Financial Modelling for entrepreneurs

Learn to develop a practical financial model for your project in just over an hour, with no prior accounting knowledge necessary.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about helping you build a solid financial model for your new idea, even if you’re not a numbers whiz! In just over an hour, you’ll learn to identify costs, estimate revenues, and create a financial plan using simple tools and real-world scenarios.

Key Points

  • Learn the basics of financial modeling without needing a business background.
  • Identify and categorize costs: Investment, Fixed Cost, Variable Cost.
  • Estimate revenues and calculate profit/loss.
  • Understand how to determine your break-even point.
  • Create a simple 3-year financial plan and test scenarios in Excel.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify different types of costs and how they impact your project.
  • Estimate revenue and understand how to calculate profit and loss.
  • Learn to create a simple financial plan that spans three years.
  • Get hands-on experience with Excel for financial modeling.
  • Understand key concepts like ROI and break-even analysis.

About This Course

Develop your financial model in a simple and effective way

You have a new brilliant idea and you want to see if the numbers make sense?

This course is for you!

No worries you don’t need business or accounting background. This course is more based on common sense than accounting rules.

We will learn:

  • How to differentiate and identify you cost (Investment, Fixed Cost, Variable Cost)?

  • How to estimate your revenues?

  • How to calculate your margin?

  • How to calculate your break-even?

  • How to calculate your profit/loss?

  • How to estimate cash requirement?

  • How to calculate your ROI?

  • How to create a simple 3 year financial plan?

  • How to play around the model using scenarios (in excel)?

This course is short! Because i want my courses to be short. It’s difficult to keep attention and motivation with e-learning. Therefore, I spend a lot of time preparing my courses to convey my message in the most concise (yet precise) way as possible. The whole course is scripted and recorded using green screen and encrusting keynotes with animation to support.

This means that in just a little bit more than one hour, your are good to go.

This course is really practical and I advise you to work on your own case as you through the lectures (the excel file for the examples are provided).

  • Create a financial model for your project

Instructor

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Timmermans Laurent

Laurent Timmermans Laurent is the founder and Managing Director of ATHENASIA working with Business planning, Performance Management and Management Training.He is university lecturer in Hong Kong for management, entrepreneurship and organisation behavior courses. Graduated from the University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) in which he earned a Master of Management (Major Marketing) and a Master in Work Sciences (Organization behavior)....

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4.9 course rating
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Joseph C.
4.0
5 years ago

Course and explanations were great. Very clean and straight-forward model. I was hoping the excel sheet would be a bit more clean and user friendly when converted.

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Ally O.
5.0
7 years ago

Basic for me but well explained

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Faozi O.
3.5
8 years ago

Financial planning and projection made very easy

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Joseph S.
5.0
10 years ago

All I needed to get started with my numbers.

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Ed B.
5.0
10 years ago

Laurent offers here a concise but very understandable course that presents the basic concepts of break-even, variable costs... This course is suitable for every person who doesn't know those concepts and especially for entrepreneurs who want to open a small business.

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Tommy A.
4.0
10 years ago

This is one of those courses that you have to have in your bag when setting up any type of business. Laurent walks you through the fundamental base line for Financial Modeling in a step by step and easy to follow manner. I recommend this one for people who wants a re-cap of their modelling skills or someone who is relativley new to the area!

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Fatih K.
5.0
10 years ago

this is the right course if you're looking for a way to learn the basics of financial modeling, you can't go wrong with Laurent Timmermans courses anyway.

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