Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling - Level 1
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
💵 Learn the step-by-step approach to weekly cash flow modeling, helping healthy companies grow and getting troubled companies back on track
Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling - Level 1
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
💵 Learn the step-by-step approach to weekly cash flow modeling, helping healthy companies grow and getting troubled companies back on track
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Course overview
Nothing's more vital than knowing where cash is coming from & where it's going.
It’s vital to understand the finances of your business, the causes of cash bleeding, and remedies for improving working capital.
In this program -- the highest-rated corporate finance course on Maven (tied with Carl Seidman's Advanced Financial and Business Modeling) -- attendees will discover the various causes of cash flow constraints and how to address them, learn the step-by-step process for building a direct approach 13-week cash flow forecast model, and integrate it with a longer-term financial forecast.
This program is geared toward professionals in corporate finance, private equity (PE), financial planning & analysis (FP&A), turnaround and restructuring, and distressed investing.
▫️ They didn't teach this in your MBA.
▫️ They don't teach this at your company.
▫️ They aren't teaching it in public training.
Don't wait for cash flow challenges to arise. The time to learn how to manage them is now.
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📆 COHORT STRUCTURE:
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5 Sessions, 2 hours each
Tuesdays and Fridays, 9am - 11am CDT
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Total Live Commitment: 10.0 hours
Total CPE: 10.0 credits
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October 2025 Cohort:
▪️ Tuesday, Oct 21st
▪️ Friday, Oct 24th
▪️ Tuesday, Oct 28th
▪️ Friday, Oct 31st
▪️ Tuesday, Nov 4th
▪️ Thursday, Nov 7th
Seidman Financial is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.
Seidman Financial is a division of Seidman Global LLC.
Who is this course for
01
Finance and accounting professionals with a responsibility for cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and working capital.
02
Finance and strategy professionals working in management consulting, turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy, M&A, and corporate development.
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CFOs, Directors of Finance, Controllers, business owners, AR/AP analysts and clerks, FP&A analysts.
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Investment professionals working in private equity (PE), venture capital (VC), hedge funds, lender workout groups, and family offices.
Prerequisites
Finance or FP&A Experience (2+ Years)
You should understand budgeting or forecasting basics. It ensures you're ready to apply real-world judgment, not just formulas.
Comfort Working in Excel
You’ll be building real models, so you'll need foundational (not expert) skills to follow along and focus on structure, not just syntax.
Basic Financial Statement Knowledge
You don't need to be an expert in accounting, but should recognize how income, cash flow, and balance sheets connect.
What you’ll get out of this course
Build a robust 13-week cash flow forecast line-by-line and step-by-step that can be implemented immediately for your company or clients.
- Build a short-term cash flow forecast from the ground up, diving into sales, collections, costs, payments
- Understand the nuances of operating expenses and expenditures, accrued expenses, payroll, capex, financing, and all balance sheet roll-forwards.
Guide a real-life company through a turnaround, restructuring, and refinancing
- Dive into the mechanics of model-building and understand operating drivers behind distress and revitalization.
- Determine what's causing cash bleeding, prioritize and offer promising courses of action.
- Challenge yourself with live modeling exercises, flexing business scenarios.
Connect the cash flow forecast models to underlying financial data that can be rolled forward and updated with back-end systems
- Establish formulaic integration with underlying financial data
- Build supporting schedules that connect raw accounting and financial data with the dynamic model.
- Establish recurring processes for efficient cash flow updating, forecasting and reforecasting.
Discover different ways entrepreneurs, portfolio company CFOs, FP&A professionals, management consultants, and business owners manage cash.
- Learn what effective cash management and presentation means for various stakeholders, recognizing that not every user of cash flow models sees them the same way as others.
- Identify and transparently communicate to stakeholders cash flow assumptions that are strongest and weakest.
Master liquidity management for companies in distress and working capital management for companies in a phase of growth
- Understand what liquidity and cash flow management look like for distressed companies.
- Know the warning signs and remedies for strained cash flow.
- Contrast managing cash in distress with optimizing working capital in normal and growing companies.
Adopt best practices and formula techniques for integrating a short-term cash flow forecast into a longer term cash flow model.
- Understand how to aggregate weekly activity into monthly and quarterly financials.
- Discover best practices for coding and classifying dates and line-items so they seamlessly and automatically drive integrated business models.
Ongoing access to the expert who leading management consulting and turnaround/restructuring firms hire to teach their consultants.
- Carl Seidman is the FP&A and turnaround expert that dozens of companies and firms use for their hands-on professional development.
- His forecast models, templates, and processes are used by FP&A teams, Fractional CFOs, FP&A consultants, and turnaround/restructuring firms.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Carl Seidman CPA | Microsoft MVP in a real-time, interactive format.
