Taught by Charles T. "Chip" Haskell, Jr, Managing Director of The Vair Companies and Internationally-Renowned Financial Modeling Instructor.

Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/02/2010 -- Financial Modeling and Analysis teaches students how to conceive of and build a financial model from beginning-to-end, followed by due diligence. This course demonstrates how financial models guide commercial discussions. Participants will learn how to negotiate off the financial model.

This course will utilize a Discounted Cash Flow ("DCF") pro forma approach derived from a full suite of financial statements: 1) Income Statement, 2) Statement of Retained Earnings, 3) Balance Sheet and, 4) Statement of Cash Flow. Participants use "hot keys" and page-setup techniques to build a fully integrated pro forma DCF model from a list of assumptions. The "mouseless" Excel techniques employed dramatically reduce model coding time. Next, delegates learn how to integrate all financial statements to produce a correctly-balanced Balance Sheet, without circularities. The class will use this model as a guide to review commercial issues, negotiate strategies and analyze financial ratios. Finally, the course demonstrates the power of Monte Carlo simulation analysis creating a dynamic decision-making tool and elevating beyond simple static input and output spreadsheets.

Dates: Jan 11-12, 2011

Course Participants Include:
Financial Analysts, Investment & Evaluation Professionals, Business Development Planners, Mergers & Acquisitions Specialists, Accountants, Valuation Professionals

This course is indispensable to the effective use of financial spreadsheets for any industry or sector. (NB: A working knowledge of financial accounting is helpful but not essential.)

This course will be followed by by a 2-day Public-Private Partnership Advanced Modeling with Legal Analysis course, also led by Vair Head Trainer, Charles "Chip" Haskell and Torys Partner and PPP-specialized attorney, Jonathan Weisz.

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Vair Training is honored to partner again with the Canadian law firm, Torys, LLP, for Public-Private Partnership Advanced Modeling with Legal Analysis in Toronto this January.

Toronto, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/01/2010 -- Public-Private Partnership Modeling & Legal Analysis is a Vair Training Specialty Class and focuses uniquely on Public-Private Partnership ("PPP") projects in Canada and their related modeling issues. After reviewing some basic elements that separate PPP from traditional infrastructure and project financing, the participants are given a full suite of project documents and macroeconomic information that are indicative to infrastructure projects. This is followed by a step-by-step procedure of building a complex model for a concessionaire bid. This phase of the course demonstrates how to dove-tail contracts and shows that nothing in PPP is mutually exclusive.

Taught by Charles T. "Chip" Haskell, Jr, Managing Director of The Vair Companies and Internationally-Renowned Financial Modeling Instructor.

Dates: January 13-14, 2011

Course Participants include:
Infrastructure Heads, CFOs, Financial Analysts, Project Finance Teams, Corporate & Structured Finance Teams, Investment & Evaluation Professionals, Business Development Planners, Joint Ventures Specialists, Contactors, Gov't Finance Officers/Treasurers, Accountants, PF/PPP Attorneys

Once completed, the delegates review the model from a due-diligence analysis, usually taken from a government, lender or third-party equity perspective. The final phase of this module uses sophisticated model techniques, including @RISK 5.0, to help the practitioner price the deal and negotiate off the financial model. Special consideration is given to more advanced PPP issues like liquidated-damages analysis and appropriate security packages. @RISK Monte Carlo Simulation capabilities will bring a value-add and more dynamic dimension to the normally static spreadsheet analysis. Torys Partner and PPP-specialized attorney, Jonathan Weisz, will offer a unique legal perspective to compliment Vair's advanced modeling and commercially-driven course. The course's overriding theme is to use the model as a highly-developed financial analysis tool that reviews the appropriate risk-versus-reward profiles of project finance. This is an advanced course and is geared to the intermediate-to-advanced delegate.

The PPP class will be prefaced by a 2-day "general" financial modeling course, also led by Vair Head Trainer, Charles "Chip" Haskell.

More Information:
Please visit our website for a detailed syllabus and registration information http://vaircompanies.com

Contact Us:
Toll Free: +1 866 410 VAIR (8247) within the United States & Canada
International: +1 770 853 0362
E-mail: info@vaircompanies.com

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The Vair Companies will be hosting a new two day financial modeling master class; Risk Modeling and Decision Analysis in New York this October. The course will be taught by Dr. William J. McKibbin.

