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FINANCIAL MODELING Training

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING ANY OF THESE CHALLENGES?
Want to learn how to use practical financial management tools to improve everyday business decisions?
Would like to know day-to-day, rather than month-to-month or year-to-year, how your company is performing?
Would like to learn how financial management tools are applied for better financial control?
Wish your business decisions could be made knowing more about potential bottom line impact?
Looking for a method to compare the bottom line benefits of one decision over another?

…If the answer is "Yes," then MMEC's Financial Modeling training may be what you need.

COURSE INFORMATION
PREREQUISITE: Basic math skills required. Basic understanding of accounting basics helpful.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will go beyond traditional accounting and cash flow models to explore financial models with real-time data for more timely, proactive and accurate decision-making. The course will focus on simple and manageable models based on direct cause and effect relationships. It will allow quick scenario evaluation and decisions. The course will provide detailed introductions to various financial models including hourly break-even analysis, plant P&L, shop load analysis, theory of constraints, most valuable customer and activity based costing. Specific examples illustrating these models in action will serve to further understanding of their application and benefit.

Calculate minimum hourly rate you can charge or bid out for your services in order to break even.
Use a plant P&L to proactively manage daily/weekly throughput and labor for profit.
Differentiate between an income statement and a plant P&L and use them appropriately within your organization.
Understand your shop's fixed costs and how to load the shop with sufficient jobs to make a profit.
Focus efforts on the critical operation bottlenecks (constraints) in order to maximize throughput.
Analyze and focus on most valuable customers.
Gain a better handle on product, customer and supplier costs by understanding the activity costs associated with each.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE: Company owners and business/financial managers.

COURSE LENGTH & FORMAT: 8 Hours; classroom presentation, case studies, discussion, and Q&A.

CLASS SIZE GUIDELINES:
Public Event: 10 minimum
Private Company Event: Variable (depending on internal demand)

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