Financial Mechanics - The F1F9 and FAST modeling approach

What We Do

Financial Mechanics builds financial models used in forecasting business performance, evaluating projects, securing funding, and making acquisitions. We also teach clients these skills by delivering regularly scheduled training courses available worldwide.

We’ve tried, tested, and honed our model designs and modeling techniques. We either build models for our clients or teach them how to build and analyze models more quickly and effectively themselves.

Financial models can be complex, but they don’t have to be. Through our FAST modeling approach, we build -- or through our T-series courses teach our clients to build -- models that are simple; simple makes them clear.

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Our clients

Our corporate clients include ngs/en.js" type="text/javascript"> global project developers, international construction companies, oil majors, leading mining companies, and major utilities. Amongst financial institutions and advisors, our clients include 14 of the 25 largest global banks¹, more than 20 smaller commercial banks from across the world, 6 of the top 8 accounting firms, and leading financial advisors and investors.

Client satisfaction is very important to us and we strive to provide the highest quality product to ensure that our clients return to us time after time.

¹ by Total Assets. Source: The Banker, 2007

FAST modeling

Financial models are invariably large, error-prone, and incomprehensible even to their authors. Our approach to modeling is practical not theoretical. We teach model builders how to design and construct financial models that can be practically used to evaluate businesses and make decisions, a financial model’s ultimate purpose.

To support this objective good financial models must be built under short lead times, must be easily used and reviewed by others, must be free of fundamental omissions and logical errors, and must be readily adaptable as circumstances change. We believe that these requirements can only be met if models are FAST:

FLEXIBLE Model design and modeling techniques must allow models to be adapted easily and quickly when new information becomes available
ACCURATE Models must reflect key business assumptions directly and faithfully without being over-built or cluttered with unnecessary detail
STRUCTURED Rigorous consistency in layout and organization is essential to retain a model’s logical integrity over time, particularly as a model’s author may change
TRANSPARENT Our modeling approach is founded on simple, clear calculations that can be understood by other modelers and non-modelers alike

We teach and apply the FAST modeling principles in each of our T-series courses. To promote awareness and discussion of FAST modeling, Financial Mechanics supports the Fast Modeling Standard.