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Financial Modelling

This seminar provides a step by step guide that takes somebody through the entire process of developing long term projection plans using Excel.

Created byMichael Samonas
IntermediateUpdated Oct 30, 2019

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the role and importance of financial modeling in uncertain environments.
  • check_circleLearn how to create long-term financial projections using Excel.
  • check_circleApply Excel’s Scenario Manager to test different business outcomes.
  • check_circleUse sensitivity analysis to assess risk and variability in financial plans.
  • check_circleIdentify key assumptions and drivers in financial models.
  • check_circleDevelop models that support strategic, proactive decision-making.

About This Course

In today's fast-changing economic landscape, financial modeling in Excel has become an essential skill for finance professionals. This course offers a step-by-step guide to building long-term financial projection models that help organizations anticipate and plan for future risks and opportunities. With growing demand for modeling expertise in the wake of financial uncertainty, the ability to project outcomes and assess risk through structured models is more valuable than ever.

Using tools like Excel's Scenario Manager and Sensitivity Analysis, participants will learn how to incorporate uncertainty into forecasts and make more informed strategic decisions. The course includes practical examples and applications designed to help professionals shift from reactive to proactive financial planning.

Course Content

5 activities • 13 videos • duration: 3h 19m

  • videocamIntroduction 2 Financial Modelling
    Duration 15:26

Your Instructor

Michael Samonas

Group CFO of SIDMA SA. Finance Professor at American College of Greece - Deree.

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Michael Samonas is a finance professional with extensive experience in Financial Planning, Analysis and Modelling. As the Group CFO of SIDMA S.A., he has conducted a range of models for Business planning, valuation, M&A projects, and data analysis. He has more than 25 years of working experience in multinationals including Vodafone S.A. and Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.). He is a Fellow member of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of Economic Chamber of Greece. Along with his practical experience, he teaches specialized courses in Financial Analysis, Equity Valuation & Business Modelling at American College of Greece - Deree, Credit analysis & Cash flow forecasting at University of Piraeus & IBHS and Investment Evaluation & Appraisal. He is the author of Financial Forecasting, Analysis and Modelling: A Framework for Long-Term Forecasting, Wiley Finance Series, Feb. 2015. His interests lie in the field of Credit Risk, Financial Modelling & Valuation. Michael holds an M.Sc. and a PhD degree from the Electronic Engineering department of the University of Surrey as well as an MBA from the University of La Verne California. He also holds a BSc degree in Applied Accounting from University of Oxford Brooks (with honors) and a Postgraduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). He finally holds a BSc in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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54 reviews
  • MG
    Mayling G.
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    Simplified and easy to follow along for beginner level.

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    Tefik S.
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    Great course

  • BW
    Blaine W.
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    DECENT COURSE CONTENT - A LITTLE BASIC AT TIMES

  • PV
    Peter V.
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    The material covered was very good. I did find it hard to understand because of his heavy accent

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