This document provides information about a financial modeling training program using Excel. The program objectives are to analyze financial data using efficient Excel functions, build effective charts and tables, evaluate financial decisions, prepare reliable forecasts, use optimization tools, and work as a team on financial models. The training is aimed at financial analysts, CEOs/CFOs, portfolio managers, accountants, bankers, and other professionals. The 5-day course covers topics like financial statement forecasting, capital budgeting, pivot tables, VBA, and Monte Carlo simulation. It provides exercises to design models for tasks like loan amortization, financial projections, and project evaluation. Overall, the training teaches skills for financial analysis and modeling in Excel.

1. Financial Modeling using Excel
‫االكسل‬ ‫بإستخدام‬ ‫المالية‬ ‫القوائم‬ ‫نمذجة‬
Managerial and Financial Training Center
‫للتدريب‬ ‫والمالي‬ ‫االداري‬ ‫المركز‬

2. Program Objectives
Analyze financial data using the most efficient and powerful functions
Grab best practice techniques to build the most effective charts and tables
for all your financial data - make an impact on your business and
stakeholders
Learn how to quickly, efficiently and effectively evaluate financial
decisions when undertaking a project, making an investment, acquiring or
disposing of a business, etc.
Be able to prepare realistic and reliable financial forecasts with confidence
Become competent in using optimization tools for getting the best results
in portfolio management, project evaluation and planning Work with a
team on the analysis of a business problem, design part of the model and
then learn how to integrate it into a whole business financial / operational
model.

3. Who should attend
All Excel Users particularly:
 Financial Analysts
 CEO’s / CFO’s
 Portfolio managers/- Corporate accountants
 Credit analysts/- Private equity managers
 Venture capitalists/- Risk managers
 Board members /- Investment bankers
 Regulators /- Bank lending officers
 Financial government officials
 Strategic planners /- Trustees
 Compliance officers/Internal Auditors
 Management consultants
 Corporate Finance lawyers

4. Financial
Modeling
Users
Financial
Analysts
Financial
Modelers
Head of
Finance
Project
Managers Accountants
Financial
Modeling
Areas
Portfolio Risk
Management
& Analysis
Projects'
Finance
Bonds
BanksValuation
Agro-
Industerial
Projects
Financial
Statements
Analysis

5. Day One
Best Practice Financial
Modeling and Tools
Introduction to Financial Modeling
Define a financial model
Principle of Occam’s razor
Interrelationships within a model
Logical arrangement of the parts
Model design and structure
Characteristics of good financial
models
Exploring Excel Functions:
Financial
Date and time
Statistical
Lookup & reference
Database
Text
Logical
Information
Exercise 1: Designing a simple
model for loan amortization

6. Day Two
Modeling & Analyzing Forecasted
Financial Statements
Understanding Basic Financial
Statements
Forecasting guidelines
Modeling the connection between the
income statement and the Balance
Sheet
Assumptions margin
Structuring the input sheet vs output
sheets
Modeling common size statements
Smoothing techniques in forecasting
Simple and multiple regression
analysis
Sensitivity analysis in forecasting
Surplus funds and the necessity to
finance
Static vs. dynamic analysis
Effect of surplus income from surplus
funds
Types of cash flows (Operations,
Investment, Financing)
Modeling payment of successive debt
tranches
Modeling Ratio Analysis and Key
Performance Indicators:
◦ DuPont Analysis
◦ Profitability ratios
◦ Leverage ratios
◦ Coverage ratios
Exercise 2: Forecasting the financial
statements of a company with full
ratio analysis for five years in future

7. Day Three
Project Appraisal and Evaluation
Modeling
 Introduction to Capital Budgeting Techniques
 Understanding net present value
 Understanding internal rate of return
 Going through a worked example of a project cash
flow
 Problems with the IRR calculation
 Multiple IRR
 Shooting yourself in the foot with incorrect
assumptions
◦ NPV
◦ XNPV
◦ IRR
◦ MIRR
◦ XIRR
Exercise 3: Modeling the IRR and MIRR of a
poultry project
 Pivot Tables:
 Introduction to Pivot tables
 Creating a Pivot Table report
 The Pivot Table wizard
 Percentage of column, percentage
of raw, and percentage of previous
Top and bottom 10 feature
 Creating formulas in pivot tables
 Retrieving data from external
sources including access and
internet
 Linking Pivot Tables to MySQL
 Pivot charts manipulation
 Building one variable Data Tables
 Building two variables Data Tables
Exercise 4: building a Pivot Table for
portfolio data

8. Day Four
Introduction to VBA, Stochastic
Modeling and Monte Carlo Simulation
Introduction to VBA
 What is VBA
 What is a macro?
 Creating a simple macro
 Changing multiple properties at once
 Assigning a shortcut key to a macro
 Looking inside a macro
 Objects, properties and methods
 Navigating the Visual Basic Auditor
 Manipulating recorded properties
 Eliminating repeated objects in a recorded macro
 The Select…Selection structure
 The With Selection structure
 Making long statements more readable
 Designate a trusted location for macros
Looping
Branching
Automating spreadsheets
Retrieving data from non-Excel sources
Recording a macro that runs other macros
Exercise 5: Recording a macro in Excel
and navigating through the Basic Editor
Monte Carlo Simulation:
 Monte Carlo simulation versus "what if"
scenarios
 Stochastic vs. static models
 Incorporating decision rules into Monte Carlo
simulations
 Comparing simulation to reality
 Step by step application of Monte Carlo
Simulation
Exercise 6: Examples of Monte Carlo
simulation

9. Day Five
Enhancing and reviewing your Financial Models
Building custom new functions in Excel using VBA
Using a custom function from a worksheet
Adding arguments to a custom function
Making a function volatile
Making arguments optional
Using a custom function from a macro
Developing and storing a new add-in
Exercise 7: Building a new custom Function in Excel and storing it
in an add-in
Reviewing and updating financial models
Exercise 8: Comprehensive case study

10. What Delegates Said About MFTC Courses
MR: Imad EL Choueiri / Program: Certified Compliance Officer
Compliance Manager – Al-Khabeer Merchant Finance Co.
“The Course is well organized & thanks to MFTC for conducting & offering such
beneficial courses”
Mr. Hani Fathi Rageb / Program: ACI Dealing Certificate
Treasury Chief – Emirates Bank
“The course is very useful. It quipped us with all necessary information and tools that can
be applied in our daily routine work”
Mr. Ahmed Mahayri / Program: Chartered Wealth Manager
Money Analyst – SEDCO
“Companies must be licensed by Financial Market Corporation and staff should be
certified wealth managers”
MR: Mehernosh Colsawala / Program: Certified Compliance Officer
Operation & Control Manager – Watheeqah Holding Group Kuwait
“There is a positive interaction between the instructor and trainees which we rarely found in
other training centers. I wish you all the success”

11. MFTC Training Sessions

12. MFTC Clients

13. For Registration and More Information
Managerial and Financial Training Center
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Telephone: 00966(12)6529126 – 6529275 Ext:122
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