I’m a mid level financial analyst and had a deadline to build a DCF model last Friday.For anyone who doesn’t know, DCF is discounted cash flow. It tells you what a company is worth today based on future cash it’s expected to generate. Sounds simple but a solid one takes a full day to two days to build and one wrong formula breaks the entire thing. I was sick all week and my boss would not get off my back. Saw a post on a Claude/Anthropic sub about Claude’s financial plugins. Didn’t fully understand it, googled it, watched a couple of YouTube tutorials. Turns out running it on Claude Cowork needed an enterprise plan and I only had Pro. I panicked again and then found out Claude Code was an alternative. Never used a terminal in my life. Downloaded it on my Mac anyway, copy pasted commands, installed some investment banking or financial analysis plugin. I dropped my company’s financials directly as files into Claude Code (didn’t know if that was even okay but the deadline was short). Then I typed /dcf [company name] and holy sh… it generated a fully structured excel DCF model in 20-25 minutes. Properly formatted and formulas actually working. What would’ve taken two days took a couple of hours, and most of that was me reviewing assumptions, which is the part that needs a human anyway. You still have to verify numbers and make sure the model logic makes sense as claude doesn’t replace financial judgment. But the part that was going to kill my deadline was gone. I don’t code and I barely knew what a terminal was a week ago. Walked out with a model I’d have been embarrassed not to have. Not enough people in finance know this exists. A couple of good tutorials that helped: link 1 , link 2 submitted by /u/Cool-Ad4442
Originally posted by u/Cool-Ad4442 on r/ClaudeCode
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