LBO model taking too long to converge

I built an lbo model that's balanced and working okay, but it's taking a long time to run through iterations to balance everything. I turned off automatic calculations for data tables and it still takes ~4,000 iterations to get through all the circular references. Any advice to get this to run faster without macros?

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I'm not sure how to avoid circularity when adding certain pieces into the model (PIK added in a few more) and there are a lot of debt instruments in the model. Any tips?

 
Khayembii

Usually it's because of how the model is constructed and not due to an inherent conceptual circular/iterative reference.

this. There's clearly something that should be buitl better. Might be the way your PIK flows or something.
 

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