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  1. Walddy Paulino

    The videos were ditaled and easy to follow. Making then easy to understand even if I could not use Excel at the moment since I’m no with my laptop.

  2. Aalok Mody

    I/S – PBT should be off EBIT
    CFS – Opening cash balance should subtract revolver, Additions to intangibles are linking to amort
    Debt tab – Int rates off by 1 column

  3. Aalok Mody

    Calcs – Net income off by a column, Dividends off by a column, Share issuances should not be part of R/E
    I/S – EPS calc should be off net income, Dividends should be off net income
    CFS – Change in debt should not include revolver

  4. Aalok Mody

    I/S – EBITDA = EBIT + D&A, Missing circ switch on interest, Interest expense should be total, not just revolver, PBT should be off EBIT, Dividends should be off net income
    Calcs – Need to solve for A/R using A/R days formula, Need to solve for A/P using A/P days formula
    Debt tab – There are 2 different tranches of LT debt with different interest rates – need to model out separately

  5. Aalok Mody

    B/S – Missing cash, Revolver should be -min
    Calcs – OWC formula is incorrect
    Debt – int income and expense formulas should be avg balance * rate, your parenthesis is off

  6. Sherilyn Khuu

    Very helpful and concise & breaks down everything in a easy way to understand. However, sometimes the interactive freezes and even refreshing wont work. I had to sometimes restart the module again.

  7. Brian Bland-Clark

    Matrix integrity error in AP calc on CALCS tab
    Do not use IF statements for Cash / Revolver – we didn’t count off here but would be considered wrong in the real world. Only a MAX / MIN function.

  8. Brian Bland-Clark

    Matrix integrity error on div calc
    Mistake in AP calculation (off of COGS not Rev)
    Missing total int exp on debt schedule
    Missing dividends on IS
    Miss linked LT liabilities on CFS

  9. Brian Bland-Clark

    Dividend matrix integrity error on calcs tab
    AP calculation linked to REV not COGS
    INT EXP calc on Senior Notes is wrong
    Missing total int exp line on debt schedule
    INT EXP line on IS linked to wrong row on debt schedule
    LT liabilities miss linked on CFS

  10. Matthew Holaves

    for the if statements on interest income and interest expense, you need to complete the if statement by adding a 0 at the end. if i change the circ toggle to 0, your model says false for these line items.

  11. Matthew Holaves

    You need to link the revolver line item on the debt schedule to the balance sheet to calculate interest on the revolver. you are taking the average of the years? i know you know better 🙂

    also for row 34 on the debt schedule… cell d34 includes the revolver. this should just be all the long term debt. no revolver. this is why the balance sheet did not balance by 40.

  12. Matthew Holaves

    Profit before tax needs to be calculated off EBIT not EBITDA. Interest expense on the income statement is being linked to a blank cell rather than row 30 on the debt schedule. Also, must net revolver balance out of historical cash on the CFS. Historical cash should be cash less revolver

  13. Peter Holaves

    Use the historical balances for cash and revolver from the balance sheet to link back to the debt schedule and then copy across the projected years on the debt schedule.

  14. Peter Holaves

    Cash interest income on the debt schedule should use the average of ending balances. The revolver on the debt schedule should be linked the balance sheet. The revolver on the balance sheet should use a “-min”

  15. Matthew Holaves

    CFS – Net income on the CFS should start with projected year 1 in column F not column D, NCI net income is an add back and should link to row 27 on income statement – the NCI net income is non cash

    IS – Profit before tax should be calculated off of EBIT not EBITDA
    Debt schedule – Interest income should be calculated off average balance starting with column D and E – there is a matrix integrity issue

  16. Matthew Holaves

    IS – Need to include Circ toogle
    Calcs – Capex needs to be a % of sales not gross profit
    CFS – missing amortization in CFO, CFI – Capex and additions to intangibles need to be negative, CFI – you dont need row 19, you have already accounted for the NCI net income and the NCI dividends
    BS – make sure to include formulas for cash and revolver to balance the model

  17. Matthew Holaves

    IS – Profit before tax should be based on EBIT not EBITDA, Net income available to common needs to subtract NCI net income not add it, Missing circ toogle for years 2 through 5
    CFS – Needs to start with Net income available to common,
    BS – total liabilities calculation needs to include current liabilities
    Calcs – RE earnings needs to be calculated with Net income available to common

    • Brian Bland-Clark

      Eric, Thanks for your comment. You do not want to do the above for a number of reasons that frankly won’t fit in a comment reply box. Suffice it to say, that a balance sheet check should always be formatted to 0.000 decimal points, and should never have an IF statement (or anything else for that matter!)

  18. Sosna Biniam

    Very helpful. I found the interactives helpful but they did sometimes glitch and not let me redo the problem if I made a mistake, and wouldn’t let me see the correct answer.