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What if my existing model isn’t FAST?

"Nobody likes my answer - which is to rebuild the model using a modelling standard"

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Spreadsheet Errors are avoidable

Why is it that in 2014 we are still talking about spreadsheet errors as if they were inevitable?

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Lessons Modellers Can Learn From the Design Professions

"I inherited an appalling, over complex, and, frankly untidy series of spreadsheets"

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The advantages of the OFFSET function in Excel…

"My flight is being called and I still cannot think of a single advantage to using OFFSET"

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Wow, howl or shocked silence: What is your response to a new spreadsheet model?

"Interim FAST modelling is FAST modelling but undertaken in an existing non FAST model"

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Model Optimisation – Turning theory into practice

"FAST financial models, with transparency at their core, are designed to satisfy key stakeholders quickly and easily that their objectives are being met"

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New ebook: Business Analysis Lifecycle

"Communicating with people in the real world can be a challenge for those who live in the model world"

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The Excel modelling guru

Like most stereotypes, the Excel modelling guru is an amalgam of different people that we all recognise

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New ebook: S-curve modelling in oil and gas

Capex modelling has a huge impact on value creation and the future profitability of the project

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Guest post – sectoral differences in pricing financial model builds

The “Agile” approach works well in situations where no one knows the outcome

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