Financial modeling is the process of creating a quantitative representation of a company’s financial performance. In simple terms, it means building a spreadsheet (usually in Excel) that forecasts a business’s revenues, expenses, cash flows, and valuation based on certain assumptions.

• It’s widely used in investment banking, equity research, corporate finance, and consulting to support decision-making.

Key Features of Financial Modeling:

• Structure: Built in Excel with historical data, assumptions, and projections.
• Inputs: Revenue growth, costs, capital expenditure, financing, tax rates, etc.
• Outputs: Financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow), valuation metrics, and scenario analyses.
• Purpose: Helps assess the financial impact of strategic decisions like mergers, acquisitions, fundraising, new projects, or cost-cutting measures.

Common Types of Financial Models:

1. Three-Statement Model – Links income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
2. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Model – Values a company based on future cash flows.
3. Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Model – Evaluates the impact of combining companies.
4. Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Model – Analyzes returns when buying a company with debt.
5. Budget/Forecasting Models – For internal financial planning.

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Financial Modelling Benefits for Project Managers (as a demo):

👉 In short: Financial modeling is a decision-making tool that translates business strategies and assumptions into numbers to forecast performance and value.

 

Advanced Financial Modelling Workshop: 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.

 

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
• Keys Charts for Dashboarding

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

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

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 valuation

Project Finance Modelling

• Set up a financial model: Timelines, flags and counters
• Understanding date related excel functions to create financial year end and quarter end dates
• Understand forecasting: Setting up revenue and cost drivers, capital expenditures, depreciation, financing structures, tax and dividend related inputs, calculations and outputs and in-built checks
• Set up integrated financial statements and analyzing them
• Compute Project IRR and Equity IRR
• Run Sensitivity Analysis to evaluate changes in key input variables on IRR

Mergers & Acquisitions Analysis and Modelling

• Types of Mergers
• M&A Analysis: Key Drivers and Inputs
• Target Ownership: Treasury Stock Method
• Modelling financing plan and evaluating merger costs
• Accretion/Dilution Analysis

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop advanced Excel skills and appreciate but highly powerful functionalities of MS Excel 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
• Master the art of creating integrated financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
• Understand DCF valuation concept, including free cash flows and role of cost of capital
• 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

• Live Instructor-Led Training
• Post Training Doubt Clearing Support
• Recordings of the Classes
• Certificate of Completion
• 15% additional discount on any other course from ShriLearning

Target Audience:

This workshop 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.

This includes:
– Finance managers and controllers
– Financial analysts and planners
– Investment bankers and equity researchers
– Management consultants and strategy professionals
– CPA, CFA, MBA and other professionals looking to transition into finance roles

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