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Private Equity: Strategy and Excel Modelling
A 2-day comprehensive and intensive course concentrated on the strategic and financial reasons for private equity transactions.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course delegates will have the skills to develop the optimal financing structure for private equity transactions:

• Value a target company using multiples
• Calculate goodwill using acquisition arithmetic
• Forecast a pro-forma balance sheet by using the most appropriate sources of debt and equity finance
• Build the cashflow and debt & interest schedules into the model
• Calculate exit values and the IRR’s generated by each investor
• Use sensitivity analysis to derive the optimum financing structure taking into account the financial constraints of each investor

Course Level
This is an intermediate course, and delegates must have experience in private equity transactions.
Delegates must be familiar with

• Financial Modelling & Forecasting
• Comparable Company Valuation
• Discounting and Cost of Capital
• Discounted Cashflow Valuation

Teaching Method
This is a practical computer-based modelling course, and will be taught using a combination of formal lectures and excel-based exercises. A case-study is used throughout the course and will form the basis for developing the private equity excel model.

Who Should Attend?
The course is suitable for any Private Equity, Corporate Finance or business professional who wishes to learn how to build a private equity financing model allowing them to make informed investment decisions.

• Private Equity specialists
• Buyout & M&A specialists
• Analysts
• Risk Managers
• Corporate Financiers
• CEO’s & CFO’s
• Lawyers
• Fund Managers
• Accountants

15% Discount for AVCO Members!

Information/Registration:
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