The Cost of Equity and WACC Calculator for Excel is a simple spreadsheet that accepts several pieces of information about the business you are analyzing and calculates its cost of equity and weighted-average cost of capital (WACC). Why scour through costly textbooks for difficult-to-understand formulas when you can just plug in a few pieces of information about the business and calculate the cost of equity and WACC in seconds?

The Cost of Equity and WACC Calculator for Excel includes step-by-step instructions for entering the necessary data from the company you are analyzing and includes links to data sources for market information.

The spreadsheet is also flexible, allowing the practitioner to vary the outcome of the calculation by changing his view on the expected return of the overall stock market.

The Cost of Equity and WACC Calculator for Excel is a simple spreadsheet designed to quickly calculate a company's cost of equity and weighted-average cost of capital from publicly-available information.

This spreadsheet was developed by a CFA charterholder.

• Save time by using a pre-designed template as a basis for your calculation.

• Reduce formula errors caused when practitioners try to manually calculate cost of equity and WACC. The calculations are already done for you. Simply enter the information highlighted by the model, tweak it to match your expectations on the direction of the overall market, and view the completed calculation.

• Save money by spending your time on running your business or performing valuations rather than scouring through costly textbooks for complicated formulas.

• The spreadsheet is fully-editable. Source code and calculations are not blocked or hidden behind passwords, as you may find in other companies' templates. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Excel can expand the capabilities of the spreadsheet to fit their needs.

• The spreadsheet is easy-to-use and flexible. Cells requiring input are clearly highlighted within the model and are easily populated with publicly-available information specific to the company you are analyzing.

• This spreadsheet was developed by a financial professional (CFA charterholder).

Our software runs on any version of Microsoft Excel from 97-2007.

All recent Microsoft operating systems are supported, including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows CE, Windows XP and Vista. Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 are also supported, provided you have Microsoft Excel or Documents-To-Go installed on your mobile device.

It is also fully-compatible with MAC OS and OS X. You must be running Excel 2004 or 2008 for Mac.