Financial Analysis Modeling and Forecasting
5 DaysFinancial Analysis Modeling and Forecasting - Virtual Learning
Course Methodology
The course is a hands-on workshop that applies MS Excel to model financial analysis and forecasting through different exercises and case studies.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Interpret organizational financial performance and position using financial ratios
- Analyze and advise on the health of the cash flow statement
- Evaluate future cash flows by utilizing Microsoft Excel time value of money functions
- Apply advanced MS Excel modeling tools and functions in financial projections models
- Build a financial forecasting model for the financial statements' projections
Target Audience
Financial controllers, analysts, finance and accounting managers, supervisors, and finance professionals who need to interpret and analyze financial statements and use them to create financial forecast models in their organizations.
Target Competencies
- Understanding and performing financial analysis
- Performing vertical, horizontal, and trend analysis
- Financial forecasting
- Modeling financial statements
- Applying Excel functions and tools
- Building Dynamic Financial Models
Course Outline
- Financial Analysis Techniques
- Horizontal, trend analysis, and growth
- Vertical analysis and strategy
- Liquidity analysis
- Activity analysis
- Solvency analysis
- Profitability analysis
- Market and valuation analysis
- DuPont analysis: The three-step and five-step models
- Limitation of ratio analysis
- Cash Flow Statement: Interpretation and Ratio Analysis
- Cash flows from operating activities
- Cash flows from investing activities
- Cash flows from financing activities
- Cash flow patterns
- Cash-flow-related ratios
- Quality of earnings
- Financial management
- Mandatory cash flow
- Discretionary cash flow
- Financial Calculations in MS Excel
- The importance of time value of money
- Present Value (PV)
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Using XNPV and XIRR
- Effective yields and returns
- Model Construction Techniques Using Excel
- Data tables
- Goal seek
- Spinner data modeling
- List box data modeling
- Option box data modeling
- Modeling Projected Financial Statements
- Micro and macro factors
- Forecasting sales
- Estimating market demand
- Estimating company demand
- Developing sales forecast
- Forecasting cost of sales
- Forecasting operating expenses
- Forecasting key assets and liabilities accounts
- Modeling the income statement
- Modeling the balance sheet
- Modeling the cash flow statement
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