Finance Modelling for Natural Resources Projects

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4 day in person
8 half days online

Learn and apply best practice approaches for building accurate, robust financial models for an oil, gas or mining project. Working step by step through a case study with our expert tutors supporting you, you’ll be ready to tackle the distinct modelling challenges of natural resources projects you’ll face back in the workplace.

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Course Overview

What to Expect

Construct a robust project finance model from scratch and use it to assess the feasibility of a project.

This course is aimed at financial analysts seeking a best practice approach to building a project finance model. Students will construct a model to perform a discounted cash flow analysis for the investment decision, and explore the relevant sensitivities, to introduce an overall approach to building models. As well as a number of fundamental techniques and concepts which will prove invaluable in future modelling assignments.

Suitable for

Who is this course suitable for?

Analysts
Investment specialists

Learning Outcomes

What are the learning outcomes?

Build a flexible and robust financial model for oil and gas from a blank Excel sheet
Create project financial statements by building a 3-statement cash flow forecast
Run detailed sensitivity analysis to understand how your project reacts to fluctuating prices
Assess the financial performance of oil & gas projects