FIN/360 Financial Data Modeling sample papers, week by week

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FIN/360 teaches how to build forecasting models in a spreadsheet. Five weekly samples move from model structure and historical analysis through linked statement forecasts and supporting schedules to scenario testing and using the model for a business decision.

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. FIN/360 is Phoenix’s Financial Data Modeling course. It provides an overview of financial data modeling, combining finance, accounting and other business data to forecast future performance from historical trends, including building statements and schedules and evaluating models for decisions. Searches like "fin/360 week 3 assignment example", "FIN360 sample paper", and "FIN 360 week samples" land on this page.

What FIN/360 is really about

A financial model links assumptions, such as sales growth, margins and capital spending, to forecast statements that balance and flow into each other. FIN/360 teaches clean model design with separate inputs, calculations and outputs, and shows how debt, depreciation and working capital schedules tie profit, financial position and cash together.

Students commonly analyze three to five years of a company's history, choose drivers, forecast the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows together, build supporting schedules, check that the balance sheet balances and run base, upside and downside scenarios to support a decision such as expansion or financing.

What FIN/360’s assessments ask for

Instructors look for transparent assumptions with sources, formulas rather than hard-coded numbers, statements that link and balance and scenario results explained in plain terms.

Where students lose points in FIN/360

Students lose points when models do not balance, when assumptions are buried in formulas or when forecasts extend historical trends without reasoning. Circular references left unexplained are another common problem.

The FIN/360 drawers

Wk 1

FIN/360 Wk 1 assignment example

Wk 1 usually introduces financial modeling and model structure. Full sample paper, annotated: Financial Modeling and Model Structure.

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Wk 2

FIN/360 Wk 2 assignment example

Wk 2 typically analyzes historical statements and sets drivers. Full sample paper, annotated: Historical Analysis and Forecast Drivers.

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Wk 3

FIN/360 Wk 3 assignment example

Wk 3 often forecasts the income statement and balance sheet. Full sample paper, annotated: Forecasting the Income Statement and Balance Sheet.

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Wk 4

FIN/360 Wk 4 assignment example

Wk 4 commonly builds cash flow and supporting schedules. Full sample paper, annotated: Cash Flow and Supporting Schedules.

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Wk 5

FIN/360 Wk 5 assignment example

Wk 5 closes with scenarios and a decision recommendation. Full sample paper, annotated: Scenarios and a Decision Recommendation.

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Using a FIN/360 sample the right way

Share the company and template your course provides; the free sample documents each assumption and shows the statements tying together.

How these samples are written

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FIN/360 questions, answered

What is a three-statement model?

A model whose projected income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows are wired together, so a change in one updates the others.

What is a model driver?

An assumption, such as revenue growth or days sales outstanding, used to forecast a line item.

Why run scenarios?

To see how results change under different assumptions and to judge the risk of a decision.