Business modeling and performance assessment - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 6, 2023.

Ph.D., Staff consultant to the Moscow Government on optimization of business processes and development of IT infrastructure.

MBA teacher at Russian School of Management. Expert in financial management, budgeting and analytics. Implemented more than 100 consulting projects.

Modeling in business: business and financial models
• Business plan/business model.

Business analysis: key users, questions, reporting forms. Profit and efficiency analysis
• Business analysis: key users, questions, reporting forms. Profit and efficiency analysis
• Cash flow and efficiency analysis
• Types of analysis and their applicability. Key indicators of profitability and profitability
• Indicators used to analyze the market, customers and business processes
• Personnel analysis. Analysis of the Cost-Volume-Profit relationship (C-V-P analysis)

Formation of the company's financial model
• Basic principles of constructing a financial model.
• Financial model, budget, investment plan - practical understanding and application.
• Model – standard structure, sequence of “assembly”.
• Risk and return.
• How important are exceptions to the rules (adaptation of standard forms of financial reporting, introduction of elements of management accounting)?
• Management sections of the model, depth of detail.
• How to solve the problem of investor motivation (dividends, “risk payment”, etc.) and reflect this in the model?
• What risks should be taken into account?
• Differences in the financial structure of the models.
• Use of internal and external analysis tools.
• Practical construction of a financial model.
• Workshop: “Calculation of financial flow according to several proposed options.”
• Testing the generated financial model and generating proposals for making management decisions.
• Dynamic model (assessment of the impact of changes in various parameters on the implementation of the business plan) – demonstration of various development scenarios.
• Product profitability (product picture excluding operating expenses).
• Profit and liquidity (“tuning” the model, smoothing cash gaps) – demonstration with an example.
• Business plan and business process (what is necessary for the financial model to work).

Justification and evaluation of investment projects
• Introduction to investment analysis.
• Project time frame.
• Time value of money.
• Return on investment, determination of the project discount rate.
• Procedure for evaluating investment initiatives.
• Strategic rationale for the project.
• Project implementation plan as the basis of the financial model.
• Indicators of economic efficiency of the project.
• Sources of financing and their impact on project performance.
• Analysis of project risks, making decisions on investments taking into account risks.