Excel for Finance

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📹Videos(3)

Wall Street Prep (WSP) YouTube Channel: Financial Modeling in Excel

Official YouTube channel providing free video tutorials and guides on financial modeling in Excel, brought to you by Wall Street Prep, a highly regarded provider of intensive financial modeling training.

intermediate🇬🇧

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Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) YouTube Channel: Excel for Finance Tutorials

Official YouTube channel offering numerous free video tutorials, tips, and walk-throughs on using Excel for financial analysis, modeling, and various finance functions, from a leading financial training institution.

beginner🇬🇧

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Edward Bodmer's YouTube Channel

Hosts hundreds of long-form screen recordings of Excel model-building with narration, covering complete models. The production quality is deliberately unprofessional, focusing on direct knowledge sharing.

advanced🇬🇧

📚Books(1)

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Corporate and Project Finance Modeling

An Excel modeling manual covering debt sculpting, DSCR-driven sizing, cash flow waterfalls, Monte Carlo simulation without add-ins, and custom spreadsheet functions that resolve circular references without VBA macros. This is the 1st edition, published in 2014 and is 624 pages. Considered to unlock Bodmer's extensive free online ecosystem.

advanced🇬🇧

🌐Websites(9)

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Simtools – Free Monte Carlo Simulation Add-in for Excel

Free Monte Carlo simulation and statistical functions Excel add-in created by Nobel laureate Roger Myerson at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

intermediate🇬🇧

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A Simple Model – Free LBO Modeling Tutorials

Arguably the best free LBO tutorial series, with unedited walkthroughs and downloadable Excel files. Highly practical for learning LBO modeling from scratch.

intermediate🇬🇧

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OpenBB – Open-Source Financial Data Platform

The most credible open-source Bloomberg alternative, providing financial data and analytics for equities, fixed income, and macroeconomic data.

intermediate🇬🇧

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numpy-financial – Financial Functions for Python

Free Python library covering basic financial functions: NPV, IRR, PMT, and amortization — essential building blocks for financial modeling.

beginner🇬🇧

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QuantLib – Open-Source Quantitative Finance Library

Industry-grade open-source tools for yield curve modeling, MBS prepayment models, and interest rate derivatives.

advanced🇬🇧

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AbsBox – Open-Source ABS/MBS Cashflow Modeling Library

Remarkable open-source Python library specifically designed for ABS/MBS cashflow modeling, with human-readable waterfall definitions and sensitivity analysis capabilities.

advanced🇬🇧

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Chandoo.org: Master Excel for Financial Applications

A highly respected website offering extensive free tutorials, tips, and articles on advanced Excel techniques, charting, data analysis, and VBA, crucial for building robust financial models and dashboards.

intermediate🇬🇧

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Bodmer Free Resource Library (Google Drive)

A free resource library containing additional case studies and models. Access requires emailing edwardbodmer@gmail.com. Edward Bodmer also offers regular weekend modeling sessions and free guest lectures at universities.

advanced🇬🇧

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Edwardbodmer.com

An unmatched free ecosystem in structured finance education, hosting dozens of downloadable Excel models for project finance and corporate finance, with embedded YouTube video walkthroughs. Features User-Defined Function (UDF) approach to resolving circular references. The site is active and regularly updated as of early 2026, with models covering solar, wind, thermal, hydro, toll roads, ports, airports, hotels, mining, oil, agriculture, PPPs, and manufacturing.

advanced🇬🇧

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