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Advanced Finacial Modelling

This course provides advanced training in financial modeling through 10 sessions. Participants will build a comprehensive financial model of a company that forecasts future performance. Key topics include income statements, cash flow, balance sheets, taxation, and sensitivity analysis. By the end of the course, students will have developed a best practices financial model that integrates sensitivity analysis, data tables, and graphics. The course is taught by Stephen Coe, who has over 12 years of experience in financial modeling consulting.

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Advanced Finacial Modelling

This course provides advanced training in financial modeling through 10 sessions. Participants will build a comprehensive financial model of a company that forecasts future performance. Key topics include income statements, cash flow, balance sheets, taxation, and sensitivity analysis. By the end of the course, students will have developed a best practices financial model that integrates sensitivity analysis, data tables, and graphics. The course is taught by Stephen Coe, who has over 12 years of experience in financial modeling consulting.

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Post Graduate Certificate

Advanced Financial Modelling


Introduction

Learning Outcomes Course Contents


This course can be taken as a follow Session 1- Best Practice Modelling. Introduces how to modelling a
on from the intermediate financial company’s accounts. Goes through the four key stages of modelling:
modelling course or by those people Planning, Documentation, Building and Finalisation. Emphasises the
who already have a working key concepts of transparency and simplicity in models, showing how to
knowledge of using Excel. achieve them.
The course uses your Excel skills to Session 2 – Income Statement. Teaches what should be shown in an
build a lifelike model which forecasts income statement and how it needs to be disclosed. Goes further into
the future performance of a company. how best to structure a model and the reasons for doing so.
The course also introduces a number Session 3 – Cash. Introduces the most important calculation in most
of important accounting issues which financial models – the cash calculation. Discusses circular references
are demonstrated in a practical and shows how to code a cash calculation and work out interest using
situation helping attendees see why a simple technique that avoids circular references.
these issues are dealt with in the way
Session 4 – Balance Sheet. Showing what a company owns and what
that they are.
it owes. Working out current assets and current liabilities using ratios.
Each session starts with a lecture The importance and benefits of this approach.
which is followed by am Excel
Session 5 – Non-current Assets. Modelling fixed assets. Depreciation
demonstration of the key points
– What it is, why we need it, how to model depreciation and how to
worked by the lecturer. Participants
prevent assets being over-depreciated. Goodwill – How it arises, how
then have a hands-on session where
it is dealt with in a company’s accounts and how it should be modelled.
they add the current topic to the
model that they will be developing Session 6 – Non-current Liabilities. The different types of debt used by
throughout the course. a company. How these should be modelled and how to work out the
interest on them accurately. How to model equity and reserves.
By the end of the course participants
Revisits the cash calculation to add a more accurate way of working
will have developed a best practice,
out the interest on cash.
robust, fully integrated, financial
forecasting model which includes Session 7 – Taxation. The adjustments that have to be made to the
sensitivity analysis, data tables and accounting profit to give the taxable profit and the reasons for these
graphics and will have learned how to adjustments. How to code a basic tax computation and how to deal
do so again in the future. with tax losses.
Session 8 – Deferred Tax. What deferred tax is and why it arises.
How to model deferred tax on tax losses and deferred tax on
accelerated capital allowances.
Assessment / Reading Session 9 – Sensitivity Analysis. What sensitivity analysis is. Two
References ways of incorporating sensitivity analysis into a mode and how easy it
is to add it to a well written model.
Open book exam lasting up to 3 hours Session 10 – Data Tables & Graphics. What data tables are and how
useful they can be. How to add data tables to a model and use the
results to plot appropriate graphics.

Lecturer – Stephen Coe


After gaining his MA in Engineering at Cambridge University, Stephen Joined KPMG, qualified as a chartered
accountant and spent the next 12 years providing Financial Modelling consulting. He left KPMG to join UBS Warburg
as Associate Director, providing training in financial modelling and corporate finance. His clients include: UBS
Warburg, Close Brothers Corporate Finance, Commerzbank, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson,
HypoVeirnzbank, Merrill Lynch Mercury Asset Management, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, HBOS, Royal Bank of
Scotland, CIBC, Drueker & Co, Doertenbach & Co, Europa Partners Ltd, Krüger & Uhen, Augusta & Co, Rawlinson &
Hay, KPMG, Baker Tilly, Grant Thornton, Cinven, Colliers CRE and the BBC.

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