Financial Modelling from Scratch

Participants start with a blank excel sheet and an annual report. The financial statements of the case company are analysed, and the latest historical data is inputted and cleaned. Ratios are calculated and assumptions for each line item in the financial statements are created.

The full forecast model is then built. The forecasting techniques for several different items are examined separately, using excel files.

Suitability

This course is suitable for anyone with basic accounting skills, financial maths skills and excel skills.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

Identify relevant information in the company’s financial statements, management discussion and analysis, and notes
Analyse and making reasonable projections for a company’s operating costs, non- recurring items, and other income and expense
Create assumptions and forecasting balance sheet accounts
- Revenues and costs
- Fixed assets – capital expenditure and depreciation
- Intangible assets
- Operating working capital
- Provisions
- Effective tax rate, taxes payable and the various deferred tax items
- Debt schedule

Course Content

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

Identify relevant information in the company’s financial statements, management discussion and analysis, and notes
Analyse and making reasonable projections for a company’s operating costs, non- recurring items, and other income and expense
Create assumptions and forecasting balance sheet accounts
- Revenues and costs
- Fixed assets – capital expenditure and depreciation
- Intangible assets
- Operating working capital
- Provisions
- Effective tax rate, taxes payable and the various deferred tax items
- Debt schedule

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Why study with Alpha?

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We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

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We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

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