Module 7: Financials
Learning objectives: how to build a financial model, model your ask, and present your financials.
Your financials will tell investors most of what they need to know about the investment opportunity you are offering them. What exactly will you deliver over the next five years, in terms of customer, revenue and profit growth. The financials slide is straightforward. The model behind it is anything but. This module shows you what you need to share, how to construct and iterate a financial model, and how to use it to plan your fundraising strategy and calculate how much you need to reach your second round.
Back to course overviewWritten and audio guide: 19 mins
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Essentials
How to approach it
Slide template
Investor insights, covering common mistakes and tips and tricks
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1 Tool exercise:
Develop and iterate a robust model to forecast your financials and calculate your ask (from 30 mins up to a week)
The Ultimate Financial Modeller
This integrates seven different tools to help you get the right inputs, quickly build your future staff plan, generate a complete set of financials (profit and loss, cashflow and balance sheet statements), a visual dashboard and KPI summary to help you analyse your model, a runway calculator to help you plan your fundraising strategy and an ask generator to calculate how much you need to reach your second round.
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