Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling - Level 1
4.9 (69)
8 Days
·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
4.9 (69)
8 Days
·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 -- 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.
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.
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📆 DECEMBER 2024 COHORT:
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2 Sessions, 4.5 hours each
9 am - 1:30 pm CDT
- Monday, December 9
- Monday, December 16
- TBD: Optional Office Hours
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Total Live Commitment: 9.0 hours
Total CPE: 9.0 credits
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Who is this course for
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Finance and accounting professionals with a responsibility for cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and working capital.
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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.
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.
This course includes
2 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
35 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
2 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling - Level 1
Course syllabus
Week 1
Dec
9
✨ Session 1: Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling ✨
Module 1: Structuring the Cash Flow Model - Design and Structure
Module 2: Financial Reports, Statements, and Data Collection
Module 3: Forecasting Operating Cash Receipts
Week 2
Dec
16
✨ Session 2: Cash Flow Forecasting and Modeling ✨
Module 4: Forecasting Operating Cash Disbursements
Module 5: Forecasting Non-Operating Cash Disbursements
Module 6: Completing the Cash Flow Forecast and Tying it All Together
Module 7: Advanced Concepts in Cash Flow Forecasting and Liquidity Management
Post-course
POST-COURSE: Activities and To-Dos
Other Cash Flow Resources
Bonus
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Meet Carl, your instructor and guide
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. Notable clients include:
ABM Industries, Accordion, AlixPartners, Allscripts, Broadridge, 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 serves as an Adjunct Professor in data analytics at the Jones School of Business at Rice University. He 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
This program is CPE-eligible for up to 9.0 hours of continuing professional education credits.
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Course schedule
4.5 hours per session
Session 1: 4.5 hours + office hours
9:00am - 1:30pm CST
Session 2: 4.5 hours + office hours
9:00am - 1:30pm CST
Session 3: Office hours
Date and time as agreed upon
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