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B5: Oil & Gas Financial Modelling

Course Length: 3 days

Financial Modelling for oil & gas companies including project evaluation and finance.

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What you get From this Course

  • An excellent working knowledge of the most useful functions in Excel for financial modelling in the oil & gas industry.
  • A sound understanding of oil & gas financial modelling and project evaluation concepts.
  • Experience in designing solutions to real-world financial modelling challenges.

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Agenda Highlights

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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 project evaluations. In this, participants improve their mastery of project evaluation principles and concepts, and then see how to apply these in practical applications.

Finally, the course describes how to both detect and prevent errors from occurring.

Part 1: Financial Modelling Principles & Practices

Introduction to Financial Modelling
- What is a model?
- Spreadsheet models
- Types of oil & gas sector models

Principles of Financial Modelling
- Steps in model building
- Best practice guidelines and spreadsheet modelling standards
- Designing for flexibility and scalability
- Designing for consistency
- Designing for usability and functionality
- Designing checks and balances
- Using VBA in financial models

Part 2: Applications of Financial Modelling

Principles of Risk and Return
- Volatility
- Capital Structures
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Cost of Equity Capital

Project Evaluation: Theory and Application
- Recap of oil and gas accounting principles
- Role of project evaluation
- Approaches to project evaluation
- Free cash flow
- Forecasting future performance
- Capital expenditure modelling
- Modelling uncertainty
- Discounted cash flow modelling
- Sensitivity analysis and an introduction to Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic modelling
- Alternative project evaluation methodologies such as real options
- Interpreting results

Part 3: Control of Financial Models

Financial Model Auditing/Review
- Why audit?
- Excel's auditing tools
- Automated testing tools: role, purpose and limitations, demonstration
- Model documentation

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Who Should Attend?

  • Business & Finance Analysts
  • Finance Managers
  • Investment Managers
  • Investment Analysts
  • CFO's
  • Strategic Planning Analysts
  • Financial Modellers
  • Business Development Analysts
  • Investment & Corporate Bankers
  • Corporate Finance Managers
  • Finance Professionals
  • Accountants

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Facilitator: Jeff Robson

Jeff Robson

Masters (Applied Finance) - Current, BCom (Accounting & Information Systems), CISA, MAICD, AFAIM, A Fin, MS Excel Expert

Jeff Robson is the Principal and Founding Director of Access Analytic, a specialist consultancy that specialises in financial modelling, forecasting, valuation, model auditing, and management reporting for clients throughout the world.

He is skilled in the development and maintenance of analytical tools and financial models for middle-market companies to large corporates, at all levels of complexity, in both domestic and international settings.

He has worked extensively with Chevron plus a variety of other producers and explorers over many years. Other clients include: ENI, Petronas, and Strike Oil.

He provides training in financial modelling for companies throughout the Asia Pacific and Middle-Eastern regions.

Before Access Analytic, Jeff spent 6 years working in the Corporate and IT Consulting divisions of a large, multi-national Chartered Accounting firm.

Jeff is the author of a number of white papers on financial modelling on subjects such as Financial Modelling Best Practices and Financial Model Auditing. Earlier in his career, he spent five years in banking and finance.

Highlights from his oil and gas experience include:

- Development of economic models to assist Decision Analysts modelling a wide range of scenarios for major Chevron assets.

- Auditing and further development of 20-year models developed by Chevron’s Strategic Planning Division for their North West Shelf assets.

- Development of business plan and budgeting models for Chevron’s North West Shelf assets.

- Development of cash flow and taxation models for Chevron’s Australasian Business Unit.

- Consulting on Sarbanes Oxley spreadsheet remediation and risk assessment.

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Benefits & Inclusions

Practical: Jeff Robson is a highly experienced facilitator who actively and regularly consults to clients also.
Applicable: apply what you learn to your job to further your career.
Hands-on: the course is designed to provide maximum hands-on experience.
Passionate: Jeff Robson loves this subject!
Clear: we specialise in translating complex subjects into concepts that are easy to understand.
On-going help: you can always e-mail the facilitator.
CD: includes worked examples, suggested solutions, reference materials, and a large variety of templates that can be immediately applied to kick-start your projects.
Comprehensive course notes.
Networking: meet industry peers and hear how they approach this subject.
Small groups: seats are strictly limited to ensure maximum interaction with the facilitator.
Certificate of completion.
... and much more!

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Dates & Locations

Book for Open Sessions of
"Oil & Gas Financial Modelling"

Book one or more staff to attend an open session of this course:

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4-6 Oct 10 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4 Oct 10 9:00 AM USD POA Click

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Register/Enquiries

Online: click any link above to use our secure online registration
Phone: call +61 8 6210 8500 & speak to our facilitators (GMT+8)
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Clients who have 3-4 or more people interested in this course normally prefer to run this course on an in-house basis in their offices.

We can bring all the equipment for up to 8 people so all you need is a room!

Benefits

  • Flexibility: we can combine content from multiple courses to create a custom course just for you, add-on a workshop or some mentoring sessions then run everything at the times that suit you.
  • Timing options: if you're in Perth, we can split courses into half or single days and schedule these at times to suit you
  • No hidden extras: our fixed fee includes all materials and equipment costs for up to 10 participants
  • Cost effective: no extra fees for extra participants (maximum of 8 per session)

Optional Workshop Add-on

A Workshop is a half or full-day group session where participants bring along their Excel models to gain help, ideas and suggestions on how their models could be improved.

Clients often book a Workshop in addition to the standard training course since the Workshop provides a fantastic way for participants to:
- apply and reinforce the knowledge and principles from the course
- gain immediate productivity benefits in their Excel models
- better understand the models that are used in their office

For all these reasons, clients booking workshops gain a far greater return on their training investment.

Cost: AUD3,000 (full day), or AUD1,600(half-day)

To gain all these great benefits, just book your workshop when arranging your course.

In-house Course Fees

  Recommended Add-ons
Location Fee per Day 1 Mentor Session 6 Mentor Sessions
Perth metropolitan area AUD3,000 AUD400/person AUD2,160/person
Other Australia AUD3,500 AUD400/person AUD2,160/person
Overseas AUD4,000 AUD400/person AUD2,160/person

Notes:
- Prices exclude GST
- Fees are per day, NOT per participant
- A 10% discount applies when booking 5+ full days of training
- Fees include all disbursements
- Many courses can also be split into half-days (please enquire)
- Fees for locations outside of Perth do not include equipment

Call Jeff Robson on +61 8 6210 8500 to discuss your requirements.

Bundled Course & Mentoring

Mentoring sessions are 2-hour, individual, one-on-one sessions with the facilitator where participants use their own files and work on any issue they choose.

Training in this manner allows participants to reinforce the principles they learned on the course by applying them to real-life situations and get personalised assistance in private with anything they'd like to discuss. This ensures a deeper understanding and therefore a much longer-lasting benefit by bridging the gap between what was learned on the course and what happens in real-life.

As a further benefit, it also provides an immediate payoff by improving and enhancing participants' productivity.

Mentoring Details

Booking

To take advantage of the bundled mentoring options, just discuss this when booking your course and we'll arrange everything.

Call Jeff Robson on +61 8 6210 8500 to discuss your requirements.

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