Financial Modeling - Dubai

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Course Key Features

  • - Certificate of Participation
  • - Case Studies
  • - Presentation Handouts
  • - Relevant E-books

Skills Covered

  • - Advanced Excel Skills
  • - Understand DCF valuation concept
  • - Building Macros
  • - Organizing and planning models
  • - Logical framework for problem solving

Financial Modeling - Dubai Certification Course Overview

Financial modelling is a powerful tool which can be utilized for projecting the future financial performance of any company or a project. This workshop is designed to equip finance professionals and analysts with the skills to build robust and dynamic financial models. Through interactive sessions and case studies, participants will learn advanced Excel techniques, financial modelling best practices, and business valuation concepts. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to create complex financial models and perform business valuations with confidence.

This workshop likewise is designed for finance professionals, analysts, managers or professionals working in equity research houses who want to enhance their financial modelling skills and stay ahead in their careers.

 

Course Eligibility

Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of finance concepts and MS Excel, No prior experience in financial modelling is required.

This course is suitable for :

- Finance managers and controllers

- Financial analysts and planners

- Investment bankers and equity researchers

- Management consultants and strategy professionals

- CPA and CFA professionals

- MBA students and finance professionals looking to transition into finance roles

 

Certification 

Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

SELF PACED COURSE

Price
  • 6 months e-Learning access
  • Certificate of Participation
  • Case Studies
  • Presentation Handouts
  • Relevant E-books

LIVE ONLINE TRAINING

Price
  • 2 days of Live Training
  • Certificate of Participation
  • Case Studies
  • Presentation Handouts
  • Relevant E-books

CLASSROOM TRAINING

Price
  • 2 days of Classroom Training
  • Certificate of Participation
  • Case Studies
  • Presentation Handouts
  • Relevant E-books

Course Outline

MS Excel Essentials for Financial Modelling
- Referencing vs Spilled array concept
- Logical and Conditional functions
- Conventional vs. New-age Lookup
- Data analysis and visualization using Pivot Table
- What-If Analysis

 

Financial Modelling Comprehensive Case for Operations
- Setting up a robust financial model from start to end

- Understanding forecasting, setting up revenue and cost drivers, capital expenditures, depreciation,financing structures, tax and dividend related inputs, calculations and outputs
- Setting up integrated financial statements and analyzing them

 

Pre-Operations Modelling
- Modelling the project set-up cost elements
- Incorporating financing including modelling debt and interest during construction (IDC)
- Breaking circular reference in the model using Excel’s in-built functionality and VBA Macros

 

Business Valuation
- Understanding valuation concepts, including key factors to consider
- Computing free cash flows
- Estimating cost of equity using CAPM model
- Understanding tax shield to arrive at cost of debt
- Computing weighted average cost of capital
- Evaluating Gordon Growth Model for Terminal value computation
- Running sensitivities by changing key variables used in valuati

Learning Outcomes

  • - Develop advanced Excel skills and appreciate but highly powerful functionalities to get the most out of spreadsheets using the ‘principles of well-designed spreadsheets
  • - Learn to build robust and dynamic financial models, including forecasting revenue and cost drivers, and financing structures
  • - Understand DCF valuation concept, including free cash flows and role of cost of capital
  • - Master the art of creating integrated financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
  • - Analyze and interpret financial models, including identifying key drivers and running sensitivities 
  • - Apply best practices in financial modelling, including model design, layout, and error checking

Financial Modeling - Dubai Training FAQs

Course Benefits

  • Financial modelling exercises help in providing instant answers to things that may take months or even years to actually take place.
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of best-practice modeling principles.
  • Financial models can help in providing monthly assessments of the actual performance of the company versus what the budget or plan predicted it would. It helps business owners to make adjustments that will ensure the business rakes in profits at the
  • Build a defendable forecast for revenue and cost drivers
  • Financial models help projects and businesses to lower financial risks. This is because business owners will know that if they do this, then this is what is likely to occur.
  • Learn how to extract relevant company information from various data sources
  • Most business owners are not specialists of analyzing their business financials through modeling. This is because some people do not like dealing with numbers. However, if you do not enjoy this, then you should get assistance from financial modeling
  • Business models can easily be shared with other individuals who are situated in various locations. This helps in enhancing input and analysis because you get feedback from different people in your organizations.

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