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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Financial Forecasting and Valuation Techniques

SMP807 · Entrepreneurship and Innovation — Week 9 of 16

CourseSMP807
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Financial Forecasting and Valuation Techniques

  1. Dynamic cash flow modelling
  2. Scenario-based revenue projections
  3. Cost-volume-profit analytics
  4. Capital expenditure and burn rate estimation
  5. Session 30: Valuation - Cash Flows & Discount Rates
  6. Free cash flow and valuation - CIMA F3 lecture
  7. 706 | Master Your Financial Template: From Revenue to Profit – Social Entrepreneurship Course

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Produce business planning forecasts using financial techniques.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: produce business planning forecasts using financial techniques.

Study materials

Videos

  • Session 30: Valuation - Cash Flows & Discount Rates · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 17 min · for registered students
  • Free cash flow and valuation - CIMA F3 lecture · YouTube · OpenTuition · 15 min · for registered students
  • 706 | Master Your Financial Template: From Revenue to Profit – Social Entrepreneurship Course · YouTube · YaleCourses · 14 min · for registered students
  • Session 25: Valuation 101 · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 84 min · for registered students
  • Session 4: DCF Structure and Discount Rate First Steps · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 79 min · for registered students
  • Session 31: Cash Flows & Growth Rates · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 15 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 18: Financial Forecasting · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 537–566 · for registered students
  • MIT 15.414 Financial Management, lecture notes: Firm Valuation (1) · PDF · Other, slides · for registered students
  • Entrepreneurship, ch. 9.4: Start-up financial statements and cash flow projections · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 334–346 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Enterprise Typologies and Global Ecosystems
  • Week 2: Entrepreneurial Profiling and Competency Evaluation
  • Week 3: Systemic Creativity and Innovation Ecosystems
  • Week 4: Appraisal of Innovative Management Concepts
  • Week 5: Leading Transformational Change and Innovation
  • Week 6: Venture Opportunity Identification and Analysis
  • Week 7: Operational and Market Feasibility Testing
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Financial Forecasting and Valuation Techniques
  • Week 10: Strategic Business Plan Synthesis
  • Week 11: Strategic Control and Governance Mechanisms
  • Week 12: Applying Entrepreneurship and Innovation in practice: case …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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