Financial Analysis Modeling and Forecasting
Financial Analysis Modeling and Forecasting
Why Attend
Financial professionals are often asked to provide analysis and projections of finances to help management make decisions. By attending this course, you will be able to prepare and build financial analysis models effectively, understand and analyze the time value of money, and prepare forecasted financial statements.
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:
- Use financial ratio analysis to interpret organizational financial performance and position
- Calculate financial ratios related to the cash flow statement
- Utilize Microsoft Excel in the time value of money calculations
- Apply MS Excel modeling tools, functions such as spinner,
- List box and option button, etc.
- Forecast and build models for the three main financial statements
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
Outline
Financial Analysis Techniques
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- Vertical analysis and strategy
- Horizontal, trend analysis, and growth
- Liquidity analysis:
- Current, quick, and cash ratios, defensive interval, and cash conversion cycle
- Asset management and activity ratios:
- Total and fixed assets turnover
- Solvency analysis:
- Debt, equity, and times interest earned ratios
- Profitability analysis:
- Profit margin, gross margin, return on assets, return on equity, EBITDA
- Market and valuation:
- Price earnings and earnings-per-share ratios
- DuPont analysis: The three-step and five-step models
- Limitation of ratio analysis
Cash flow statement: Interpretation and ratio analysis
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- Â Operating, investing, and financing
- Cash flow pattern; the cash cow
- Related ratios:
- Quality of earnings
- Financial management
- Mandatory cash flow
- Discretionary cash flow
Financial calculations in MS Excel
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- Time value of money:
- Present Value (PV) and Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Multiple IRR (MIRR)
- Using XNPV and XIRR
- Effective yields and returns
- Time value of money:
Model construction techniques using Excel
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- Data tables
- Goal seek
- Spinner data modeling
- List box data modeling
- Option box data modeling
Modeling projected financial statements
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- Micro and macro factors
- Forecasting sales
- Estimating market demand
- Estimating company demand
- Developing sales forecast
- On cost of sales
- Forecasting operating expenses
- Â Key assets and liabilities accounts
- Modeling the income statement
- The balance sheet
- Modeling the cash flow statement
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