Guide to Business Modelling
This fully updated, revised, and expanded edition of the definitive guide to creating business models can be used to evaluate opportunities from a modest business proposal to a major acquisition. It will enable anyone to learn how to model business projects or improve their business modelling skills. Following an introduction and chapters on using Excel and the spreadsheet functions and features that are essential for business modelling, it looks at:The business model planning and development processDefining the outputsUncertainty, scenario planning, and model inputsDeveloping the scenariosManaging the model-building processBest practice in model structure andsheet designGraphical presentationForecasting revenueOperating costsCapital expenditure and working capitalModelling funding choicesFinancial statement developmentProject appraisal and company valuationTesting and debuggingIntroduction to programming and macrosFrom spreadsheet to applicationDriving the modelDocumenting the modelThe book is accompanied by a website where there is a range of examples to download: www.guidetobusinessmodelling.com