Overview

Recommended Prep Courses

These preparatory courses are optional, but we recommend you to complete the stated prep course(s) or possess the equivalent knowledge prior to enrolling in this course:

e-Commerce / Startup Financial Model Course Overview

Master the art of building a financial model and valuing an e-Commerce Startup. In this course, you will learn to build a startup financial model from scratch complete with assumptions, financials, valuation, and output charts. We will look at how much money this business has to raise based on its business plan and model out each year of cash flow.

Startup financial model template in course

Startup financial model course objectives

By the end of this startup financial model course you’ll be able to:

Understand key startup / e-commerce terms and definitions that are used in the industry
Understand the e-commerce industry, business models, players, etc
Input key assumptions into a startup financial model in the assumptions section
Calculate an order buildup and customer base schedule which will be used to forecast revenue
Build the three financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement) based on the business plan
Perform a discounted cash flow DCF valuation of the startup / eCommerce business
Output relevant graphs to illustrate the cash flow, key metrics, and overall investment opportunity

The e-commerce financial model templates included in this course if yours for download and can be used for your own business.

e-commerce financial model course

Who should take this course?

This e-commerce / startup financial model course is designed anyone working in the Technology Media and Telecommunication (TMT) group in investment banking, Venture Capital, or planning to start their own business. Participants will learn to build a model from scratch, using industry-leading best practices and using one key set of assumptions to drive all valuation outputs.

By the end of the program, you will be able to take the skills you’ve learned and modify the Excel template to fit your own business. Every business is unique, which is why it’s important to acquire the skills necessary to desing yoru own model for your own business.

startup course on financial modeling in Excel

Prep Courses

The course and an advanced class and assumes you have already taken:

Excel Crash Course
Building a Financial Model in Excel
Business Valuation

For further CPE information, please read before purchasing:

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/about/cpe-information/

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Prerequisite Courses

Recommended courses to complete before taking this course.

Prerequisite Skills

Recommended skills to have before taking this course.

Excel
Valuation
Financial modelling

Startup / e-Commerce Financial Model & Valuation

4.9

Led by Tim Vipond

Level 4

2h 9min

100% online and self-paced

Field of Study: Finance

NASBA CPE Credits: 4

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What you'll learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

Files

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification

Skills Learned Financial modeling and valuation, sensitivity analysis, strategy
Career Prep Investment banking and equity research, FP&A, corporate development

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What Our Members Say

Good!

Awesome financial model and template to use for my business. Thanks, CFI.

Rustom Rupand

This course takes you all the way through how to build a financial model from the bottom-up. I highly recommend it for anyone with a startup or who wants to learn financial modeling!

Cara Nowen

Excellent Course!!!!

This model is very comprehensive. The model just flows. Very impressive.

Dominic Bregenz

So comprehensive! Good understanding of e-business financial operations. Thanks, CFI.

Teka Derick Tikum

Excellent Course!

This course has taught me a lot. I am now more competent in building these financial models.

Constantine Burrell

Extremely helpful, simplistic and accurate.

Helped me in modeling my e-Commerce business within a few hours. Extremely accurate and simplified!

Eric Bohring

Following CFI's lead through this course was a success for me.

KANNY SIBOZA

Tax shield applied if there is interest expense

My input to eCommerceModel Questions needs correction in answering line 282: Line 282 use taxes, formula applied as "=IF(E276>0,0,(E281-E275)*E104)" pick up EBIT row It should be: "=IF(E276>0,0,(E279-E275)*E104)" pick up EBT row Thus, answer for #16 would be $24,125,581 instead of $24,099,292 Tax shield (tax reduce) effect = 25% X$100k, .... and 25% X $50k (Year 2021) John W. Alwi

John Wisnu Alwi

Amazing Course

I really enjoyed every video and quiz of the course, I have gained a lot of knowledge and confidence to build a robust financial model for E-commerce and startup business. Thank you.

Saadeldin Ahmed Khaled Mohamed Hussein

Some remarks

Dear CFI, I noticed some mistakes/inconsistency during the course videos. FYI: Capital assets -depretiation and closing Balance: P&E depretiation calculation (video 7:08) the formula refers to F$94 instead of F$95. => the formula is correct in the downloadable completed excel. We start the excel number cranching with Equity Raised figure 5 M$, however at the end of the course (Valuation) it increases to 8 mM$ (or maybe I missed something?) There are some spelling mistakes also. Anyway I enjoyed it

Kalman Kelemen

E-Commerce Financial

It was amazing to dig deeply in how to financially build financial model for such type of common business nowadays.

Muhamed Yusif El Kady

Extremely Great course

The course was one of the best I have seen in terms of explanation and delivering the content. The best part of the course is explaining by doing things on the video and asking the receiver of the content to do as well so that he/she finds it engaging.

Rochak Agarwal

Amazing course

This is a course that teaches you how to do the job. It is the most practical finance course I have seen. Thank you CFI.

Ryan Hastie

E-commerce model

straightforward and easy to learn. Help me build up my confidence.

Albert Tan Tiong Heng

BEST FMVA Course

I found it very useful & best to be a Professional Financial Analyst

Muhammad Shehzad Qamar

Financial Risk Analyst

Excellent!

Vinodh Kumar Soundararajan

Must study model

This model is very interesting especially for countries that are very young in professional e-commerce businesses like mine.

Innocent Rukundo Musabyimana

Good course for beginners!

Hope to see more sophisticated models on tech valuation and potentially a course dedicated to KPIs assessment (monthly, quarterly, etc.)

Orkhan Gambarli

very useful and important course

this was very intensive and comprehensive course.

Mohamed Radi Mansour

Course content and Examination

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