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Model and Analyze Project Finance Viability

This course is part of DCF, Comps, and Scenarios: Financial Modeling and Valuation Specialization

Instructor: LearningMate

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

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2 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Learners will build and analyze project finance models, using scenario analysis and DSCR to make data-driven investment recommendations.

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Microsoft Excel

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There are 2 modules in this course

Model and Analyze Project Finance Viability is an intermediate-level course designed for aspiring and current financial analysts, investment professionals, and business strategists who need to master the art and science of project finance. In today's capital-intensive landscape, a gut-feel approach to investment is not enough; you need to build and defend your decisions with data. This course will teach you how to construct a comprehensive, 20-year project finance model from the ground up to assess the long-term viability of large-scale projects.

You will move from a blank spreadsheet to a powerful decision-making tool, learning to model complex components like sculpted debt schedules and multi-tiered equity waterfalls. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you will master the use of scenario analysis to test a project's resilience against market volatility and interpret critical metrics like the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR). The course culminates in a realistic final project where you will triage a partially broken model, fix its core logic, and deliver a data-driven "go/no-go" recommendation to an investment committee. By the end, you'll not only know how to build a model but how to use it to make defensible, high-stakes investment decisions.

Module details

This module teaches you how to be a critical user of a project finance model. You will learn to interpret key outputs, analyze a project's health using the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), and run scenarios to test its resilience. The module culminates in a timed drill where you must make a fast, data-driven investment recommendation based on a pre-built model.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

This module provides a step-by-step guide to constructing a complete project finance model in Excel. You will learn to forecast cash flows and build the two most complex and essential components: a sculpted debt schedule and a multi-tiered equity waterfall.