Who should build it?

Financial modeling for a new business is hard for founders

It’s hard for accountants

And it’s hard for seasoned finance people,

But for each, it’s hard for different reason:

• For founders, it’s tough to translate their business idea into numbers.

• For accountants, it’s tough to leave behind historical financials and benchmark thinking and to transition to drivers and assumptions.

• And for finance people, it’s tough to build a model that makes any sense to anybody who isn’t a banker MBA from a top 10 bschool.
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So how does anyone get it done?

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❌ You can hire a finance person to build you a model, but if you don’t understand it, you’ll never use it.
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❌ You can hire an accountant to build you a model, but it won’t forecast anything, so it’ll be useless.

OR

✅ You can learn how to build your own financial model and enjoy the bonus upside of truly understanding your business numbers.
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The choice is yours,

But the right answer

Is kinda obvious.
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