Power BI – Microsoft’s self-service business intelligence and data visualisation tool – is becoming both more versatile and more popular each month. Today’s analysts need to use the best, most powerful and flexible analytical software for their work. More and more of us are realising Power BI fits the bill. We’d be foolish to stand still. This brief overview addresses the way forward for financial modelling. Many working in banking and finance are creating their financial models in Excel and then importing them into Power BI for graphical interpretation and further analysis. I am not going to do that. I’m going to consider building models in Power BI.