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An introduction to checklists in modelling

"Years of knowledge, experience and organisational memory may be captured by a good checklist."

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Small things make a difference

"Had it been a FAST model, the issue would have been spotted quickly"

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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"

Build, Review, Support, Training

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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