Generative AI is transforming the way financial analysts work—speeding up model creation, improving accuracy, streamlining analysis, and providing deep insights through intelligent automation. This course combines the strength of Excel with the power of Generative AI to deliver faster, more efficient, and more intuitive financial modeling workflows. You will learn all core financial modeling techniques while also discovering how to integrate Gen AI tools to generate formulas, validate models, summarize insights, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance decision-making. Whether you're analyzing financial statements, forecasting performance, or building dynamic business models, Generative AI can dramatically improve your productivity and the quality of your analysis.

Section 1: Foundations of Financial Analysis in Excel

This section establishes the fundamentals of financial analysis and Excel-based modeling while introducing how Generative AI tools can support each step. You’ll understand what financial analysis is, why Excel remains essential, and how AI can automate interface navigation, formula creation, and best-practice model structures. By the end, you’ll see how traditional modeling foundations blend seamlessly with AI-augmented workflows.

Section 2: Essential Excel Functions

This section builds your analytical toolkit through essential Excel functions used in financial modeling, enriched with practical AI integration. While learning logical, lookup, error-handling, and statistical functions, you will also see how Generative AI can write formulas, fix errors, optimize logic conditions, and suggest more efficient alternatives. AI-enhanced learning ensures you not only know the functions but also apply them faster and more accurately.

Section 3: Advanced Excel Functions for Financial Modeling

Here, you dive deeper into sophisticated financial functions required for NPV, IRR, depreciation, annuities, and more—while learning how AI can drastically reduce complexity. Generative AI can explain financial math, generate correct TVM formulas, validate calculations, and detect inconsistencies across your models. This section bridges the gap between advanced financial math and AI-driven problem solving.

Section 4: Data Analysis Tools in Excel

This section focuses on Excel’s analytical capabilities, extended with AI-driven assistance. You will master data validation, conditional formatting, PivotTables, Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, Data Tables, and more. Generative AI will show you how to automatically clean data, generate PivotTables via natural language, visualize datasets quickly, and automate scenario generation—turning hours of work into minutes.

Section 5: Building Financial Models

In this core module, you’ll construct an end-to-end financial model—income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement—while integrating Generative AI as your co-analyst. AI will help you create assumptions, design model structure, detect linkage errors, rewrite formulas, forecast revenues and costs, and craft financial stories. This section demonstrates how AI can elevate your modeling, from technical building to strategic insight.

Section 6: Advanced Topics & Best Practices

The final section expands your capabilities through sensitivity analysis, scenario planning, advanced visualizations, and auditing—augmented with Generative AI support. AI will help generate scenarios, interpret outcomes, build clean visual dashboards, detect model errors, and explain financial impacts. By the end, you’ll combine human financial expertise with AI’s analytical speed to build powerful, reliable models.

Conclusion:

By the end of this course, you will be equipped to build robust Excel-based financial models with the speed, clarity, and intelligence of Generative AI. You’ll understand both traditional modeling and AI-powered techniques—making you significantly more productive and competitive in the finance world. This course prepares you to thrive in modern FP&A, investment analysis, business planning, and corporate finance roles.