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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-31
Financial Modelling and Business Planning
For: Financial analysts, account managers, management controllers, business start-up advisers and project promoters who build financial forecasts.
Learning outcomes
- Build a consistent forecast financial model from a business plan.
- Measure the sensitivity of a model's results to the assumptions used.
- Justify the assumptions of a financial model to a decision-maker.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | From business plan to financial model: model architecture and key assumptions; hands-on computer work in a virtual lab. |
| Week 2 | Links between forecast statements: consistency of activity, income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts. |
| Week 3 | Scenarios and sensitivity: varying key assumptions and interpreting the results. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: forecast financial model of a fictitious company, with scenarios and a note justifying the assumptions. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): forecast financial model of a fictitious company, with scenarios and a note justifying the assumptions; online knowledge-check quiz (30%).
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Checking and Documenting a Financial Model
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-31C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Consistency checks on a financial model.
- Documenting a model before handing it over to a decision-maker or an assessor.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Experience using a spreadsheet and of the basics of financial analysis, assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Financial Engineering, within a period set by the certificate regulations.