What financial modelling skills should I expect to practise in a corporate finance course?
You may practise building and auditing spreadsheet models, linking income statements, balance sheets and cash-flow statements, forecasting performance, and analysing assumptions. Coursework may also cover discounted-cash-flow valuation, comparable-company analysis, capital budgeting, scenario and sensitivity analysis, financing decisions, and presenting model outputs clearly.
Key points
- Skills may include spreadsheet formulas, model structure, error checks, documentation and making assumptions transparent.
- You may learn to assess investment projects, value businesses or securities, and test how results change under different conditions.
- Some courses may include mergers and acquisitions, financial risk, or project-finance modelling, depending on the syllabus.
Things to check
- The balance between technical spreadsheet work, valuation and corporate-finance theory varies by course, so check the module description and assessment details.