This self-paced bootcamp blends advanced Excel training with real-world finance and accounting concepts, allowing you to learn on your own schedule. You’ll build professional financial models step by step, including integrated three-statement and discounted cash flow models, while developing the core skills used in high-stakes financial analysis across corporate finance and investment roles.
As you progress through the course, you’ll strengthen Excel skills specific to finance, including advanced functions, data tables, auditing tools, data validation, and Goal Seek to create dynamic, accurate models. You’ll also explore essential finance and accounting concepts such as enterprise value, accrual accounting, and market capitalization, then apply them by building full valuation models with real company data. By the end, you’ll know how to test your models, run sensitivity analysis, and use your outputs to support valuation and decision-making in professional settings.
What You Will Learn
- Core financial concepts, including market capitalization and enterprise value
- Financial accounting fundamentals, with a focus on accrual versus cash accounting
- Discounted cash flow modeling, covering assumptions, cash flow projections, sensitivity analysis, and model auditing
- Advanced Excel techniques such as Data Validation, CHOOSE, Data Tables, and Goal Seek
- Leveraged buyout modeling and valuation fundamentals
- Real company financial analysis using practical data
- Structuring financial models and building clear, reliable projections
- Corporate valuation methods and how to calculate value per share
- Interpreting and evaluating model outputs for accuracy and decision-making
Course Outline
Day I: Advanced Excel for Financial Modeling
Advanced techniques to Expedite Workflow
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Efficient formula writing
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Formula & model auditing
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Advanced cell locking
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Hot Keys to work without the mouse
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Windows & work with multiple applications
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Go To Special
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Paste Special
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Project #1: Revenue build-up by store count and same store sales growth
Advanced Analytical Tools & Sensitivity Analysis
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Goal Seek
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Data Tables
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Scenario Manager
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Project #2: Cash flow modeling & sensitivity analysis
Database Functions for Finance
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Advanced SUMIFS
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VLOOKUP-MATCH
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INDEX-MATCH
Functions for Financial Modeling
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Financial functions
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Date functions
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Nested IF statements
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IF Statements with AND/OR
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CHOOSE function
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Weighted average calculations
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IFERROR
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Project #3: Loan amortization model
Day II: Intro to Corporate Finance, Accounting, & Modeling
Intro to Corporate Finance
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Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
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How are PV and IRR used in financial modeling?
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How companies raise capital through debt and equity issuances
Enterprise value
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Stocks, dividend yields, trading terminology, and valuation metrics
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Market Capitalization: Calculate the market cap for public companies
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Shares outstanding: How does share count change over time?
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Enterprise Value: Calculate the enterprise value for public companies
Financial Accounting & Statement Analysis
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Cash vs. accrual accounting
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Assets = Liabilities + Shareholder's Equity
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Annual and quarterly filings, and press releases
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Income Statement: Analyze line items on an income statement; calculate growth rates, and TTM
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Balance Sheet: Review assets, liabilities and shareholder's equity
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Cash Flow Statement: Analyze a public company cash flow statement
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Working Capital: Calculate and understand working capital
Integrated Financial Modeling
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Calculate historical ratios for revenue growth, margins, and working capital
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Project cash flows based on historical metrics
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Create debt, equity, and working capital supporting schedules
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Review how financial statements tie together and balance the model
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Integrate the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement in Excel
Intro to DCF Modeling
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Calculate unlevered free cash flow from the integrated model
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Discount cash flows using the WACC
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Derive a share price from total company value
Sensitivity Analysis
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Use Data Tables to sensitize the model's key inputs
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Conditional Format with formulas to highlight cells that meet certain criteria
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Calculate the revenue growth required to hit a certain share price
Intro to LBO Modeling
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Review Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs) basics
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Create a simple LBO model
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Calculate the IRR and Equity Multiple
Day III: In-depth Financial Modeling & Valuation
Company Analysis
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Discuss the business model and value drivers of a public restaurant company
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Capital Structure: Calculate the total enterprise value and build a capital structure table
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Historical Financials: Populate the historical financials
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Ratios: Calculate the financial ratios
Financial projections
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Create financial projections for revenues
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Create financial projections for expenses
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Create projections for the working capital items
Terminal Value
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Estimate the company's terminal value using the Gordon Growth Model
Discounting Cash Flows
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Use CAPM to estimate the company's cost of equity
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Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
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Discount future cash flows with the midpoint convention
Corporate Valuation
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Calculate the diluted shares outstanding using the treasury stock method
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Derive a value per share from total enterprise value
Final Analysis & Reasonability Testing
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Where does our model need additional analysis?
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How does our value per share compare to the current price?
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How do our financial projections compare to management's and the analyst community
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Analyze the output and determine reasonability of the model and assumptions
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What areas or assumptions require additional research?
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What assumptions drive the valuation and how would changes impact our thesis
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Should we invest in the stock at current prices?
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
