Course Detail(IT037v : Financial Modelling & Analysis (Synchronous e-learning))

SkillsFuture Credit, UTAP Funding

IT037v : Financial Modelling & Analysis (Synchronous e-learning)

14.00 CPE Hours (Category 5)
Live Webinar

This session is delivered via live webinar (zoom platform).



Programme Objective 

  • Learn how to build effective Financial Model quickly and effectively to meet Business Needs
  • Preparing What-if analysis to allow better Management Decision Making
  • understand the dos and don’ts in Building a Financial Model using Excel
  • prepare Financial Models using Excel systematically
  • leverage on some Excel Functions to enhance the Financial Models
  • prepare Financial Forecast by years with detail supporting worksheets to ease future changes


Course Introduction
 

Are you meeting your boss’s needs by providing quick, useful and up-to-date information for better decision making? Are you frustrated with the high demand from your boss for information and yet you were not able to get data from other functional teams to allow your financial tabulation? Are you able to immediately provide What-If Analysis during a Management Meeting? With globalization and rapid changes top management requires information quickly to make better business decisions. However, the general consensus are most Accountant or Finance Managers are too micro and not able to support such business needs and hence frustrating many top management. This training will equip you with the necessary tools, skills and also provide some insights of business sense you must possessed in order to support the Top Management more effectively.


Expected Outcomes:


At the end of the course, attendees should be able to:

  • understand the dos and don’ts in Building a Financial Model using Excel
  • prepare Financial Models using Excel systematically
  • leverage on some Excel Functions to enhance the Financial Models
  • prepare Financial Forecast by years with detail supporting worksheets for future changes


Special Features


Template for Financial Statement & Investment Model

Samples of the Financial Statement and Investment templates will be given to ease future preparation.

From General to Specific

The approach in training is designed to cover from general, broad principles to specific and client focused scenarios

Manual with ‘Fill-in-the-Blank’ & in Outline Form

The manual is prepared in a user friendly manner where the Fill-in-the-blank allows user to focus and the Outline form made it easy to refer

80/20

80% of the training is to cover the course content specified, 20% to address participants’ Questions to ensure their specific needs are addressed

Real Life Case Study

Participants will be given real life scenarios to discuss and suggest and present ways to overcome and manage the given scenario
 

Programme Outline

 

FINANCIAL MODEL 1: BUILDING LOAN SIMULATOR

  • CASE STUDY:
  • BUILDING LOAN CALCULATION MODEL WITH…
  • Financial Functions: PMT, CUMIPMT
  • Create: Combo Box, Check Box, Scroll Bar
  • Understand the principles behind the design
  • Enhancing the model with more creative Excel functions
  • Understand the business perspective and how to effectively use the Financial Model to support management for better decision making

FINANCIAL MODEL 2: BUILDING FINANCIAL FORECAST & PROJECTIONS

  • CASE STUDY:
  • BUILDING MONTHLY FINANCIAL FORECAST WITH…
  • BALANCE SHEET
  • PROFIT & LOSS
  • CASH FLOW PROJECTIONS
  • FIXED ASSETS
  • CHART
  • SUPPORTING WORK SHEETS
  • Macro Recording

FINANCIAL MODEL 3: BUILDING PROJECT APPRAISAL MODEL

  • CASE STUDY
  • BUILDING AN INVESTMENT MODEL TO CALCULATE..
  • NPV
  • IRR
  • PAYBACK PERIOD
  • INTERGRATING VARIOUS EXCEL FUNCTIONS
  • Scenario Manager & Summary
  • Financial Functions: NPV, IRR, Payback
  • IF Function
  • Multiple IF Function
  • Group & Ungroup
  • MATCH Function
  • Creating Form – Combo Box
  • Understand Basic Macro
  • Assigning Macro to Box
  • Sheet Protect

 
Software Version 

MS Excel 2010
 
Pre-requisites

• Must Possess at least: Intermediate Excel & Basic Financial Knowledge

Please take note of the following admission requirements:

  • Trainings will be conducted on Zoom platform, thus video camera and microphone are compulsory
  • Mandatory for video camera to be turned on throughout the course
  • Display your official name (as per NRIC) in Zoom, to facilitate attendance taking
     

Training Methodology

  • Lecture
  • Group Discussion
  • Hands On
  • Exercise  

Intended For

Finance Managers & Supervisors, Accountants, Participants who need to prepare & understand financials or investment

