Demo models

The models that ship inside Axmo, what each one shows, and which guide uses it.

A demo model is a complete Axmo model that comes with the add-in — dimensions, series, formulas and data, already built. Loading one is a way to read a working model before you build one, and to see what the pieces look like when they are all in place.

Nothing is downloaded and nothing is pasted.

Loading one

On the Axmo ribbon, in the Learn & Improve group, click Load Demo, choose a model from the cards, and load it. Press Update and the model computes.

P&L — Basic

A profit-and-loss model, and the quickest way to see what Axmo actually does. It has inputs you can type over, calculated series that recompute when you do, and formulas written against series names rather than cell addresses — which is the difference a spreadsheet modeller notices first.

Load this one if you want to understand the shape of a model before deciding whether to build one.

Take a working model apart walks through it: where a number comes from, where the formula lives, and what happens when you change an input.

Walkthrough demo

The finished model from Build your first model — a four-year staff budget for a company with two directorates and five departments, built from joiners, leavers, salaries and an annual pay policy.

It arrives complete: the input data, the report, and the filters the guide ends with. So it is worth loading twice — once before you start, to see where the guide is going, and once at the end, to check your own model against it.

It also carries the finding the guide is built around. The company's own summary says pay rises are tracking the approved policy. One level down, neither directorate is anywhere near it, and their errors cancel.

Which one first

If you have not used Axmo before, load P&L — Basic and take it apart. Ten minutes, nothing to prepare.

Then build one yourself, when you want to know how the pieces got there.