Forecasting with Excel's Powerful Sensitivity Tools (Completed)

Attend this briefing and demonstration on Excel to unleash its powerful sensitivity tools. Get the full power out of your financial models. Improve the design of your models to take advantage of these tools in just 2 hours.

Who Should Attend
Financial Analysts, Business Analysts, Information Reporting Officers, Tax Managers, Compliance Officers, Compliance Managers, CFOs, Controllers, Accounting Managers, Auditors, Risk Managers

Topics Covered

• Attend this briefing and demonstration on Excel to unleash its powerful sensitivity tools. Get the full power out of your financial models. Improve the design of your models to take advantage of these tools in just 2 hours
• Using Goal Seek to discover how much a single variable must move to reach a desired outcome
• Using Data Tables with one or two-inputs to deliver an array of outcomes from your model in just seconds
• Using Scenario Manager to store selected groupings of inputs and resulting outcomes
• Use Scenario Manager to consolidate all ”versions” of your model into one file
• Use the standard Scenario Summary to compare your Scenarios automatically
• Expand your skills in financial modeling to a level you never dreamed of in just 90 minutes!
• Bonus – download a copy of the demo model along and the answer key to our demonstration!

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the 20 rules of effective model design
• Identify best practices for designing efficient forecasting models and how to apply scroll bars, goal seek, data tables, and scenario manager to your models.
• Identify how to apply scroll bars, goal seek, data tables, and scenario manager to your models
• Utilize Data Tables with one or two-inputs to deliver an array of outcomes from your model

Level
Intermediate

Instructional Method
Group: Internet-based

NASBA Field of Study
Computer Software & Applications (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
Basic Understanding of Excel Tools

Advance Preparation
None