Certified Financial Modeling and DCF Valuation Specialist
This intensive course is designed to equip participants with advanced skills in financial modeling and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuation techniques.
Why value a company?
The Investor's perspective
What drives a Firm's value?
Calculating Unlevered free cash flows
Using an appropriate discount factor
Estimating cost of debt
Estimating cost of equity
Forecasting future cash flows
Caclulating Terminal value
Discounting future cash flows
Calculating Enterprise and Equity value of the firm
A quick summary of the various stages of a complete DCF valuation
Let's go through the structure of the DCF model we will create in Excel
Modeling the top line of the financial model
This is how you can build flexible financial models in Excel
Modeling other items: Other revenues and Cogs
Modeling other items: Operating expenses and D&A
Modeling other items: Interest expenses, Extraordinary Items and Taxes
How to forecast balance sheet items - The practical and easy to understand way
A key concept for finance practitioners - the "Days" methodology
Learn how to calculate "Days"
How to use Days in order to project the future development of some BS items
Forecasting Property, plant & equipment, Other assets and Other liabilities
Excel best practices! Create a good-looking and clean output sheet in your model
Applying what we learned in practice - Populating the P&L sheet
This is how you can create a clean output Balance Sheet in your financial model
Completing the Output BS Sheet For the Historical Period