1. Applied Private Equity and Venture Capital
Course 4
Nicolas Renaud

2. Modeling 10 Commandments
General guideline for making an excel spreadsheet:
Do not USE or ALTER primary information, open a new spread sheet and create links to the source document, (to do this put an = sign in a cell and then go to the page where your information is and click on the cell (s).
Do NOT manual input or copy paste information if you can link it.
Inputs are in Blue
Make sure to provide notes regarding where you are getting your information (source) as well as make sure to highlight or mention any time you break away from a pattern or have a problem.
NO merged cells, NO hidden spreadsheet, No hidden row, no hidden ANYTHING, try to avoid grouped row columns/rows
Make sure to work either Horizontally or Vertically not both (this way you don’t have issues with deleting rows & columns). And try as much as possible to keep only 1 column per year
Make sure your cell sizes / cell margins are consistent when making a table (IE: you can have cells of different sizes like the title cell but don’t have cells be different if the information in them is more or less the same).
Don’t make your graph too crowded / Be consistent in your work / formatting
Break down Calculations into small easy to understand items
Use the same number of decimals for numbers everywhere, do not have millions mixed with thousands

3. Shortcurts Ctrl + z: undo Ctrl + space: select column
Shift + space: select row
Ctrl + “+”: add
Ctrl + “-”: delete
Ctrl + d: duplicate formula
Ctrl + arrow: move to end of bloc
Ctrl + shift + arrow: select block
F12: save as
Alt+ o + d: conditional formatting
Alt + d + t: data table
Alt + e + s + v: paste (special) in value
Ctrl + 1: number format
Ctrl + page up: move to next tab
Ctrl + page down : move to previous tab

4. Excel Functions SUMIF COUNT OFFSET LARGE SUMPRODUCT DATE TODAY WORKDAY
VLOOKUP
HLOOKUP
MATCH
FIND
CONCATENATE
ROUND