Atlanta, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/06/2010 -- Risk Modeling and Decision Analysis is a Vair Training Master Class and focuses on risk management for virtually any industry and its related modeling issues. This course covers the basic principles of quantitative-risk analysis and the most important risk modeling principles, methods and techniques. The focus of the workshop is how to conduct accurate and effective quantitative-risk analyses, including best practices of risk modeling, selecting appropriate distributions, using data and expert opinion, and avoiding common mistakes. The course covers assessment of uncertainty, simulation, time-series forecasting, optimization, correlation, eliciting and modeling expert estimates, and communicating riskanalysis results. The training enables participants to produce realistic, high quality corporate finance risk-analysis models in a manner that provides decision makers with the clearest and most helpful input. In addition, the course covers essential probability and statistics theory and various stochastic processes in order to provide course participants with a solid understanding of quantitative risk-analysis methods and techniques.

Dates : 27-28 October, 2010

The course will be taught by Dr. William J. McKibbin; a risk modeler and decision analyst specializing in forecasting, simulation, optimization, stochastics, statistics, programming, training and presentation support. Dr. McKibbin has been in professional practice serving companies in various capacities as consultant, advisor and trainer since 1998. He is an expert user of Excel (Microsoft), ModelRisk (Vose) and Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft).

More Information:
Please visit our website for a detailed syllabus and registration information http://vaircompanies.com

Contact Us:
Toll Free: +1 866 410 VAIR (8247) within the United States & Canada
International: +1 770 853 0362
E-mail: info@vaircompanies.com

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Atlanta, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/14/2010 -- This Public-Private Partnership Modeling and Legal Analysis course will commence September 24, 2010. Learn to Negotiate Off the Model and Dove-Tail Contracts & Models.

- Incorporating new debt profiles to meet existing market conditions
- Build an extensive concessionaire bid model
- Learn advanced modeling techniques for robustness
- Review for specific legal, contract and structure due diligence
- Use financial models to guide negotiations and decision-making
- Learn to "negotiate off the model" and dovetail the model and contract
- Engage in real-time commercial discussions with active project developer/financial advisor and PPP legal experts

People do not sign models - They sign the contracts that those models represent.Public-Private Partnership Modeling & Legal Analysis is a Vair Training Specialty Class and focuses uniquely on Public-Private Partnership ("PPP") projects in Canada and their related modeling issues. After reviewing some basic elements that separate PPP from traditional infrastructure and project financing, the participants are given a full suite of project documents and macroeconomic information that are indicative to infrastructure projects. This is followed by a step-by-step procedure of building a complex model for a concessionaire bid. This phase of the course demonstrates how to dove-tail contracts and shows that nothing in PPP is mutually exclusive.

Once completed, the delegates review the model from a due-diligence analysis, usually taken from a government, lender or third-party equity perspective. The final phase of this module uses sophisticated model techniques, including @RISK 5.0, to help the practitioner price the deal and negotiate off the financial model. Special consideration is given to more advanced PPP issues like liquidated-damages analysis and appropriate security packages. @RISK Monte Carlo Simulation capabilities will bring a value-add and more dynamic dimension to the normally static spreadsheet analysis. The course's overriding theme is to use the model as a highly-developed financial analysis tool that reviews the appropriate risk-versus-reward profiles of project finance. This is an advanced course and is geared to the intermediate-to-advanced delegate.

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Vair Training begins a series of Public-Private Partnership open-enrollment courses in Ottawa this September.

Atlanta, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/14/2010 -- The financial modeling program will consist of two consecutive, 2-day workshops: Financial Modeling & Analysis in Excel and PPP Advanced Financial Modeling & Legal Analysis. Led by active project developers, participants will build an extensive concessionaire bid model and learn to negotiate off the model. Prestigious law firms, including Bennett Jones, LLP and Torys, LLP, will provide legal-analysis components to the courses and demonstrate how to effectively dovetail models and contracts.

Subsequent PPP training will be conducted in Washington, DC and Toronto.

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Ottawa, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/09/2010 -- Become a more effective and efficient modeler through one "hands on" course.

