Financial Modelling For Mining Companies

Build and analyze mining financial models for project finance, corporate finance, or private equity.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.9

- How to Structure financial models to tell a complete story of a business from input cost to net profit or retained cash
- Demonstrate knowledge of
- and analyze the main drivers of costs and profitability for a company
- Construct a process flow diagram from input
- to production
- to sale
- and analyze each step of the process flow in terms of its impact on profitability

What you'll learn

How to Structure financial models to tell a complete story of a business from input cost to net profit or retained cash
Demonstrate knowledge of
and analyze the main drivers of costs and profitability for a company
Construct a process flow diagram from input
to production
to sale
and analyze each step of the process flow in terms of its impact on profitability
How to construct a summary sheet
which illustrates all the key information and features of a business
Perform stress testing and downside analysis on models via goal seek and data tables
Construct waterfall diagrams assessing the impact of various factors on the profitability of a company
Excel techniques for data clean up
financial calculations and data summary
Construct key graphs which display multiple pieces of information clearly and coherently
Understand the difference between analysing accounting statements vs a cashflow model from a banker’s perspective
Drilling deep into a business' cost and revenue structure to uncover bottlenecks or weak spots
Determining the optimal capital structure of a company using the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and gearing ratios
How to use a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model to value an investment or company
Calculating the Enterprise Value and Equity Value of a company/project using perpetual growth vs EBITDA multiple
Calculating debt capacity and sculpting debt repayments for a project or company
Gearing and financial covenant ratios

* Requirements

* Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Description

  • How to Structure financial models to tell a complete story of a business from input cost to net profit or retained cash
  • Demonstrate knowledge of, and analyze the main drivers of costs and profitability for a company
  • Construct a process flow diagram from input, to production, to sale, and analyze each step of the process flow in terms of its impact on profitability
  • How to construct a summary sheet, which illustrates all the key information and features of a business
  • Perform stress testing and downside analysis on models via goal seek and data tables
  • Construct waterfall diagrams assessing the impact of various factors on the profitability of a company
  • Excel techniques for data clean up, financial calculations and data summary
  • Construct key graphs which display multiple pieces of information clearly and coherently
  • Understand the difference between analysing accounting statements vs a cashflow model from a banker’s perspective
  • Drilling deep into a business' cost and revenue structure to uncover bottlenecks or weak spots
  • Determining the optimal capital structure of a company using the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and gearing ratios
  • How to use a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model to value an investment or company
  • Calculating the Enterprise Value and Equity Value of a company/project using perpetual growth vs EBITDA multiple
  • Calculating debt capacity and sculpting debt repayments for a project or company
  • Gearing and financial covenant ratios

Course content

11 sections • 53 lectures

Welcome and Model Walkthrough Preview 17:05

Before we start: Why Do We Build Models? Preview 08:24

Introduction and Useful Hotkeys Preview 07:53

Profitability Drivers and Economic Assumptions Preview 05:27

Internal Profitability Drivers Preview 05:37

Building the Model from Scratch Preview 15:03

Process Flow (Putting the Links Together) Preview 05:58

Tax Preview 06:04

Tax Practice Exercise

Practice tax modelling

Working Capital Preview 08:12

Working Capital Practice Exercise

Use the "Working Capital Practice" tab to replicate the calculations in the "Working Capital Solution" tab.

Debt Preview 05:15

Debt Practice Exercise

Let's build a debt sheet, but this time let us try to automate as much of the functionality on the debt sheet as possible.

Accounting Statements Preview 03:15

Cashflow Model Preview 04:53

Graphs - Part 1 Preview 05:24

Graphs - Part 2 Preview 03:04

Graphs - Part 3 Preview 13:15

Data Summary and Useful Functions Preview 07:28

Data Tables Preview 08:34

Goal-seek and Breakeven Analysis Preview 05:04

Goal Seek Breakeven Analysis Exercise

Goal-seek the breakeven gold price

Welcome to the Advanced Section of the Course Preview 00:52

The Summary Tab - Part 1 Preview 08:06

Mining Tab Part 1 - Building Scenario Analysis Capabilities Preview 06:22

Mining Tab Part 2 - Building Stress Testing Capabilities Preview 07:00

Mining Tab Part 3 - Real-time Data Analysis using Scenarios and Stress Testing Preview 06:54

Cashflow Waterfalls and Cash Sweeps Preview 13:12

The Debt Service Cover Ratio Preview 05:31

The Loan Life Cover Ratio Preview 19:47

The Project Life Cover Ratio Preview 05:22

The Reserve Tail Ratio Preview 01:56

Default vs Drawdown Covenants Preview 03:48

Covenants and Subordinated Debt Preview 02:04

Interaction Between Facilities and Alignment of Interests Preview 03:30

Project Finance Covenants vs Corporate Facility Covenants Preview 03:29

Corporate Covenants Preview 07:46

Gearing Ratio Preview 06:13

Bonus Lecture: Prepayment Facilities, Royalties and Streaming Preview 16:24

Calculating Debt Capacity Preview 13:48

The Debt Summary Chart Preview 07:33

The Summary Tab Part 2 - Stresses, Ratios and Graphs Preview 05:28

The Summary Tab Part 3 - Sources and Uses Table, and Presentations Preview 06:07

Weighted Average Cost of Capital Preview 14:20

Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Preview 08:45

Valuation Data Tables Preview 02:01

Summary Final Preview 03:50