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Introduction

This application-driven, hands-on practical 2-day program initially provides delegates with useful Excel tips & tricks to help speed up the building of their models, and then leads them through various financial modelling techniques, using Excel as the tool.

It assumes that delegates are involved in the property sector, have a working background of the property industry and are familiar with commonly used industry terms.

It focuses on the basic nuts & bolts of financial model preparation and structure, and provides the delegate with useful modelling techniques than can be immediately applied in the work place in a real estate environment.

The two days will be spent on demonstrating various techniques, interspersed with short hands-on exercises for certain of the more useful areas to reinforce the examples presented. Participants will build a complete real estate model, from first principles, in various stages over the two days.

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Who Should Attend
  • Financial officers, planners, middle and senior management in the real estate field.
  • Persons involved in the construction of real estate development models.
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Pre Requisite(s)
  • Not essential, but useful - a basic knowledge of company financial statements.
  • Delegates should be familiar with Microsoft Excel (though not necessarily expert in the use thereof, as any relevant Excel function pertinent to an exercise will be discussed prior to tackling the exercise).
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Outcomes

By the end of this course delegates will know how to structure models correctly, and will appreciate the necessity for so doing.

They will have gone through the process of building a real estate model, completing the required sheets and financial statements.

They will understand the interaction between Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow statements in financial models, and the necessity for having them.

They will enhance considerably their knowledge of Excel so far as it pertains to financial models, e.g. they will understand how to perform sensitivity analyses, create scenarios and data tables, etc.

They will also benefit from the discussions and exercises on the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), Net Present Values (NPVs) and Internal Rates of Return (IRR), and will learn the importance of these measurements.

Knowledge gained in setting up "switches" in their models, allowing them to investigate the effect of different alternatives, will be of great value to them.

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Course Content

Day 1

Useful Excel tips & tricks
Protecting & unprotecting ranges in spreadsheets
Creating names for ranges in your spreadsheet
Creating your own formats (e.g. to display millions in thousands)
Logical tests - using IF statements
Structuring your model
Maintaining the integrity of the model
Accumulating data
Date functions
Inflation calculations
Real Estate Development model - overview
  • Exercise - Inflation rates and drawdowns

  • Data tables - preparing a table of results based on changing assumptions
    Data validation techniques - producing drop-down lists, and validating input data
    Creating and comparing scenarios - e.g. Base case, Best case, Worst case
  • Exercise - Valuing using the Capitalisation method


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    Day 2

    Discounted cash flow - NPV & IRR
    Discounted cash flow over unequal periods
  • Exercise - Which of two projects is the one to go for?
  • Exercise - Valuing using DCF

  • Real Estate project model - Overview
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - Setting up the input variables

  • Trunc and Int
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - Setting up the schedules

  • Extracting positive & negative balances
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - The financial statements

  • Match
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - Calculating the key results

  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - inserting a sensitivity table and a data table
  • Exercise - Real Estate project model - Setting up the scenarios

  • Calculating the loan limit - a "quick & dirty" model
    The Choose function
  • Optional exercise - setting "switches" and choosing between alternatives

  • Appendix 1 - Uses of the Ctrl key in Excel
    Appendix 2 - Equivalents in Excel 2003
    Appendix 3 - Equivalents in Excel 2007

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