Handbook

Financial Modelling intends to make managers more confident and effective users of financial models, helping them to better understand and communicate the practical value of financial models, and to build this literacy for their future work. Key to this is a critical pedagogical approach which develops and refines students’ high-level critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills, alongside providing them with a set of practical tools and techniques to help them make effective judgments about a business’s current financial situation and future performance based on best practice financial modelling principles.

Students learn to review and critique financial models against best practice principles, analysing and breaking down complex problems into simple conceptual models. They also learn how to apply the tools and techniques of financial modelling to the analysis of real-world business problems and case studies. Finally, they learn to design and construct their own financial models that adhere to best practice principles, evaluating and applying pertinent spread-sheeting techniques to solve complex problems.