Advanced modelling week (digital) - Boost your advanced financial modelling
With four stand-alone digital modelling workshops, you can mix and match to fill gaps in your skill set.
These 3-hour sessions are tailored to enhance your understanding of key financial structuring concepts and their practical applications in financial models / transactions.
Session 1: Master financial modelling of shareholder loans and cash sweeps
2 February, 11:00 - 14:00 JST
- Expand your modelling toolkit with shareholder loans during the construction phase and learn how to update financial statements and calculations for project and equity returns
- Explore cash sweep calculation to forecast interest and principal repayment to give you the ability to fully evaluate downside scenarios for credit
- Learn about topics around shareholder loans, including withholding tax, thin capitalisation rules, and structures to avoid trapped cash
Session 2: Expand debt modelling with Mezzanine and Subordinated loans
3 February, 11:00 - 14:00 JST
- For a full toolbox in debt modelling, you need to master mezzanine and subordinated loans, and the associated flow on impact to financial statements and returns calculations
- Learn how to analyse credit ratios with both sculpted and cash sweep repayment
- Explore how and when subordinated facilities may be required and how to add multiple tranches to reflect varying levels of repayment priorities
Session 3: Manage multiple currencies with robust FX modelling
4 February, 11:00 - 14:00 JST
- Understand how to manage cashflows in different currencies, like construction, revenue, and debt with dynamic financial modelling techniques
- Learn how to update the financial model to consider foreign exchange for both construction spend and drawn debt, with relevant flow on impact to financial statements
- Develop an understanding relating to the impact of periodic movements in exchange rates to the balance sheet through the translation reserve account
Session 4: Analyse annual dividend calculations in a monthly / quarterly model
5 February, 11:00 - 14:00 JST
- Learn how to analyse and structure annual metrics, in a monthly or quarterly model
- Applications demonstrated for trailing and forward looking DSCR, in addition to the Debt to EBITDA ratio
- Examples of how to structure the model for annual release of cash to equity based on (annual) terms
- Discussion around net asset test as an additional sizing mechanism to calculate cash distributions