Competency Mapping

Category 5 = 14.00 Hours

Schedule & Fees

Date & Time

16 Dec 2024 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
17 Dec 2024 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Fee (inclusive of GST)

For Members: $ 610.40
For Non-Members: $ 732.48

Programme Facilitator(s)

Terry Wong

Venue

Online Classroom in or outside of
Singapore

Testimonial


Practical, hands on practice on Excel

Past Participant

Funding

1] SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)
Funding Period: Until 31 Dec 2024
Course Reference Number: TGS-2020501905

All Singaporeans aged 25 and above will receive an opening credit of S$500 from the government. You may wish to use your SFC to pay for partial/full ISCA course fees. 

On 1 Oct 2020, the Government provided a one-off SkillsFuture Credit Top-up of $500 for all eligible Singaporeans aged 25 or above by 31 Dec 2020. Singaporeans aged 40 to 60 by 31 Dec 2020 will also receive an Additional SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career Support) of $500 which can be used for courses under: (i) SGUnited Skills Programme, (ii) SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme – Company Training, and (iii) Career Transition Programmes. This additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) is NOT applicable for use on ISCA courses. (For more information on the SFC scheme, please visit http://www.skillsfuture.sg/credit)

If you wish to enrol for the course with SFC Funding, please proceed with the following steps:

Failure to submit claim application and obtain necessary approval before the course start date will result in topping up of the SFC indicated for use. Please note that there will be an administrative fee of $43.20 for any revision of invoice.

 

2] NTUC Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)
UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme) is an individual skills upgrading account for NTUC members.
 

To find out more on the UTAP funding and support validity period please click here.
 
Should you have queries on the funding scheme, you can email to UTAP@e2i.com.sg or call NTUC Membership Hotline at 6213-8008

 

Programme Facilitator(s)


Terry Wong
 
Mr. Terry Wong (ACCA) is an experienced trainer and heavy user of MS Excel. He started his career in IBM’s Shared Service Center as an Accounting Analyst where he is required to be involved in many process improvement projects and initiatives, including leveraging on creative Excel to build templates, streamline processes and automate reports and tools. Subsequently, he became an Accounting System Analyst in IBM where his role is involved in system technical support.  This gave him a platform to provide numerous in-house training, to more than 300 accountants across finance and accounting department. His training received great feedback and was invited to provide training to non-accounting department and also to offices outside the region such as emerging market in Far East countries.

Being the technical support that understand both the technical knowledge and with the proper finance professional qualification, Terry was able to quickly understand and help his audience to brainstorm, provide smart and practical insights in dealing and solving many real-life work challenges using MS Excel.  

His strong analytical skill, capability to quickly research coupled with detail process driven nature makes him a competent trainer in helping participants to come out with creative ideas in solving work problems. He is frequently engaged to conduct small group coaching in guiding internal advanced MS Excel users to further streamline and enhance the reports and work processes through MS Excel.  


 

This session is delivered via live webinar (zoom platform).



Programme Objective 

  • Learn how to build effective Financial Model quickly and effectively to meet Business Needs
  • Preparing What-if analysis to allow better Management Decision Making
  • understand the dos and don’ts in Building a Financial Model using Excel
  • prepare Financial Models using Excel systematically
  • leverage on some Excel Functions to enhance the Financial Models
  • prepare Financial Forecast by years with detail supporting worksheets to ease future changes


Course Introduction
 

Are you meeting your boss’s needs by providing quick, useful and up-to-date information for better decision making? Are you frustrated with the high demand from your boss for information and yet you were not able to get data from other functional teams to allow your financial tabulation? Are you able to immediately provide What-If Analysis during a Management Meeting? With globalization and rapid changes top management requires information quickly to make better business decisions. However, the general consensus are most Accountant or Finance Managers are too micro and not able to support such business needs and hence frustrating many top management. This training will equip you with the necessary tools, skills and also provide some insights of business sense you must possessed in order to support the Top Management more effectively.


Expected Outcomes:


At the end of the course, attendees should be able to:

  • understand the dos and don’ts in Building a Financial Model using Excel
  • prepare Financial Models using Excel systematically
  • leverage on some Excel Functions to enhance the Financial Models
  • prepare Financial Forecast by years with detail supporting worksheets for future changes


Special Features


Template for Financial Statement & Investment Model

Samples of the Financial Statement and Investment templates will be given to ease future preparation.

