Financial Modeling Masterclass

Description

The Financial Modeling Masterclass is a highly practical course run virtually over four half-days that will enable you to master the creation, adaptation, and use of corporate financial models.

What really sets our program apart is the way in which we take you, step-by-step, through how a financial model works, and how the different financial statements fit together. We explain how the whole modeling process works, demystify the complexities, and really bring the topics to life.

Learning Outcomes

By attending this course, you will:

• Understand how to construct sound and reliable financial models
• Learn good modeling style
• Develop your skills in implementing and interpreting financial models
• Explore different modeling techniques
• Appreciate the limitations of financial models
• Obtain practical experience of building different types of financial models

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in the creation and use of company financial models.

Prerequisites

A good working knowledge of Excel.

Seminar Content

Introduction

• Objectives of financial modeling
• Scope of financial models

Developing a Financial Model

• Conceptualizing the model
• Identifying key model variables
• Programming the model
• Organizing the workbook: Data, Assumptions, Results
• Allowing for flexible scenarios
• Producing reports

computer Case Study: Modeling a Company

• Analyzing the company data
• Designing the model
• Building and verifying the company model
• Creating the initial position
• Modeling the operating environment
• Applying accounting rules and business logic
• Creating P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet statements
• Verifying the model
• Running the model
• Generating and interpreting the results

Auditing and Problem Solving

• Checking the integrity of a financial spreadsheet
• computer 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
• computer Resolving circular references
• Documenting spreadsheets

Risk Analysis

• Risk and uncertainty
• Scenario analysis
• computer Using Excel Scenarios for different assumptions
• Sensitivity analysis
• computer Using Excel Data Tables to perform structured sensitivity analyses
• computer Monte Carlo simulation

Company Valuation

• Modeling the cash flows
• Estimating terminal value
• Exit multiples, growth models, and WACC
• computer Applying valuation techniques to company model

Modeling a Merger

• Target and bidder financials (historical and projections)
• Modeling implications of primary financing structures
• Incorporating synergies and sensitivities
• Analysis of key output ratios
• computer Modeling a Buy-out
• Modeling the financing structure
• IRR, equity ratchets and covenants
• computer Incorporating sensitivities

When and Where
   9 Apr 2024 - 12 Apr 2024
   a.m. sessions – 08:00 to 12:00 (for Asia / EMEA participants)
   p.m. sessions – 13:00 to 17:00 (for EMEA / Americas participants)
   All times are GMT (London time)
   Virtual
   Data Science

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