Seminars / Webcasts

Financial Mechanics offers regular seminars, including online webinars, where we address particular topics of interest in Financial Modeling. Attendees join us from all over the world and we do our best to schedule our webinars to meet the differing time zone requirements of our global client base.

Our webinars cover different topics but they have some things on common. They are always:

 

FAST Mechanics

Learning the basic techniques of the FAST modelling methodology will have an immediate and positive impact on your modelling. The FAST mechanics webinar gives you some tips and tricks that will have a real and lasing impact on the quality of your models. As an extra benefit, the session is interactive so that you can question our expert modelers.

Read more about our FAST Mechanics Webinars.

 

Excel 2007 Skills Upgrade

If you have attended a Financial Mechanics course before, but have moved from Excel 2003 or earlier to Excel 2007 you might find yourself asking questions such as :

You need our free Excel 2007 skills upgrade course. It is an hour-long walkthrough of the new Excel environment, with keystroke and operations adjustments. You can ask any questions you have and should be back up to speed at the end.

Register for the next free on-line session.

 

Risk Modeling

Professional risk analyst Julian Downes gives an introduction to probabilistic risk modeling, commonly referred to as ‘Monte Carlo’ analysis.

This webinar gives you an introduction to the basic principles – starting with just the functions already available in Microsoft Excel. Julian will also compare two leading Monte Carlo Excel add-ins, @Risk and Crystal Ball.

Read more about our Risk Modeling Webinars.

 

Analytical Review Techniques

Getting to grips with other people’s models can be time consuming and frustrating. Yet, as modelers, we spend a lot of our time in these tasks. But there is help.

Our Analytical Review Techniques webinar gives you, in an hour, a few useful pointers that will help you to get to grips with whatever chaos has landed on your desk while keeping your stress levels down.

Read more about our Analytical Review Techniques Webinars.

 

Fundamentals of Power Market Modeling

Our rapidly growing pro bono training group is pleased to announce this free webinar. It reviews the logic and results of a stripped-down 800 kB simple, four-plant type model of an isolated power market. What can that teach us? A model designed not to confound the simple but cast light on the complex? Heresy within the modeling fraternity indeed.

 

Read more about our Fundamentals of Power Market Modeling Webinars.

 

Scratch Modeling in Excel

Techniques to use spreadsheets for high-level decision making

Sao Paulo, 23 June 2010

If it were called “Numbers”, would we treat Microsoft Excel more like Word?  Financial analysis might be better for it if we did.

Join John Richter as he introduces some of the techniques of ‘scratch modeling’, demonstrating, step-by-step, the modeling solution to a simple business problem.

For more information and to register for the next seminar in Sao Paulo, please read more about our Scratch Modeling in Excel Seminar.