Most people learn to write decent essays, articles, papers or proposals over the course of their school or university education.
However, our experience of reviewing financial models shows that the simple presentational (short, simple sentence and clear paragraphs) and structural lessons (introduction, main body, conclusion and executive summary) that people apply when a creating a text based argument are rarely applied when formulating a number based argument such as a financial model.
This strikes us as very bizarre; after all the only difference is that one is an argument with words and the other an argument with numbers. At IndexMatch we show how the same rules that apply to essay writing can be used in an excel model to add clarity and make the argument easier to write, simpler to understand and easier to improve.
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