- Learn efficient modeling for specific financial analysis
- Build financial models to guide negotiations and decision-making
- Apply Excel shortcuts and hot keys to get you off the mouse
- Learn effective auditing techniques on existing models
- Employ Monte Carlo Simulations
- Engage in relevant commercial discussions with active project developer/financial advisor

Dates: 21-22 September, 2010

Financial Modeling and Analysis teaches students how to conceive of and build a financial model from beginning-to-end, followed by due diligence. This course demonstrates how financial models guide commercial discussions. Participants will learn how to negotiate off the financial model.

This course will utilize a Discounted Cash Flow ("DCF") pro forma approach derived from a full suite of financial statements: 1) Income Statement, 2) Statement of Retained Earnings, 3) Balance Sheet and, 4) Statement of Cash Flow. Participants use "hot keys" and page-setup techniques to build a fully integrated pro forma DCF model from a list of assumptions. The "mouseless" Excel techniques employed dramatically reduce model coding time. Next, delegates learn how to integrate all financial statements to produce a correctly-balanced Balance Sheet, without circularities. The class will use this model as a guide to review commercial issues, negotiate strategies and analyze financial ratios. Finally, the course demonstrates the power of Monte Carlo simulation analysis creating a dynamic decision-making tool and elevating beyond simple static input and output spreadsheets.

This course is indispensable to the effective use of financial spreadsheets for any industry or sector. (NB: A working knowledge of financial accounting is helpful but not essential.)

For more information please visit http://vaircompanies.com

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Johannesburg, South Africa -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/10/2010 -- The Vair Companies in association with Linklaters will be hosting Project Finance Advanced Financial Modeling and Legal Analysis courses in upcoming months in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.

"People do not sign models, they sign the contracts that those models represent." As project finance evolves and becomes increasingly complex, project participants risk a disconnect between their commercial understanding of the financial model and the actual contractual language. Linklaters and Vair combine their experience and expertise to demonstrate the creation of a sound relationship between project and finance documents and the model and how to identify and avoid potential pitfalls. This is a unique and new approach to the traditional seminar experience. Combining disciplines to present a holistic view of projects, Vair and Linklaters give participants a detailed insight into the development process.

After reviewing some basic elements of project finance, the participants are given a full suite of abridged project documents and macroeconomic information that are indicative of any infrastructure project. This is followed by the participants building a complex equity case financial model step-by-step. This phase of the seminar demonstrates how to dove-tail contracts and that nothing in project finance is mutually exclusive. Once completed, the delegates review the financial model or due diligence analysis, usually from a lender or third-party equity perspective. The final phase of this seminar uses sophisticated modeling techniques, coupled with review of contractual language, to price the deal and negotiate off the financial model. Special consideration is given to more advanced project finance issues like off-take clauses, liquidated damages analysis and appropriate covenant definitions. The seminar's overriding theme is to match the financial model as a highly-developed financial analysis tool with contractual language, deriving an appropriate risk-versus-reward structure. This is an advanced seminar and is geared to the intermediate-to-advanced delegate.

For more information or for a detailed syllabus, please visit http://vaircompanies.com

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Become a More Effective and Efficient Financial Modeler through one "Hands-On" Course

Sao Paulo, Brazil -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/09/2010 -- Financial Modeling and Analysis teaches students how to conceive of and build a financial model from beginning-to-end, followed by due diligence. This course demonstrates how financial models guide commercial discussions. Participants will learn how to negotiate off the financial model.

Dates: June 22-23, 2010

This course will utilize a Discounted Cash Flow ("DCF") pro forma approach derived from a full suite of financial statements: 1) Income Statement, 2) Statement of Retained Earnings, 3) Balance Sheet and, 4) Statement of Cash Flow. Participants use "hot keys" and page-setup techniques to build a fully integrated pro forma DCF model from a list of assumptions. The "mouseless" Excel techniques employed dramatically reduce model coding time. Next, delegates learn how to integrate all financial statements to produce a correctly-balanced Balance Sheet, without circularities. The class will use this model as a guide to review commercial issues, negotiate strategies and analyze financial ratios. Finally, the course demonstrates the power of Monte Carlo simulation analysis creating a dynamic decision-making tool and elevating beyond simple static input and output spreadsheets.

This course is indispensable to the effective use of financial spreadsheets for any industry or sector. (NB: A working knowledge of financial accounting is helpful but not essential.)

Please visit our website for a detailed syllabus and registration information http://vaircompanies.com

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