The top question I get today:
"Chris, is this still worth learning with all the AI that's out there?"
Totally reasonable question.
In fact, I'm all for AI, but the hype makes us lose sight of what AI is: a prediction engine that often hallucinates.
In the modeling world, the best AI can give you a "70% template," but it's terrible with nuance -- ask it to build your monthly reporting pack that has three EBITDA calculations and 47 adjustments, and it falls alarmingly short.
Flaws aside, the real value of a model isn't the spreadsheet: it's the understanding you gain by building it, and the recommendations you can make from it.
(Recommendations that you're accountable for, by the way).
If you skip the build, you are simply trading time spent learning the business for time spent auditing an algorithm.
"Speed of spreadsheet" is great, but business intelligence is the ultimate goal, which is built on a mastery of finance and accounting.
Once you have that foundation, then you can use AI to go faster, but not do the thinking for you.
The only way to gain that understanding is to build it yourself -- brick by brick.
That's exactly what The Ultimate Financial Modeling Mastery Program delivers.
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