2024/2025
Building DCF Models in Practice
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is a practical course. Over the course, students will build financial models for capital investment projects ranging from venture companies to project finance. We will study best practice for presenting project budgets, calculating ratios and performance indicators, doing risk analysis. The course will develop financial modelling skills used in the business valuation course, but in contrast in this course we will focus on business factors and drivers fuelling success of a project, and will spend more time on their best account and presentation than on the theory of financial analysis. The course is interactive. Lectures combine a presentation, discussion of reading for the week (often the homework), viewing of a video and discussion. Students should take notes, both on lectures and on the reading, and presentations, with the intention of addressing the key themes of the course. The readings require intensive examination of a broad variety of issues and modes of thought.