Course curriculum

    1. How to use this Platform

    2. Your Expectations

    3. Ask The Trainer

    1. Preparing the Model Guide Sheet

    2. Building Model Details Section

    3. Documenting Model Timings

    4. Listing the Model Sheet Structure

    5. Building the Styles Section

    6. Normal Style

    7. Number Styles

    8. Label Styles

    9. Flag Styles

    10. Implementing Styles

    11. Listing Names Section

    12. Adding Glossary Section

    13. Building Audit Check

    14. Building Version Control Section

    15. Label Automation with the Alpha Omega Trick

    16. Creating Outlines

    1. Exercise Files

    2. Building the Cover Sheet

    3. Implementing a Column Structure for the Model

    4. Implementing a Row Structure for the Model

    5. Automating Sheet Structure Timing

    6. Inserting Actual and Forecast Flags

    7. Setting up the Sheet for Printing

    8. Duplicating the Sheet Structure

    9. Finalising your Model Sheet Structure

    1. Nestle Nigeria PLC 2019 Financials - Download

    2. Exercise Files

    3. Extracting Historical Financial Statements

    4. Purpose of normalizing the financial statements

    1. Exercise Files

    2. Defining a Preferred PorL Structure

    3. Creating a Template for accurate Restructuring

    4. Restructuring Process for PL

    5. Extracting the Depreciation and Impairment Values

    6. Dealing with incomplete information

    7. Normalizing the cost of sales

    8. Identifying depreciation on cost of sales

    9. Normalizing the SG&A

    10. Normalizing Net Finance Cost

    11. Extracting Current and Deferred Tax Expense

    12. Reconciling the normalized PorL

    1. Exercise Files

    2. Purpose of normalizing the Balance Sheet

    3. Plan for Restructuring non-Current Assets

    4. Restructuring of Non-current Assets

    5. Planning the restructuring of Trade and Other Receivables

    6. Long-term receivables linked to Trade and other receivables

    7. Restructuring Trade and Other Receivables

    8. Treating allowances for credit losses and other payables

    9. Reconciling restructured value with audit values

    10. Restructuring all other Assets

    11. Planning the restructuring of Liabilities

    12. Restructured Trade and Other Payables

    13. Building loans and borrowings

    14. Extracting Loans and Borrowings information

    15. Extracting Equity Values

    16. Finalising the BS Restructuring Template

    17. Building out the Restructured balance Sheet

    18. Linking the restructured note line item to restructured balance sheet

    19. Linking values to restructured line item of the balance sheet

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David Brown

FCA, Microsoft MVP

David has worked with and taught Excel and financial modelling to over 4,000 people in the last 22 years. He is the Managing Partner of dbrownconsulting where he runs the Consulting Division.He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria & a Financial Analyst with over 16 years experience working as a Business intelligence, Financial Modelling & Tax Consultant with Arthur Andersen, KPMG & dbrownconsulting.He is also an International Consultant to the World Bank on Oil Revenue Modelling and is a registered financial adviser.David attained the Master Trainer & Master Instructional Designer designation from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).He is passionate about Financial Modelling, Business Intelligence and Analytics especially with Microsoft Power BI and Excel and regularly host meetups and speaker event in Nigeria and around the world.