Udemy - Start-up financial modeling for non-finance professionals

Description

This course is primarily aimed at start-up entrepreneurs with limited background in finance and accounting. As part of the course you will receive your copy of Feanut Financial Model – a tool that we developed to make it easy to prepare complex financial projections. Over this course you will learn how to use this model to prepare a professional financial plan, including the financial statements, financial ratio analysis, simplified business valuation and scenario analysis with the use of just a couple of input data that even a regular non-finance guy can understand so at the end of the course you will be able to prepare the finacial plan of your start-up business using our Feanut Financial Model.

No specific finance or accounting background is required, and the course is not aimed at teaching you the details of accounting mechanics nor complexities of financial modeling in Excel. The course contains of almost 4 hours of video lectures and as part of the course you will also receive a 90-page model giude.
Who is the target audience?

This course is best for start-up entrepreneurs with limted financial and accounting background who would like to prepare a financial plan for their business and would like to learn something about the financial modeling for start-ups.
This course is not intended to teach details of advanced Excel functions, nor it is an accounting course. It is aimed at those who need to put together financial projections without going deep into the details of financial statements, accounting rules or complex calculations in Excel.

Requirements

You should have a spreadsheet software – a copy of the financial model will be provided as part of the course.
Basic knowledge of MS Excel is required
No particular finance and accounting background is required – however, have a basic understanding of a business plan items – Sales, Cost of sales, Operational Expenses, Personnel, Capital Expenditures, Sources of financing