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Welcome to Macabacus On-Demand Training, powered by Corporate Finance Institute. Learn how to speed up financial modeling tasks through interactive video tutorials.

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Macabacus On-Demand Training

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  1. Click the Get Started For Free button below
  2. Create a free account with Corporate Finance Institute, our parent company. (Note that this account will be separate from your Macabacus account.)
  3. You’ll be automatically redirected to the Macabacus courses after sign-up. If you aren’t redirected, click here, or search for “Macabacus” in CFI’s platform

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Course 1: Macabacus Quick Start Guide


The essential guide to setting up Macabacus.

  • Configure financial models to your brand standards
  • Customize shortcuts & cycles
  • Download our Quick Start Guide

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Course 2: Format a Financial Model with Macabacus

Transform your workbook into a polished financial model.

  • Understand key design principles used in financial modeling formatting
  • Learn shortcuts for formatting
  • Download our Format a Financial Model summary

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Course 3: Audit a Financial Model with Macabacus

Audit your models instantly for precise financial insights.

  • Utilize powerful visualization tools to highlight formula and other model errors
  • Learn shortcuts for auditing
  • Download our Audit a Financial Model summary

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Course 4: Modular Model Building with Macabacus

Break your models down into a series of financial model schedules.

  • Learn how to think in a modular fashion
  • Use shortcuts for modular model building
  • View real-world examples of the modular approach used by CFI

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Course 5: Build a Presentation with Macabacus

Quickly create standardized presentations in PowerPoint that are dynamically linked to Excel files.

  • Utilize PowerPoint templates to create an automated table of contents, flysheets, section titles, and stamps.
  • Discuss the various ways in which content in Excel can be linked into PowerPoint presentations reliably.
  • Use the proofing pane and the reformat tool to categorize, locate, and fix potential issues in the presentation quickly.

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