To be successful, a business needs reliable and accurate business forecasting. Ambitious Minds trains people in the most efficient and effective system available, FAST Business Forecasting.
Revolutionise your spreadsheets in one day
FAST Business Forecasting is a one-day classroom-based course for business people who need to prepare, amend or analyse Excel-based forecasts. The course provides:
- An introduction to the building blocks of effective, flexible and transparent business forecasting using MS Excel
- Practical and hands on: work with simple templates and real world case studies
- Expert tuition from experienced instructors
- Based on the FAST standard: work with a set of design standards that transform how you work with MS Excel
Who should attend?
Anyone who who has to regularly create, update or review spreadsheets will benefit from this course, from the corporate sector to large public sector organisations to small businesses and would-be entrepreneurs needing to produce reliable forecasts to secure funding.
For those with limited experience of working with spreadsheets in a forecasting context, it provides a solid introduction to best practice using FAST design standards. For more experienced forecasters, it transforms the way in which MS Excel may be used to achieve business objectives.
Outline
The course introduces participants to the building blocks of best practice spreadsheet design and construction. Participants will work with FAST design standards to transform their approach, style and productivity. Keystroke shortcuts will improve speed and accuracy. By the end of the course, participants will have built a number of discrete business forecasts based on real world scenarios.
Class sessions
- Building up output sheets and linking them to calculations
- Introducing conceptual modelling: answering “how much?” and “when?”
- Case study 1
- Working with revenue forecasts
- Inflation and escalation
- Case study 2
- Working capital
- Case study 3
- Financing solutions
- Analysis, interpretation and “what if?”
Outcome
Delegates will reap the benefits of learning to work collaboratively, to the same standard and with improved effectiveness and productivity. They will become skilled at all the techniques that make business and financial forecasting a swift, reliable and rigorous process.
Course details:
Duration: 1 day
Fee: £399 + VAT
Location: Ambitious Minds, 10-12 Pall Mall, Liverpool, L3 6AL
Liverpool city centre (excellent public transport links and plentiful car parking nearby)
Date(s): Wednesday 21st March 2012 / Tuesday 27th March 2012