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Certificate in Financial Modelling and Valuation Online Live

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GT Academy is pleased to launch its “Certificate in Financial Modelling & Valuation Online Live”. The programme is crafted for working professional & students to provide them practical exposure of Financial Modelling and Valuation, help them understand and build business & valuation models. programme has been designed in a way to provide & ensures that conceptual knowledge is imparted with perfect blend of industry practices. Our approach involves focusing on concepts through case studies to help our participants relate the scenarios to their job roles.

This programmeme will help you to create financial models that can be understood and easily implemented to gain insights into the opportunities and risks being faced by businesses. This programmeme will also help you to gauge the performance of a financial asset or portfolio of a business project or any other investment.

Learning Outcome:

The programmeme will focus on:

  • Clearing MS Excel doubts and refreshing Excel formulas
  • Designing financial models
  • Designing revenue and expense models for various industries like consumer goods, modern retail, real estate and auto components and creating basic macros
  • Creating dashboards to present models in a summarised manner
  • Presenting reports using models
  • Valuation techniques

Program Deliverables

The Program will focus on:

  • 70 hours of Study
    • 40 hours of instructor led session through CISCO WEBEX
    • 30 hours of recorded VBA & additional Case studies
  • Final assessment
  • Access to Grant Thornton LMS of 1 year
  • Certificate of completion on successfully passing the final assessment

Who Should Attend -

  • Investment bankers
  • Equity researchers
  • Professionals working in corporate finance or M&A domain
  • Chartered Accountants
  • MBA finance and commerce graduates
  • Professionals working in the finance domain

Program Coverage

Excel
  • Understanding and Creating a Financial Model Template
  • Refreshing important Excel functions to be used in financial modelling and valuation
    • String Function
    • Offset function
    • Data table
    • Goal seek
    • Linking multiple sheets and files etc.
    • Macros
    • Learning Custom formatting peculiar to creating financial models
    • Learning referencing (usage of $) and its significance in the financial model
Basic Business Model
  • Understanding Business Model
Financial Statements
  • Creating Historical Statements
  • Assumptions
  • Forecast
Valuation
  • Applying DCF
Financial Model - Data:
  • Data Collection
  • Data Structuring
  • Public and Private data sources
  • Preliminary Scrutiny of the Data and Information
Modelling
  • Working on Historical Statements
  • Modelling Assumptions for Future Action
  • Revenue Build-up – projecting the future revenues
  • Cost Build-up – projecting the future cost
  • Asset Schedule
  • Depreciation Schedule – Book and Income Tax Depreciation
  • Working Capital and Term Loan Modeling – Debt Infusion
  • Modeling Impact of Accumulated Losses, Current Tax and Deferred Tax on Tax Payable
  • Equity Modeling – Equity Infusion
  • Modeling Paid Up Capital and Share Premium Account
  • Cash Flow Statement Projection
Valuation
  • Cost of Equity - CAPM
  • Net cost of Debt
  • WACC
  • Absolute Valuation: Performing Valuation using DCF (FCFF and Enterprise Value)
  • Relative Valuation: Comparable Analysis
  • Performing Sensitivity/Scenario Analysis
Project Valuation – Introduction
  • Introduction and context
  • Understanding an integrated financial Model
Project Valuation – Creating a Model for NPV & IRR
  • Understanding basics
  • Building flexibility for cash flow at unpredictable time
  • Building flexibility in Model
Modelling Delays
  • Date arithmetic and creating flexible template
  • Lookup revenues and costs
  • Quarterly to Yearly Revenue consolidation using SumIf
Project Valuation – Circular Logic and looping
  • Interest During Construction
  • Interest and Cash
Project Valuation – Creating EPC Schedule
  • Finding out different cost involved in the project
  • Calculating complete project cost
Project Valuation – CAPEX Schedule
  • Finding out the total capex required for the project
  • Converting monthly items to annual
Project Valuation – P&L
  • Working on different sources of revenue
  • Calculating expenses
  • Using DCF
  • Calculating IRR
Project Valuation – Asset Schedule
  • When, what is required?
Project Valuation – Valuation
  • Using DCF
  • Calculating IRR
Project Valuation – GANTT Chart
  • Tracking progress of the project
Visualization - Interactive Excel Dashboard
  • Introduction
  • Dashboard design tips
  • Data Sources
  • Possible data sources
  • Format data in table
  • Building dashboard
  • Pivot for the line chart
  • Bar Chart
  • Pie Pivot
  • Sparklines Pivots
  • Map Pivots
  • Interactivity with slicers
  • Dynamic titles
  • Design and Layout
M&A - Introduction
  • Meaning and Categories of M&A
  • Merger Motivations
  • Forms of Payment in a Merger Deal
M&A - Evaluation
  • Evaluating a Merger Bid
  • Case: Estimating fair acquisition price of the target company in M&A
  • Identifying assumptions for estimating future cash flows
  • Calculating FCFF, discount and terminal rate and NPV
  • Comparable Companies
  • Defining comparative value metric
  • Estimating takeover premium and calculating takeover price
  • Comparable transactions and defining comparative value metric
  • Calculating the valuation of the company
M&A - Valuation
  • Case: Live Case
  • Why this case
  • Finding out rationale for the transaction
  • Searching and researching relevant reports
  • Understanding the usage of 10K and 10Q
  • Collecting and projecting numbers
  • Merger Analysis – Key Drivers and Inputs
  • Projecting both companies' numbers
  • Find out the impact of deal announcement on share price
  • Creating high level merger accounting for goodwill – Pooling method
  • Accretion/Dilution Analysis and Modeling a Financing Plan
  • Performing Sensitivity Analysis on Acquirer's EPS, Contribution Analysis

Cancellation and refund policy

The refund policy in case of withdrawal of nomination would work as follows:-

  • A refund of 50% of the fee would be provided for cancellation requests received up to five working days before the training start date
  • Participants who cancel in less than five working days, or there is no show on the training date are  liable to pay the full course fee and would not be entitled to refunds.

Cancellations must be made via emails only. However desirous participants can be accommodated in the future batches of programme, without paying anything extra. It is requested that willingness to attend any future programme should be communicated at the earliest convenience.

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