• Competitive challenges for 21^st century business
• Advanced skills in financial modelling with Excel
• Mastering the tools and techniques of financial analysis
• Improving forecasting quality and minimising error
• Effective capital investment decision-making
• Models and techniques for managing risk and uncertainty

• Competitive challenges for 21^st century business
• Advanced skills in financial modelling with Excel
• Mastering the tools and techniques of financial analysis
• Improving forecasting quality and minimising error
• Effective capital investment decision-making
• Models and techniques for managing risk and uncertainty

Who is this Training Course for? 

This BTS training course is designed to provide useful insights and practical skills to professionals from a wide range of disciplines and industry sectors, but particularly those involved in planning, forecasting and investment decision-making in an age of risk and uncertainty. This BTS training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit: 

• Financial accounting team members
• Cost and management accounting staff
• Finance managers
• Planning managers
• Commercial managers
• Capital investment and project team members

Methods:
This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

Lectures
Workshop & Work Presentation
Case Studies and Practical Exercise
Videos and General Discussions

Day One: The Competitive Challenge in the 21^st Century 

• Identifying and managing stakeholder needs
• Business models and how they are disrupted
• An integrated approach to risk management
• The essentials of business performance management

Fundamentals of Financial Modelling

• Financial statements basics
• Fundamentals of financial modelling

Day Two: Mastering Financial Analysis 

• Building a financial ratio database in Excel
• Practical modelling: The cost-volume-profit relationship
• Measuring and improving return on investment
• Measuring and improving asset management efficiency
• Measuring and managing capital structure and risk
• Practical modelling: The effect of gearing on shareholders’ earnings

Day Three: Improving Financial Forecasting 

• Practical modelling: using Excel statistical analysis tools
• Avoiding common forecasting problems
• Using moving averages to analyse time series data
• Using linear regression for sales trend analysis
• Using Excel Solver to minimise forecasting error
• Using regression and correlation to forecast costs
• Practical modelling: Cash flow forecasting

Day Four: Financial Models to Improve Investment Decision-making 

• Principles of capital investment decision-making
• Sources and cost of business finance
• Practical modelling: using Excel discounted cash flow tools
• Practical modelling: Capital investment analysis
• Essentials of business valuation
• Practical modelling: Business valuation based on shareholder value added

Day Five: Managing Risk and Uncertainty 

• Identifying and analysing business risk
• Probability based approach to decision-making
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Sensitivity analysis and “what-if” forecasting
• Identifying the key drivers of financial performance
• Practical modelling: Key driver “what-if” forecast

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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