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Training

Recent Feedback:

• "Fantastic, well presented" Steve Van Nierop, BDO Kendalls
• "Great range, clear teaching ... I was very impressed!" Lyn Shepherd, Cardno BSD
• "Neale [the trainer] was excellent, vibrant & knowledgeable” Alan Raven, Maunsell
• "Very practical, time-saving, productive"
• "Very informative, very easy to understand" Sue Falconer
• "I have been able to devise a few shortcuts in my job after learning them in the session, so work is getting done a lot faster" Carmel Bauman, Midland Brick

Our Current Courses

Financial Modelling and Company Valuation

(hosted by Ethan Hathaway)
4-day Course USD4,998

(Incl optional 1 day Advanced Excel Workshop)

This course provides a sound understanding of both the principles of financial modelling and the practical application of these to real-world situations through the use of spreadsheets.

The course then builds upon the financial modelling principles and practices learned to apply these to company valuations. In this, you will improve your mastery of company valuation principles and concepts, and then see how to apply these in practical applications.

Financial Modelling, Forecasting, Valuation and Capital Structure

(hosted by GlobeCon)
3-day Course $POA

This program provides participants the core skills required for valuation and modeling in a sophisticated financial institution. The program focuses on middle-market bankers and client advisors to ensure they are entirely familiar with (a) forecasting and modeling their client's future financial performance and (b) establishing a market-oriented valuation for the business.

Participants need not have principal responsibility for financial forecasting and valuation; however this program enables each person to become fully conversant with financial models.

High-Powered Excel Course for Accounting & Finance Professionals
Full-day Course $795 (Earlybird: $700)

Come and be trained by Neale Blackwood, CPA Magazine’s “Mr Excel Yourself” and resident spreadsheet guru!

This hands-on course goes far beyond simply explaining Excel's features and functions - you'll learn how to apply these to get more done and produce reliable, consistent, maintainable, user-friendly results.

You'll literally gain the knowledge and skills you can use in your work every day to transform your Excel work and make decisions with confidence.

Included:

• Valuable, time-saving techniques to reduce re-keying of data and increase automation.
• Key things every budget needs to make it easy to maintain and easy to use.
• The essential functions used by experts to increase consistency and reduce data entry.
• Clever range name techniques that improve reliability and readability.
• Best practices for producing flexible and reliable lookups.

• Learn Excel's hidden shortcuts to many common tasks that can save you hours of time every day.
• Techniques to make maintenance easier and make your models accurate, reliable and robust.
• Powerful data analysis and visualisation techniques to identify trends and anomalies.
• How and when to apply macros that will speed up the creation of your models.

and ...

Question and answer time with Neale so you can get answers to all those questions that have been bugging you! ... plus many many more ways to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration!

Improve your Excel Productivity
Half-day Course $395 (Earlybird: $350)

Come and be trained by Neale Blackwood, CPA Magazine’s “Mr Excel Yourself” and resident spreadsheet guru!

In this short course, you'll learn some of Excel's hidden, yet incredibly useful shortcuts that can literally save you hours of time and frustration!

Included:

• Learn the hidden productivity tools that are used by Excel Experts to get more done in the same time.
• Make your charts fly: creating new charts, improving existing ones, and making them all look superb!
• Clever range name techniques that improve reliability and readability.
• Best practices in formulas and formatting that help improve both speed and accuracy.
• Ways to quickly navigate large spreadsheets and find what you need to know.
• Ways to speed up data entry.

and ...

Question and answer time with Neale so you can get answers to all those questions that have been bugging you! ... plus many many more ways to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration!

Other Courses Available

We also provide specialist training courses in areas such as:

• VBA for Accounting & Finance Professionals
• Financial Modelling and Company Valuation
• Intermediate Excel
• Advanced Excel
• Spreadsheet Professional

In House Option

Courses can also be provided at your premises for as many participants as you'd like, complete with all equipment, notes, CD etc. 

This is particularly cost effective where you have 4 or more people doing the same course.

Customised Courses

We're happy to provide a proposal for developing customised courses that are tailored to your specific needs.

International Partners

We partner with a number of International training companies to provide our specialist training expertise for companies based in Hong Kong, Singapore and USA.

Excel Coaching

A service many clients find useful is for one of our consultants to come to your premises on a regular basis and work with particular staff on a one-on-one basis to observe how you are using Excel, what problems and issues you're facing, and provide specific training and coaching to improve efficiency.

Because the sessions are short and are tailored for a specific individual, the benefits are often far greater than those achieved in classroom-style training.

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