
Financial Modelling for entrepreneurs
Develop your financial model in a simple and effective way
You have a new brilliant idea and you want to see if the numbers make sense?
This course is for you!
No worries you don’t need business or accounting background. This course is more based on common sense than accounting rules.
We will learn:
- How to differentiate and identify you cost (Investment, Fixed Cost, Variable Cost)?
- How to estimate your revenues?
- How to calculate your margin?
- How to calculate your break-even?
- How to calculate your profit/loss?
- How to estimate cash requirement?
- How to calculate your ROI?
- How to create a simple 3 year financial plan?
- How to play around the model using scenarios (in excel)?
This course is short! Because i want my courses to be short. It’s difficult to keep attention and motivation with e-learning. Therefore, I spend a lot of time preparing my courses to convey my message in the most concise (yet precise) way as possible. The whole course is scripted and recorded using green screen and encrusting keynotes with animation to support.
This means that in just a little bit more than one hour, your are good to go.
This course is really practical and I advise you to work on your own case as you through the lectures (the excel file for the examples are provided).
Your Instructor

Laurent Timmermans is the founder and Managing Director of ATHENASIA Consulting Limited based in Hong Kong since 2012.
With his team he is helping people to start and grow their business through a range of solutions including:
- Business plan development,
- Company setup and maintenance (in Hong Kong)
- Pre- IPO services
More on: athenasia.com
Through this company, he is managing a team of 10 professionals and he has been involved in many consulting projects mainly in the area of business planning from small startup up to to pre-IPO businesses (his biggest plan was for a Chinese company with RMB1.5 Billion turnover looking for IPO).
He is also a part time lecturer at university (in Hong Kong) teaching Management and organisational behavior subjects.
Prior opening his company, Laurent worked in management consulting in the area of performance improvement and learning and development.
He earned 2 master degrees in management sciences and work sciences from top European Universities and can communicate with you in French, English, Portuguese or Spanish.
More about me on Linked in: hk.linkedin.com/in/laurenttimmermans/
Course Curriculum
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StartCost-Revenues Introduction (0:43)
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StartFixed Costs (1:22)
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StartVariable Costs (1:22)
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StartInvestments (1:22)
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StartRevenues (1:16)
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StartBreak-even (2:00)
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StartExample 1: Cost and Revenues (1:16)
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StartExample 2: Margin and Breakeven (1:53)
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StartResult (1:53)
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StartScenarios - "What if?" (1:53)
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StartCash (2:42)
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StartROI - Return On Investment (2:42)