FINANCIAL ANALYSIS USING EXCEL COURSE

Duration

10 Days

Who should attend?

This certificate course is for analysts, financial officers, and portfolio managers seeking a deeper understanding of Valuation, and the skills and knowledge to confidently make financial decisions.

Course Objective:

·         creating professional charts in Microsoft Excel

·         working with large amounts of data

·         Understanding Accounting and Bookkeeping principles

·         Building a company’s financial statements

·         Performing Financial Statement Analysis

·         Understanding importance of timing in terms of revenue and cost recognition

·         Calculating Liquidity, Solvency, Profitability, and Growth ratios

·         assessing project feasibility

·         calculating a complete loan schedule

·         Understanding the difference between variable and fixed interest rates

·         Performing industry analysis

·         Understanding drives a company’s value

·         analyzing a business

Course content

Session 1: Financial Modeling

·          Accuracy, flexibility, User-friendliness

·          Structural standards

·          Iteration, Circular Errors, the #REF! Problem

·          Factual checks, Rational checks, Structural checks,

·          Model Stress Testing, Proofreading

Session 2: Financial modeling Functions

·          Different ways of summing and counting: SUM; SUMIF;

·          SUMPRODUCT; COUNT; COUNTA; COUNTBLANK; COUNTIF and IF functions

·          ROUND; ROUNDUP; ROUNDDOWN; CEILING; FLOOR; INT;

·          TRUNC; MOD

·          HLOOKUP; VLOOKUP

·          Discounting on uneven periods: NPV; XNPV; IRR; XIRR

·          Data validation; Text to column

·          Pivot tables, what if analysis and data tables

·          Sensitivity and scenario analysis

Session 3: Modeling for financial and operational planning

• A working capital management model

· A capital budgeting model

· An inventory policy model

· A plant opening/closing model

Session 5: Additional Analysis in Financial Modeling

·          Debt repayment

·          Modeling based on seniority of debt obligations

·          Book Depreciation and Tax Depreciation and modeling deferred tax

·          asset/liability

·          Modeling Asset Sales

Session 6: Credit Perspective

·          Capital Structure

·          Leverage Ratios

·          Interest Coverage

·          Working Capital

·          Operating Results

·          Liquidity Ratios

Session 7: Capital Structure Analysis

· Existing Debt

· Bank Revolver

· Other Long-Term Debt

· Preferred Stock

· Book Capitalization

· Total Debt

· Book Equity

· Borrowing Base

· Revolver Debt

Session 7: Cost of Capital Modelling

Session 8: Valuation models using Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

• Free Cash Flow to Firm

· Free Cash Flow to Equity

· Single stage and multi stage models

· Principles of financial analysis using NPV, IRR, PBP and other measures

· Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

· Relative Valuation

· Hybrid of DCF and relative valuation

· Conducting reality check on results

Session 9: Modeling for Corporate Finance Transaction

Session 10: Evaluation of Newly built financial model

· Objectives

· Assumptions

· Logical flow

· Key inputs

· Interrelationships among inputs

· Expected output

· Factual checks, Rational checks, Structural checks

GENERAL NOTES

 i.   The clients have many options on where they would wish to have the training

Onsite training                                                                 Online Training

a.       Mombasa                                                                      a. Zoom

b.      Nairobi                                                                          b. Webex

c.       Naivasha                                                                       c. Google meets

d.      Machakos                                                                     d. Google teams

e.       Thika

f.       Nakuru

g.      At work place

ii. The client should communicate their preferred training venue at least seven days before the training date failure to which the training shall take place in Nairobi.

 iii. This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

 iii. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

 iv. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a Chania finance consultancy certificate.

 v.   The onsite training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, tea at 10am, lunch, tea at 4pm, training venue and a certificate on completion. Accommodation and travel may be arranged for our participants upon request.

 vi.   The online training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, and a certificate on completion.