Course Ref: FIN.10

Course Subject: Finance

Who should attend?

• Financial practitioners who are looking to develop their financial modelling skills
• Senior Managers seeking to explore the benefits of financial modelling for their organisation

Course objectives

• To understand the basic concepts of financial modelling and techniques
• To examine the importance, implications and uses of financial modelling in business
• To appreciate the modelling options, sensitivity analysis results
• To provide hands-on model construction skills and to design an appropriate management information system (MIS)

Course content

• Concepts, methodology, requirements, assumptions and uses of financial modelling
• Modelling structures – practical use of modelling templates
• Linkage of sub models to main models
• Integration of ratio analysis and budgets in main models
• Capital structure, debt structure and investment appraisal models
• Capital asset, depreciation, capital expenditure models
• Project finance, deals and structures
• Risk management within financial modelling
• Cash flow forecast and analysis models and their uses in treasury management