Learn how financial modeling projects future performance and supports strategic planning with essential components like ...

Understanding financial statements plays a key role in building robust financial models that can impact the potential valuation of your company. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

Preparing to raise a round of funding is one of the most important tasks every founder has to do. Compiling a deck, a teaser, and an executive summary requires a thorough understanding of a startup’s ...

Financial modeling predicts a company’s financial performance using historical data. Financial modeling aids in decision-making for budgeting, investing, and valuation. Models can apply to diverse ...

The ongoing market downturn and layoffs at tech companies have caused a great deal of alarm across the startup and venture capital worlds, but growth-stage startups are expected to bear the brunt of ...

Risk modeling comes in varying shapes and sizes throughout the financial world. Having previously worked as a derivatives trader on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and as a senior risk analyst, I ...

What if you could predict a company’s financial future with precision, make data-driven decisions, and impress stakeholders, all using one tool? Excel, often underestimated as a simple spreadsheet ...

The Financial Modeling Section presents the “numbers” behind the business. It is here that you outline the total investment that you’re looking for, how you’ll use the capital and the projected value ...

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Merton, Robert C. "On the Mathematics and Economic Assumptions of Continuous-Time Financial Models." In Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner, edited by W. F. Sharpe and C. M. Cootner.

The most powerful external force shaping corporate performance in 2025 isn’t the economy. It’s state policy. A new wave of lawmaking is redefining labor classification, environmental practices, ...