Financial Planning and Analysis: Monthly Cash Flow Forecast Modelling
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Financial Planning and Analysis: Monthly Cash Flow Forecast Modelling Course
Introduction:
Acquire expertise in constructing a rolling 12-month cash flow forecast model through our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) course. In this comprehensive training on monthly cash flow modeling, you will learn how to develop an Excel model from scratch, incorporating assumptions, financial data, supporting schedules, and charts.
The Financial Planning and Analysis: Monthly Cash Flow Forecast Modeling course focuses on forecasting revenues, operating expenses, and changes in balance sheet items to generate a monthly cash flow projection. Additionally, we will analyze the financial implications of the forecast on the business, determine if capital needs to be raised, evaluate credit metrics, and create visually appealing charts to inform management and support executive decision-making.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this Financial Planning and Analysis: Monthly Cash Flow Forecast Modelling training course, you will be able to:
- Apply a structured approach to monthly cash flow modelling in Excel
- Build up the assumptions and formulas required to forecast the business month by month
- Understand how to forecast the financial statements based on the business plan
- Calculate the monthly cash flow
- Analyze the impact of the forecast on the company’s balance sheet and capitalization
- Output relevant graphs to illustrate the cash flow profile to management
Who Should Attend?
Financial Planning and Analysis: Monthly Cash Flow Forecast Modelling training course, is ideal for:
- Anyone working in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), accounting, or finance departments and is required to build monthly financial models in their job. Career paths may include accounting, finance, treasury, and corporate development.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Financial Analysis
- Financial Economic Decision-Making: The challenge
- Financial/economic analysis practice
- Understanding the value-creating company
- Shareholder and corporate value
- Business: A dynamic perspective
- Corporate governance and the agency problem
- Description: What information and data to use?
- Financial statements: Nature
- Financial analysis and decision-making: Context
Financial Modeling Best Practices
- Robust rolling forecast models
- Inputs and assumptions
- Processing and formulas
- Outputs and graphs
- Modeling best practices and tradeoffs
- Interactive exercise 1
Modeling Cash Flows (Review)
- Key learning objectives
- Operating cash flow
- Investing cash flow
- Financing cash flow & circular references
Building Your Financial Model in Excel
- Overview of the modeling process
- Time periods
- Historical assumptions and drivers
- Forecast assumptions and drivers
- Income statement: revenue to EBITDA
- Balance sheet: AR, inventory & AP
- Supporting schedules: PP&E
- Supporting schedules: debt schedule
- Completing the income statement and balance sheet
- Cash flow statement and cash balance
Enhancing Your Model
- Key learning objectives
- Conditional formatting
- Data validation
- Protecting the worksheet
- Auditing the model
- Charts and graphs
- Interactive exercise 2