Intro

Time & Money: A prototype financial modeling platform with big advantages over spreadsheet-based modeling

Todd Olson

Welcome to the Time & Money financial modeling prototype!

This document presents an early prototype of Time & Money, a nascent financial modeling platform built on Coda. Time & Money generates cash flow or other time series data lines by rule rather than by filling cells down and across as in Excel. This approach provides a gigantic benefit over Excel modeling by allowing major changes in the model to be made by simple commands without risking the structural integrity of the model. Read “

The Big Promise⁠

“ for other advantages of the Time & Money approach over Excel.

How you can explore this prototype:

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`Dashboard`⁠
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Adjust global model parameters and view a summary of the cash flow model results.

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`Schedule`⁠
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View and adjust the project schedule and dynamically change the cash flow model.

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`Cash Flow Rules`⁠
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Adjust the rules that define each line of the cash flow model.

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`Cash Flows`⁠
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View the entire cash flow model.

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`Data`⁠
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See the raw date behind the model results.

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`Reference`⁠
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Read materials that help explain the ideas behind this prototype.

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Intro

Welcome to the Time & Money financial modeling prototype!

How you can explore this prototype:

⁠Dashboard⁠⁠

⁠Schedule⁠⁠

⁠Cash Flow Rules⁠⁠

⁠Cash Flows⁠⁠