Training When is the right time to invest in the finance function? "The Finance function is only being invested in when its failures are severely hurting the business"
Build, Review, Support, Training In praise of charts Smart use of quick charts can help turn a number cruncher into a chief executive
Build A quick and dirty test for optimism bias "How can we, as project modellers, get comfort that the risk analysis has been factored into the base case assumptions?"
Build, Review An introduction to checklists in modelling "Years of knowledge, experience and organisational memory may be captured by a good checklist."
Training What if my existing model isn’t FAST? "Nobody likes my answer - which is to rebuild the model using a modelling standard"
Training Spreadsheet Errors are avoidable Why is it that in 2014 we are still talking about spreadsheet errors as if they were inevitable?
Training 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"
Training 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"
Training 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"
Training New ebook: Business Analysis Lifecycle "Communicating with people in the real world can be a challenge for those who live in the model world"
Build, Review, Support, Training The Excel modelling guru Like most stereotypes, the Excel modelling guru is an amalgam of different people that we all recognise
Build, Review, Support, Training 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