From General to Specific

The approach in training is designed to cover from general, broad principles to specific and client focused scenarios

Manual with ‘Fill-in-the-Blank’ & in Outline Form

The manual is prepared in a user friendly manner where the Fill-in-the-blank allows user to focus and the Outline form made it easy to refer

80/20

80% of the training is to cover the course content specified, 20% to address participants’ Questions to ensure their specific needs are addressed

Real Life Case Study

Participants will be given real life scenarios to discuss and suggest and present ways to overcome and manage the given scenario
 

Programme Outline

 

FINANCIAL MODEL 1: BUILDING LOAN SIMULATOR

  • CASE STUDY:
  • BUILDING LOAN CALCULATION MODEL WITH…
  • Financial Functions: PMT, CUMIPMT
  • Create: Combo Box, Check Box, Scroll Bar
  • Understand the principles behind the design
  • Enhancing the model with more creative Excel functions
  • Understand the business perspective and how to effectively use the Financial Model to support management for better decision making

FINANCIAL MODEL 2: BUILDING FINANCIAL FORECAST & PROJECTIONS

  • CASE STUDY:
  • BUILDING MONTHLY FINANCIAL FORECAST WITH…
  • BALANCE SHEET
  • PROFIT & LOSS
  • CASH FLOW PROJECTIONS
  • FIXED ASSETS
  • CHART
  • SUPPORTING WORK SHEETS
  • Macro Recording

FINANCIAL MODEL 3: BUILDING PROJECT APPRAISAL MODEL

  • CASE STUDY
  • BUILDING AN INVESTMENT MODEL TO CALCULATE..
  • NPV
  • IRR
  • PAYBACK PERIOD
  • INTERGRATING VARIOUS EXCEL FUNCTIONS
  • Scenario Manager & Summary
  • Financial Functions: NPV, IRR, Payback
  • IF Function
  • Multiple IF Function
  • Group & Ungroup
  • MATCH Function
  • Creating Form – Combo Box
  • Understand Basic Macro
  • Assigning Macro to Box
  • Sheet Protect

 
Software Version 

MS Excel 2010
 
Pre-requisites

• Must Possess at least: Intermediate Excel & Basic Financial Knowledge

Please take note of the following admission requirements:

  • Trainings will be conducted on Zoom platform, thus video camera and microphone are compulsory
  • Mandatory for video camera to be turned on throughout the course
  • Display your official name (as per NRIC) in Zoom, to facilitate attendance taking
     

Training Methodology

  • Lecture
  • Group Discussion
  • Hands On
  • Exercise  

Intended For

Finance Managers & Supervisors, Accountants, Participants who need to prepare & understand financials or investment

Competency Mapping

Category 5 = 14.00 Hours

Programme Facilitator(s)

Terry Wong
 
Mr. Terry Wong (ACCA) is an experienced trainer and heavy user of MS Excel. He started his career in IBM’s Shared Service Center as an Accounting Analyst where he is required to be involved in many process improvement projects and initiatives, including leveraging on creative Excel to build templates, streamline processes and automate reports and tools. Subsequently, he became an Accounting System Analyst in IBM where his role is involved in system technical support.  This gave him a platform to provide numerous in-house training, to more than 300 accountants across finance and accounting department. His training received great feedback and was invited to provide training to non-accounting department and also to offices outside the region such as emerging market in Far East countries.

Being the technical support that understand both the technical knowledge and with the proper finance professional qualification, Terry was able to quickly understand and help his audience to brainstorm, provide smart and practical insights in dealing and solving many real-life work challenges using MS Excel.  

His strong analytical skill, capability to quickly research coupled with detail process driven nature makes him a competent trainer in helping participants to come out with creative ideas in solving work problems. He is frequently engaged to conduct small group coaching in guiding internal advanced MS Excel users to further streamline and enhance the reports and work processes through MS Excel.  


 


Upcoming Schedule

Date & Time

16 Dec 2024 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
17 Dec 2024 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Fee (inclusive of GST)


SGD pricing -

For Members: $ 610.40
For Non-Members: $ 732.48


Programme Facilitator(s)

Terry Wong

Venue

Online Classroom in or outside of
Singapore