AML Academy

The contributions of accountants and finance managers to business corporate objectives have long been underappreciated, undervalued, and unrewarded. The reason is not mainly associated with inability to quantify the deliverable of the finance function but chiefly because accountants have not been able to appropriately provide valuable insights to support business decisions. The finance team usually have virtually unrestricted access to business operating and financial data but chose to only give historical accounting information which at best is useful for compliance with regulation rather for supporting business corporate objectives; the main reason for this is the failure of regular accountants to understand the business of the entity, collect relevant data and utilize tools of analysis to obtain valuable insights necessary to support management decisions. Today’s finance personnel and other key managers are expected to lead in the provision of solution to entity’s business challenges through deep understanding of the entity’s business. The financial and other key functional area data of the entity provide invaluable insights into company’s operation and business; its history and future. The ability to create and understand models is one of the valued skills in business and finance today that empowers the personnel gather, analyse and manipulate business data for the purpose of providing business solutions. Our financial modelling training is designed to teach you the combination of skills required to build financial models. It will lead you through the practical session of creating a financial planning and analysis model; modelling 3 key components of financial statements with the right financial analysis tools. Beyond the Financial Planning and Analysis model, which is one out of almost infinite possibilities of financial modelling skill, this training will give participants the fundamental principles and guidance to developing any model on their own.