Build Financial Models That Actually Work
Most finance professionals spend hours wrestling with spreadsheets that break the moment someone changes an input. We teach you how to build models that scale, adapt, and stand up to real business pressure. Our September 2025 cohort opens this spring.
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How You'll Actually Learn
Forget about watching endless video lectures. You'll spend your time building, breaking, and rebuilding models until the logic becomes second nature.
Real Company Data
Work with actual financial statements from Vietnamese companies. You'll see messy data, inconsistent formats, and all the headaches that come with real-world analysis. That's where learning happens.
Build From Scratch
No templates. No pre-built formulas. You start with a blank spreadsheet and construct each model piece by piece. This approach takes longer but the understanding sticks with you.
Weekly Reviews
Every Thursday evening, we tear apart what you built. You'll defend your assumptions, explain your logic, and learn why certain approaches fail under pressure. It's tough but necessary.
What Sets Our Program Apart
- Small cohorts mean you get direct feedback on every model you build. We cap enrollment at 18 students so no one gets lost in the crowd.
- Practice sessions use scenarios from manufacturing, retail, and tech startups common in Vietnam's business landscape. The context matters when you're forecasting.
- Our instructors still work as consultants and analysts. They bring problems from last week into the classroom, not textbook examples from 2015.
- Access to our model library after graduation gives you starting points for future projects. Sometimes you need inspiration, not invention.
Linh Phuong Vu
I spent eight years building valuation models for acquisitions before switching to education. The models I teach aren't academic exercises. They're the same frameworks I used to evaluate deals worth millions. When students ask why we structure something a certain way, I can point to specific transactions where that approach mattered.
Program Structure
Twelve weeks of intensive work. Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 10 PM. You'll need another 10-15 hours weekly for assignments and practice builds.
Weeks 1-4: Foundations
Financial statement analysis, forecasting basics, and building your first three-statement model. You'll probably rebuild that first model three times before it works correctly.
Weeks 5-8: Valuation
DCF models, comparable company analysis, and scenario planning. This section gets technical quickly. You need solid Excel skills and comfort with financial concepts before you can succeed here.
Weeks 9-11: Specialization
Choose between LBO modeling for private equity focus, or project finance for infrastructure and development work. Both tracks involve extensive case studies and late nights.
Week 12: Capstone
Build a complete model for a Vietnamese public company. Present your analysis to a panel that includes working analysts. They'll question every assumption you made.
September 2025 Cohort Opens April 15th
Applications close June 30th or when we reach capacity. We'll review submissions on a rolling basis and conduct interviews throughout May and June. Strong Excel skills and finance fundamentals are prerequisites.