What tips / helpful tactics did you all use to develop excel modeling skills. Outside of really understanding the typical excel formulas, what other things helped with learning how to build models overall?

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Editing live while screensharing will teach you a thing or two

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I give the model to my associate. The model comes out well overall.

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Modeling is just organizing data into meaningful insights.

Figure out the end goal and keep breaking the data and use arithmetic to find that metric you’re looking for

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Excel...modeling? Why??

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