Advanced Financial Modelling using Excel

Course details

This highly practical, hands-on course has been designed to build on your basic knowledge of finance and excel.The course will strengthen the already existing model structuring skills.A structured design strategy will be adopted throughout the course in order to develop the skills of good excel model development.These skills are then applied to building high quality financial models. Participants will have the chance to work on their own models.

Objectives

On completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Design,    cross-check and     structure financial models effectively
• Build robust and effective models in which add- ins can be perform and to which amendments can be made without destroying the model integrity
• Create and compare scenarios –  current case, best case, worst case and expected case – in order to make decision-making easier
• Create models quickly following the basic rules of good model construction  

Target Audience

Analysts, Investors, Investment advisers, Planners and other finance professionals.

Course Structure

The course is conducted using a combination of lectures, discussions and practical workshop sessions.

Program Contents

• Useful ideas to speed up spreadsheet design
• Validating data and producing dropdown lists
• Sumif Countif and excel’s database
• Vlookup, Hlookup, Lookup, Match & Index
• Row and column functions
• Outlining – collapsing rows and  columns
• Working with arrays, array formulas and array constants
• Some other advanced functions (e.g. data consolidation, macro recording and use of the CTRL key)
• Model structure, types of financial models, monthly financial models
• Financial ratios and sensitivity analysis
• Cost of capital, loans – capital and interest repayment
• Return on investment
• Scenarios and Valuing companies
• Model optimisation and Basic forecasting