Financial modeling · PE · M&A · valuation
Practice with realistic finance case studies, build the private equity, M&A financial models yourself, and crush that interview.
Salah
FRENCH PROJECT FINANCE PROFESSIONAL · FOUNDER OF IFE
THE WHOLE IDEA, IN 2 MINUTES
Inputs to income statement, balance sheet and cash flow. Then the valuation, then the charts an investment committee actually reads.
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The moment you join you get a clean dashboard with every case study, Excel model, video and walkthrough.
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The gap nobody talks about
This is where careers in private equity, M&A and corporate finance stall — not on theory, on the model itself.
Given assumptions on revenue, costs, capex, working capital and debt, could you produce a linked income statement, balance sheet and cash flow that actually balances? If not, that is the wall between you and the job.
Sources and uses, purchase price allocation, debt tranches, cash sweep, exit at a multiple, IRR and MOIC. Everyone talks about LBOs. Very few can actually build one in Excel under time pressure.
Valuing a company before an IPO, before an M&A deal, before a fundraise: DCF, WACC, comparables, precedent transactions, football field. Without reps, the number you produce is one you can't defend.
A model no one can read is a model no one funds. Converting your numbers into clean, professional charts and dashboards is what gets an investment committee or a lending bank to say yes.
You can talk through a DCF and still freeze when someone says 'build it, now'. That moment has no second chance — and it repeats at every stage of your career.
Free videos feel productive and leave nothing behind. Skill comes from finishing models yourself, month after month, until the structure is automatic.
Every month you don't build one, the gap gets wider — and the next financial modeling test, the next deal, the next promotion finds it.
The moment you join
Inputs, three statements, valuation, charts. Everything you need to build it yourself, today.
From raw inputs to a finished three-statement model, valuation and investor charts — ready to open the moment you sign up.
Each model is broken down click by click: assumptions, income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, debt schedule, valuation output.
The working Excel files at each stage, yours to keep — so you can rebuild the whole model from a blank sheet as many times as you want.
The exact prompts we use to speed up the repetitive parts of the build — formatting, checks, schedules — so your time goes into the financial modeling judgment.
WHY I BUILT THIS OFFER ?
Salah
Like hundreds of students every year, I was applying for private-equity analyst roles. I knew finance — DCF, comparables, valuation. I felt ready. Then a recruiter said: “Build me a three-statement model. Right now.”
I froze. I had a master's in finance — and no one had ever taught me to build a real Excel model from A to Z. I didn't get the role. And I understood that my degree wasn't enough.
The turning point
Books on financial modeling. Workshops. Thousands of euros invested in the one skill no one had bothered to teach me. I learned that building a model turns finance knowledge into a concrete decision tool.
First deals · Private US companies
My first real-world models: investment memos on private US companies. For the first time, my work was driving actual allocation decisions — read, and challenged, by professionals.
2022 · Private equity and crowdfunding
On a private-equity crowdfunding platform, I built the models used to support investor decisions in equity and bonds. Every model had to be robust. Every assumption had to defend itself.
Since 2024
Business plans submitted to institutional lenders and investors — the highest bar I've ever worked to. I built IFE so you can learn these practical skills through structured, real-world case studies.
Why I built Listed Models
Nobody became good at financial modeling by reading about it. You get good the way analysts get good: one model, then another, then another.
A one-off course gives you a weekend of motivation. A model every month gives you a rhythm — and rhythm is what turns knowledge into reflex.
You don't learn to build a three-statement model by watching one. You learn it by opening a blank sheet and finishing it yourself, again and again.
Every new case study adds a sector, a structure, a valuation angle. Twelve months in, you don't have notes — you have a portfolio of models you built.
Anything worth having in life is built by practice — day by day, week by week, month by month. That is exactly why Listed Models is a monthly membership and not a course you finish once and forget. A new financial modeling case study, every month, for as long as you want to keep getting better.
THE TRANSFORMATION YOU WILL SEE
Three statements, transaction structures, valuation and investor charts: the financial modeling skills PE, M&A and corporate finance teams actually hire for.
Level 10 — build a complete model live.
The skills you walk away with
Not a list of topics you've heard of — a list of things you can build, from a blank Excel sheet, under time pressure.
Linked income statement, balance sheet and cash flow that actually balance — from raw operating assumptions.
Sources and uses, purchase price allocation, debt tranches, cash sweep, exit multiple, IRR and MOIC.
DCF, WACC, trading comparables, precedent transactions and a football field you can defend line by line.
Turning your outputs into one-page visuals that an investment committee or a lending bank actually reads.
The prompts that remove formatting, checks and repetitive schedules — so your time goes into judgment, not typing.
Clean assumptions blocks, audit checks, scenario toggles and documentation — the habits that make a model trusted.
Let's be honest first
Before you start your 7-day free trial, read this. If any of these is you, save your $97 — we'd rather lose the sale than waste your time.
Our edge is AI that accelerates the grunt work — not a button that replaces the thinking. If you want to skip the understanding, this won't build your skills.
Every case study is build-along. If the file stays closed, nothing changes. This is reps, not entertainment.
We build private equity transaction models, three-statement models and valuations. If formulas and references are still new, learn those first — then come back and you'll fly.
If you're a VP staffing analysts on live deals, this is below your level. It's built for the people developing that practical fluency.
If one night out beats building the financial modeling skill that gets you hired, this probably isn't the right priority for you. No hard feelings.
Everyone else — the people who'll actually open the file and do the work — this was built for you.
How it works
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For each Case Study you get: the full Excel model, a written walkthrough (PDF), a video breakdown and a sector guide. Download everything immediately.
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After 6 months you'll have 12–18 real-world models in your portfolio — across solar, SaaS, real estate, LBO, M&A, banking, retail, industrials.
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