Financial Modelling Basics Course

This practical hands-on course is designed to equip would be financial modellers with the three essential building blocks for financial modelling irrespective of previous fields of study and current employment functions.

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Course Overview

The course covers the following: 

  • Essential Excel functions and techniques necessary to build effective flexible financial models and to analyse the model outputs
  • Providing a working knowledge of accounting systems and accepted accounting conventions. Illustrating the design and layout of income statements, cash flow statements and balance sheets and how they interact.
  • Explaining and demonstrating all the key principles, terminology and metrics used in corporate finance and calculating a range of performance ratios and returns
  • Calculating returns by incorporating Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), Free Cash Flows, Net Present Values (NPVs) and Internal Rates of Return (IRR)

All topics are supported by hand-on exercises to reinforce learning and retention.

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Live Online Training

Delegates join online live, interactive webinars for 3 days.

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Comprehensive, practical, hands-on training accessible anywhere.

What clients say about us

Seasoned spreadsheet gurus
From the intermediate modeller to the seasoned spreadsheet guru, we recommend Goalfix’s advanced modelling course as an exceptional opportunity to refresh and renew modelling skills. A very good return on investment.
David J. Bate
Group CEO – Brookwood Capital Corporation
Goalfix is the go-to trainer
The experience of the tutor was very valuable as questions could be addressed from a practical perspective. For any organisation that is serious about the integrity of their modelling capability, Goalfix is the go-to trainer.
Daniel Bopape
Corporate Finance , Exxaro Resources Ltd
Will definitely assist me

Thank you for the financial modelling master class last week. I really found the course very interesting and it will definitely assist me in my work going forward.

Charl Lishman
Financial manager – FNB Africa
Informative and comprehensive

I am new to the Financial Modelling space, but found the Masterclass to be very informative and comprehensive. I appreciate how the material complies with international standards and look forward to applying my new skill-set in the near future.”

Iben Botha
Tsogo Sun
An excellent course!
“t was a pleasure to meet you during the recent financial modelling course. Allow me to congratulate you on an excellent course that I am already starting to use in very practical ways in my day-to-day consulting work.
Willem Buhrmann
Africa Merchant Capital
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