Retail Store Development Project Modeling

Description

Many professionals build models to assess the impact and feasibility of undertaking new projects. This course focuses on the skills required to design and create an interactive financial model to help decide whether a retail store should open or develop a new location. The course material includes model design, logic, construction, financial concepts and accounting treatment. Various intermediate Excel tools along with helpful keyboard shortcuts will also be covered throughout the day.

Prerequisites

Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Excel and the retail sector prior to taking this course.

Time

8 hours

Learning Topics

Design and Structure a Financial Model

Design a clear and logical financial model
Discuss the need for a model to serve as a marketing tool
Create clearly defined inputs and assumptions sections
Connect strings of data to create assumptions and footnotes

Build Scenarios and Financial Forecasts

Use switches to create effective scenarios and value drivers
Forecast and build-up the project’s revenues and expenses
Develop a cash flow projection for the project
Incorporate financial and arithmetic functions
Use logical functions to create complex formulas
Incorporate flexibility to analyze various types of various ownership and financing structures

Evaluate the Project

Discuss various methodologies for evaluating a project
Incorporate a schedule to evaluate the project’s returns
Build a strong summary page to display the results
Use various tools to sensitize the project’s returns
Conditionally format output tables to highlight specified results
Set up print ranges to optimize the appearance of printed output