Financial Modeling in Excel
The objective of this program is to provide Financial Modeling in Excel knowledge and practical experience about the creation of comprehensive and flexible financial models used in financial planning and fundraising purposes.
The participants will gain insights into the step-by-step process of creating financial models using Microsoft Excel, putting checks and audits and finally analyzing the same.
Overview
This course will equip all participants with various tools to aid in complex business decision making by incorporating multiple factors operating in the dynamic business environment. At the end of the course, each participant will be able to create a financial model independently and carry out analysis to take the best decision for their company.
Who should attend
All individuals who want to improve their financial modeling skills should attend this course
- Middle to senior managers from different industries
- All professionals who want to deal or currently deal with financial modeling in their company
- Consultants, advisors and other professionals who wish to improve their modeling skills
Methodology & Trainer
The non-theoretical methodology which includes interactive discussions, case studies, and assignments to understand the concepts and their applicability. As a policy, we limit the class size to 15 participants so that we can provide attention to each participant and ensure their objective is achieved.
We request you to please bring your laptop with Microsoft Excel installed to the class.
All our trainers are carefully chosen by us and possess a rich and vast experience in the financial sector. This course conducted by an experienced training consultant having more than 16 years of industry experience with some of the world’s leading business institutions, specializing in corporate finance, investment banking, and private equity.
- Overview of best industry practices for financial modeling
- Importance of historical information
- Analysis of company and industry information
- Steps for creating financial models
- Proper presentation of various sheets and setting up the model input dashboard
- Analysis of industry assumptions and their rationale for revenues & costs, assets and liabilities’ assumptions – operating cost, capex, leverage, modeling of historical ratios and trends
- Shortlisting assumptions and applying adjustments
- Applying various forecasting tools, etc
- Working capital schedule
- Fixed assets and depreciation
- Schedule of amortization of intangible assets
- Preparation of debt and interest
- Taxation
- Equity fundraising
- Equity gap and funding
- Components of cash and non-cash working capital
- Working capital ratios and their interpretation
- Forecasting working capital requirements
- Equity and debt fund raising and repayment structure
- Debt waterfall mechanism
- Checking debt repayment ratios, leverage, and covenants
- Industry practices on handling exceptions integration of Cash Flows, Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- How to handle Circular References in financial modeling
- Use of data for sensitivity analysis
- Importance of scenario manager
- Identifying suitable scenarios and sensitivities and their impact on financial analysis
- Managing critical pitfalls in the analysis
- Data sorting and Data filtering
- Creating, customizing Pivots Tables, advanced pivot tables, and analysis
- V-LOOK UP and H-LOOK UP, Macros, and other analysis
- Importance of PV, NPV, and IRR and their link with company valuation
- How to analysis various capital budgeting decisions
- Calculation of multiple ratios
- Calculate the weighted average cost of capital using capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
- Calculation of WACC
- Investment and exit analysis – equity IRR, project IRR etc
- Various methods of valuation – DCF, Multiples, comparables, etc
- Discounted Cash Flow valuation and different multiples-based methodologies
- Importance of terminal valuation
- Current industry practices followed in company valuation using single or multiple methods
- Incorporate various adjustments to the publicly available versions of Company valuation DELEGATES
