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Mastering Business & Financial Modeling using Excel

by Golden Masters for Training & Consultancy

Financial modelling is a key skill needed by everyone involved in corporate finance – equity analysis, company valuation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory, and so on. This definitive seminar shows you best practices and how to av

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Course Description:

Financial modelling is a key skill needed by everyone involved in corporate finance – equity analysis, company valuation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory, and so on. This definitive seminar shows you best practices and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Using our blended learning approach, delegates will construct a sophisticated company model, and use the model to analyse the future prospects for a major company..

Course Objective:

The seminar will:

- explain how to construct sound and reliable financial models

- demonstrate good modelling style

- develop and extend delegates’ skills in implementing and interpreting financial models

- highlight the limitations of financial models

After the seminar, delegates will understand how to build better financial models, and be more able to exploit financial models in making superior financial decisions and judgements.

Course Certificate:

Masters Consultant certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of  75% of the total tuition hours of the course.

Course Outline:

Developing a Financial Model

- Conceptualising the model

- Identifying key model variables

- Programming the model

- Applying accounting rules and business logic

- Links between balance sheet, cash flow, and P&L statements

- Ensuring sound design, reliable structure, and consistency of approach

- Examples of good and bad modelling style

- Allowing for flexible scenarios

- Running the model

- Producing reports

Key Design Issues

- Organising the workbook

- Formatting

- Enhancing visual appearance

- Using Range Names

- Charts

- Structured "what-if?" analysis

- Organising the toolbar for efficiency

- Printed reports

- Interpreting the results

Workshop: Designing a model

Important Excel functions for Modellers

- Financial functions

- Statistics functions

- Date functions and date arithmetic

- Lookup functions

- Logical, and Information functions

- Forecasting functions

- Text and formatting functions

- Tips and techniques with lookups

Advanced Excel Techniques

- Using Range Names and Range Labels

- Mastering Data Tables

- Custom formats

- Conditional formatting

- Protecting workbooks and worksheets

- Hiding cells and formulas

- Grouping rows and columns on a spreadsheet

- Arrays and array formulas

- Goal seeking and the Solver

- Scenarios for different assumptions

- Recording and running macros

- Creating simple "controls"

Workshop: Automating scenario analysis

Company Valuation

- Modelling the cash flows

- Estimating terminal value

- Exit multiples

- Growth models

- WACC

Modelling a Company

- Analysing the company data

- Designing the model

- Building and verifying the company model

- Creating the initial position

- Modelling the operating environment

 Applying accounting rules and business logic
 
- Creating P&L, cashflow, and balance sheet statements

- Verifying the model

- Running the model

- Generating and interpreting the results

Workshop: Creating a company model

Case Study : Analysing a company with DCF analysis

Auditing and Problem Solving

- Checking the integrity of a financial spreadsheet

- Getting a financial spreadsheet to "balance"

- Moving from the past, through the present, and into the future: from facts to forecasts

- Dealing with part-year accounts and differing year-ends

- Auditing a spreadsheet

- Resolving circular references

- Documenting spreadsheets

Using a Financial Model

- Collecting data

- Making assumptions

- Economic environment impact

- Prospects for the company's business sector

- Competition – how the target company fares against its competitors

- Decision strategies – evaluating alternative strategies that the company may implement

- What do the numbers mean?

Masters Training Company was established in response to the growing need for quality training to support the business community within your Company, Department or Organization by providing a high standard of Training Programs, Courses, Seminars, Workshops and Consultancy Services to employees in a very competitive business environment. 

 
Following the latest trends and ideas in Technology and Management techniques, and with its in-depth knowledge of the business environment, Masters Training Company is able to meet the special requirements of both local and international business throughout the Middle East. Masters Training & Consulting is an independent multinational firm with more than 25 years of experience in helping regional organizations develop their human capital in all fields of management. 
 
Since 1990, we have been entrusted by our clients to provide the most reliable training and consulting products and services in the region. Our innovative and diversified range of training programs and consulting services are designed and delivered by an ever-growing team of full time multilingual consultants experienced in providing solutions relevant to this part of the world and applicable to today’s business challenges.
 
We pride ourselves on our track record in this regard and on our long-standing relationships with our clients, many of whom have been with us since we started business. 
 
 
Our public training programs have attracted more than 300,000 participants from almost 3,000 organizations many of whom also entrust us with their needs for bespoke in-company programs. Our client base is steadily growing and so is our commitment to remain the regional leaders in the fields of training and consulting.

Masters is also an approved vendor from KHDA & ILM

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