Course Facilitator (Faculty):
The course is facilitated by Ashutosh Zawar, who is a
rank-holder Chartered Accountant and a Bachelor of Commerce from
University of Pune, India. He is a Co-Founder & Lead Trainer @
Academy of Financial Training. He has over 9 years of experience across
Investment Banking, Project Finance, Consulting and Training.
Ashutosh has over 1,000 hours of professional training experience.
He looks after the e-learning, multimedia content management at Academy
of Financial Training (AFT). He has been instrumental in launching
AFT's new training programs and innovating curriculum across topics such
as Advanced Financial Modeling, Excel, Banking, Corporate Finance.
Before co-founding AFT, he worked with the Project Finance
team at IDFC, a leading financial services company in the Infrastructure
domain and the Investment Banking team at Morgan Stanley. he has worked
on sectors such as healthcare, education, tourism, telecom and energy.
His work profile included operational and financial modeling, business
appraisal, valuation analysis, drafting of terms and commercial
negotiations.
Duration:
The entire 3 part course takes about 8-10 hours of video-based
learning and 20-30 hours of simultaneous self-practice on MS Excel.
Structure of the Course:
- The course guides candidates to start with a blank
Excel spreadsheet and goes on to build full-fledged forecasts of
Financial statements i.e. Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash flow
Statement
- A real-life case-study of a manufacturing company has been considered for this program
- It
also includes important calculation schedules like Capital Expenditure,
Depreciation, Working Capital, Loan or Debt, Interest, Income Tax, Cash
balancing mechanism.
Why take this Course?
- Hundreds of classroom editions of the program
already executed and ongoing for leading banks, manufacturing companies
and b-schools.
- Course content designed, recorded and edited
by professionals with rich work experience in Investment Banking, Equity
Research, Project Finance and Business Consulting domains at
world-class banks.
- Focus on simplicity, accuracy and efficiency (Building quickly)
- Best practices and common errors to avoid in Financial Modeling covered
- Live support from expert trainers during and after the programs
