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Financial Modelling programme

Financial Modelling is a tool widely used in businesses to define and compare the impact of specific business initiatives and alternative scenarios on a company's financial position. It is a vital task, and experienced professionals are highly appreciated. The technique requires the building of a financial representation of the business on a spreadsheet, and the identification and manipulation of key performance drivers to explore the impact of different operational and financial options.

Objectives of the course

The Intermeditate Financial Modelling is focused predominately on providing basic to intermediate financial modelling skills using Microsoft Excel and is specifically biased to those individuals seeking to learn new skills and develop a new understanding of financial modelling.

The skills that will be obtained will assist the individual to plan and develop Excel spreadsheets that can analyse, manipulate and provide solutions to the types of questions that arise within the working environment from a variety of data sources.  

Whilst the fundamentals of financial modelling is accountancy biased, no prior knowledge of accountancy is required, although it is helpful in understanding the direction of the course, which is to build a working financial model yielding the key financial statement outputs, ie. profit & loss account and balance sheet.  

This programme will also  lead students wishing to learn and build a more advanced accounting financial model for valuation, inflation and discounting purposes.

Basic pre-requisites:

It is essential that the individual should have good basic/intermediate PC and mouse skills and a good understanding of the basic use of Excel. These requirements must be met before the candidate can take the course.

Who is it for?

The course is designed for any professional , with or without experience in financial modelling, wishing to become more confident and dynamic in the Excel skills that are highly sought after by investment banks, top accountancy firms and blue-chip financial organisations.