Following are examples of the types of participants who attended our courses and the outcomes and benefits they obtained.
Workshop | Participant's work area / role | Outcome | Benefit | |||
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Spreadsheet Skills for Finance | Settlements division in a securities firm | Now able to use and combine spreadsheet formulae to pick up errors / omissions / inconsistencies in settlements data. | Reduced operational risk. | |||
Visual Basic for Finance | Finance manager in an Oil / Energy company | Automating a monthly roll-over process involving a set of large spreadsheets. | Faster monthly processing. | |||
Financial modelling | Analyst in corporate finance / investment banking | Able to do sensitivity analyses to double-check the robustness of a financial model. | Reduced model errors. | |||
Visual Basic for Finance | Real estate group | Reduced size of spreadsheet from 30Mb to 4Mb by eliminating duplication and introducing automation. | Faster processing / smaller size / reduced inconsistencies. |