Fundamentals of Financial Modelling
Build a financial model from blank workbook to integrated statements — disciplined structure, dynamic scenarios and the testing habits that keep errors out of the numbers.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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Most financial models work until someone changes an assumption. This programme teaches participants to build models that survive use: a disciplined, structured build from revenues, operating and maintenance costs and capital expenditure through depreciation, debt and equity financing and taxation, up to integrated financial statements. The model is dynamic — scenarios can be run and the timing of key events adjusted — and the techniques produce work that is flexible, robust, transparent and usable by people other than the author. The cohort also works on tailoring outputs to end users, interpreting results, running sensitivities and testing to cut the incidence of modelling errors.
What you will do
Who attends
- Analysts and finance professionals in corporate institutions
- Financial institution teams who build or review models
- Managers who depend on model outputs for decisions
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Model architecture
- What makes a good model — and a bad one
- A logical, structured, disciplined approach to building
- Flexibility, robustness and transparency as design goals
II.Building the engine
- Revenues, operating and maintenance costs, capital expenditure
- Depreciation, debt and equity financing, taxation
- Integrating the financial statements
III.Scenarios and outputs
- Dynamic scenarios and adjustable event timing
- Sensitivity and scenario analysis
- Tailoring outputs to end users and interpreting results
IV.Testing and error control
- Testing approaches that catch errors before users do
- Spreadsheet support tools and techniques
- Financial forecasting discipline
Frequently asked
Do I need prior modelling experience to attend?
No prior modelling background is assumed — this is a fundamentals programme that starts from a blank workbook and follows a disciplined, structured build sequence. It serves analysts and finance professionals in corporate institutions, financial institution teams who build or review models, and managers who depend on model outputs for decisions.
What kind of model will I build on the course?
An integrated three-statement model built stepwise from revenues, operating and maintenance costs and capital expenditure through depreciation, debt and equity financing and taxation. The model is dynamic — scenarios can be run and the timing of key events adjusted — and the course teaches testing habits that reduce modelling errors before users find them.
In which languages is the course taught, and how do I get fees and dates?
The course is delivered in English and French, on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request. Fees and quotations are provided on enquiry. An in-house edition tailored to your organisation is also available, so a whole finance or analyst team can build to the same modelling standard together.
Who teaches this
Practitioners, not presenters.
Led by practitioners who hold, or have held, the seats this programme prepares you for: group treasurers and heads of asset–liability management, chief risk officers, heads of credit and capital management, and former central-bank supervisors who examined the very frameworks they now teach. Between cohorts the same people advise banks on those frameworks, so what you learn is what is being defended in front of boards and regulators today.
What the bench brings
- Financial modelling, valuation and forecasting
- Treasury products and trading-book management
- Derivatives, market and counterparty risk
- Mergers, acquisitions and transaction models
- Business modelling and scenario design
- Digital wealth and fintech models
Where they have practised
Current and former practitioners — people who hold the seat today alongside those who have held it.
Sectors: Banking & financial services · Professional services · Technology & fintech
Regions: Africa · the Middle East · Europe · Asia · the Americas
How they teach
- Live case studies from real institutions
- Modelling labs and balance-sheet simulations
- Regulator-style challenge sessions
- Group problem-solving on realistic institutional cases
- Knowledge checks and a personal action plan
Cohorts are kept small so every exercise is worked on the participants’ own situations — in person or live virtual.
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