1. Financial Modeling Data Collection & Integration Graph Rates of Return
Efficient Portfolio Frontier
Regression
CAPM
Vitex.xls

2. Finance Ribbon Use the Finance Ribbon
Download Ribbon.xlam from the website (use firefox or chrome, explorer changes this to an .xlsm file)
Save as Finance.xlam on your own computer or on your USB
Open Finance.xlam whenever you open Excel

3. Best Practice Color coding is found in the finance ribbon Rule #3:
Always color code.
Color coding is found in the finance ribbon
Titlebar and Subtitlebar
Finance Blue (raw data & other inputs)
Finance Green (relayed data)
Black/ White / Red

4. Best Practice A professional model is submitted Rule #15:
Submit the file to open at 100% focused to A1 on the front page.
A professional model is submitted
open to the top tab
focus in cell A1 in each tab
View size at 100%

5. Data Collection

6. Data Collection Collect Data on Assigned company (BRK-B)
Diversifying company (LLY)
Market Proxy (S&P500)
3 month T-Bill
over assigned period (June 2007 – June 2010)

7. Data Collection
Prepare spreadsheet

8. Data Collection Equity Use Yahoo! Finance Historical Data
Specify monthly
Remember that 36 months of return requires 37 months of data
Download Data to excel

9. Download to spreadsheet
Data Collection 7
Download to spreadsheet
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10. Data Collection
Open the spreadsheet and copy the first six columns of data (not the headers) (Ctrl+c)
Note that Yahoo lists the first trading day of the month even though the data is monthly

11. This is input: format it in blue
Data Collection
Paste (Ctrl+v) into your prepared spreadsheet and format
This is input: format it in blue
footnote

12. Data Collection
BRK-b pays no dividends, but it did have a 50:1 split in January 2010
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13. Data Collection
LLY pays dividends
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14. Data Collection
S&P 500
footnote
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15. Data Collection
FRED
Download from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
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16. Data Collection
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17. Data Collection
Sort Z->A so that the dates match the most-recent-date-on-top format that you need
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18. Data Collection Interest rates 0.05 means 0.05% per year
footnote

19. Data Integration

20. Define 1 share as at end of period (June 2010)
Data Integration
Define 1 share as at end of period (June 2010)
=IF($J3>0,$I2*$J3,$I2)
The price of $64.28 is adjusted for splits. The share price of BRK-B on the last day of 2008 was actually $3,214.00
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21. Define 1 share as at end of period (June 2010)
Data Integration
Define 1 share as at end of period (June 2010)
=IF($T3>0,$S2*$T3,$S2)
The price of $40.27 represents the price of 1 share as currently defined
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22. dates align across rows
Format
Rule #6:
Format for ease of use.
titles and subtitles
dates align across rows
decimal places line up
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23. Data Collection