanded Second Edition helps readers develop a financial model, complete with entirely new material on discounted cash flow (DCF) modeling.Professionals will find this guide invaluable for bothits practical, step-by-step approach to creating a coremodel and its broad coverage of model mechanics andfoundational accounting and finance concepts.