Financial Analysis is crucial for making investment decisions that can have a huge financial impact on companies. By attending this seminar, you will be able to effectively prepare and build financial models that cater to different types of investments alternatives, understand and analyze time value of money, present value, future value and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), in addition to conducting a proper analysis of financial information.

You can perform a financial analysis with Excel in an easy way. Excel provides you with several financial functions such as PMT, PV, NPV, XNPV, IRR, MIRR, XIRR, and so on that enable you to quickly arrive at the financial analysis results.

Training Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to :

• Apply time value of money concepts
• Perform and interpret financial analysis
• Apply the cost of capital calculation techniques
• Construct forecasted financial statement models and perform sensitivity analysis
• Use the free cash flow technique in determining the value of a project or a company

 Target Audience :

Professionals in corporate finance, financial analysts, investment bankers, financial controllers, finance managers, professionals responsible for project valuation, project finance, portfolio managers, and professionals in the private investment industry.

Course Contents :

Corporate financial analysis

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Profit and loss versus balance sheet analysis
• Comparable company analysis
• Building block analysis
• LiquidityAsset management and activity
  • Current, quick, and cash ratios
• Solvency, leverage and gearing
  • Debt, equity, and times interest earned ratios
• Assessing profitability management
  • Profit margin, gross margin, return on assets, return on equity
• Market and valuation modelling the DuPont identity
  • Price-earnings and earnings per share ratios

Financial calculations: Applications

• Time value of money: Amortization of loan schedule
  • Present value and net present value
  • Internal rate of return and Multiple IRR (MIRR)
  • Using XNPV and XIRR
• Effective yields and returns

Calculating the cost of capital and capital structure

• Calculating the cost of equity and cost of debt
• Computing the expected return on the market
• Computing weighted average cost of capital