12 months access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion and CPE
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn. Receive a second certificate verifying your earning of CPE credits.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
Week 1
✨ Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling: LIVE Session (Tues, Oct 21 | 9am CST)✨
Module 1: Structuring the Cash Flow Model - Design and Structure
Module 2: Financial Reports, Statements, and Data Collection
✨ Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling: LIVE Session (Fri, Oct 24 | 9am CST)✨
Module 3: Forecasting Operating Cash Receipts
Week 2
✨ Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling: LIVE Session (Tues, Oct 28 | 9am CST)✨
Module 4: Forecasting Operating Cash Disbursements
✨ Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling: LIVE Session (Fri, Oct 31 | 9am CST)✨
Module 5: Forecasting Non-Operating Cash Disbursements
Week 3
✨ Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling: LIVE Session (Tues, Nov 4 | 9am CST)✨
Module 6: Completing the Cash Flow Forecast and Tying it All Together
🏫 Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling - Office Hours (Fri, Nov 7 | 9am CST) 🏫
Module 7: Advanced Concepts in Cash Flow Forecasting and Liquidity Management
✍️ Capstone Business Case: Develop a Cash Flow Forecasting and Model
Post-course
POST-COURSE: Activities and To-Dos
Other Cash Flow Resources
What students are saying
"Fantastic! Taken multiple courses over 20 years. This was incredibly practical."
-- Prashanth Setty, Independent Management Consultant
Meet Carl, your instructor and guide
Carl Seidman CPA | Microsoft MVP
Carl Seidman CPA | Microsoft MVP
Principal, Seidman Financial | Microsoft MVP
Carl serves as a Fractional CFO, FP&A advisor, and management consultant to entrepreneurial businesses throughout North America and Europe and assists them with strategic financial planning, value enhancement, and revitalization.
He is a Microsoft MVP and one of the preeminent trainers and facilitators in strategic finance and FP&A, with more than 13,000 participants attending his financial training programs, seminars, workshops, and masterminds. More than 130,000 students have taken his LinkedIn Learning courses: Excel for FP&A; Excel Power Tools for FP&A: Power Query and Power Pivot; Presenting Financial Information (Business Storytelling for Finance); Copilot of Excel: AI-Powered FP&A; and Excel: Learning Cash Flow Forecasting.
Notable corporate clients include:
ABM Industries, Accordion, AlixPartners, Allscripts, Bloomberg, Broadridge, Capitol Broadcasting, CHEP, Choice Hotels, CIBC, Cigna, Cox Enterprises, Crawford & Company, Deloitte, Dexcom, Discover, Dominium, Express Scripts, EY, FS Investments, EVRAZ, Genentech, Healthpeak, Heartland Financial, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hostess, IGT, KPMG, Marsh & McLennan, Michelin, NerdWallet, Radisson, Rapid7, Sol Petroleum, Spotify, Triple-S, Telus, Santander, United Technologies (RTX), UBT, Verizon, Walmart, and Workday.
Carl is masterful at making the complex amazingly simple, engaging his audiences, building confidence, and facilitating a welcoming and transformative group experience. His content is rich and relatable, used in financial leadership development programs (FLDPs) at Fortune 500 companies, and is utilized or licensed by 7 of the top global financial training companies.
Carl is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) has earned other professional credentials including the CIRA, CFF, CFE, CGMA, AM (Accredited Member in Business Valuation), CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), Certified Anaplan Model Builder, and was a National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) 40 Under Forty honoree. He holds a BA in finance and economics and an MS in managerial accounting.
He's been where you want to be and does the work you want to do.
Contact: info@seidmanfinancial.com
Career highlights
Founder, Seidman Financial
Adjunct Professor in Data Analytics, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Director, Conway MacKenzie (nka Riveron)
Senior Associate, Dispute Analysis & Investigations, Business Analytics & Strategy, PwC
"Carl does an excellent job balancing theory and practice into one concept. He knows how to read the advice and realize there is a wide range of people with various modeling experience so he can teach to the largest part of the bell curve."
-- Kristian Wosik, Investment Banker
This program is CPE-eligible for up to 9.0 hours of continuing professional education credits.
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-- Amy Zarosinski, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
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-- Henry Spanier, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Medical Research Company
Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling Template
Nothing's more vital than knowing where cash is coming from & where it's going.
Properly managed cash flows ensure healthy liquidity, enabling strategic decisions and investments. Don't let cash shortages disrupt your business whether it's on a trajectory of expansion or stagnant and investing for future growth.
Learn the step-by-step approach to 13-week cash flow modeling, helping healthy companies build and getting troubled companies back on track.
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