Financial Modeling and its Business Applications

Financial Modeling and its Business Applications

This course adopted a practical and hand-holding approach to understanding and applying financial modeling concepts to business. The concepts covered in this course will serve as a base for building any financial model.

This course has been developed using tested materials, and practical techniques used in real-world business applications. It will teach you a step-by-step guide to building a financial model for a business that has no historical data, or financial.

What you will learn:

• Understanding how the business operates, and how it flows into financial modeling concepts.

• Understanding business & accounting cycle in business and financial modeling.

• Getting information/data needed to build a financial model with the use of an Information Request List document (using a client-based practical case study).

• Building a professional model template.

• Extracting and structuring of inputs using FAST Standard.

• Building the calculations and schedules.

• Creating the projected financial statement (profit or loss, balance sheet, cash flow statement).

The prerequisite skills needed for this course are:

• Accounting: ability to build and interpret 3-financial statements and understand how the financial statements are linked.

• Finance: understanding the fundamentals of finance, understanding investment evaluation, and application of macroeconomic factors in forecasting.

• Microsoft Excel: application of formulas and functions in Microsoft Excel.

• Analytical skills: ability to analyze and interpret data.

Fundamentals and concepts of building a financial model from scratch using a real-world client’s work-brief

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What you will learn

• Understanding how the business operates and how it flows into financial modeling concepts
• Understanding business & accounting cycle in business and financial modeling.
• Getting Information/data needed to build a financial model with the use of an Information Request List document (using a client-based practical case study).

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Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 5.5 hours

Instructor: Victor ogundele