Our Financial Modelling in Excel LinkedIn Group is now over 40,000 members! Founded and moderated by Plum Solutions since 2009, the group contains hundreds of relevant and informative posts and discussions by financial modellers all over the world. 
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It’s always nice to network face-to-face as well, and as a spin-off from this group, we are planning regular meetups for this group in key locations this year. You may also be eligible to claim Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for attending these sessions. Here are the scheduled dates and locations:
2019 Upcoming Dates
- Sydney, Wed 1st May “Identifying the Signs of Insolvency using Financial Data Analysis” Shabnam Amirbeaggi
- Johannesburg, Thurs 16th May “Financial Modelling in Excel – First Meetup of 2019!”
- Sydney, Mon 3rd Jun “Using Power BI to Create Dashboards with Chandoo”
- Melbourne, Tues 4th Jun “Using Power BI to Create Dashboards with Chandoo”
- Brisbane, Mon 10th Jun “Using Power BI to Create Dashboards with Chandoo”
- Sydney, Wed 24th Jul “Applying Bayesian Statistics to Financial Models” Kevin Lian
- Sydney, Mon 19th Aug “Transforming Data into Executive presentations” Erica Blythe
- Brisbane, Thurs 22nd Aug “Beyond Error Checks – making notifications helpful for users regardless of skill” Thomas Paul
Other meetup groups around the world you can check out:
2019 Upcoming Dates in Australia
Upcoming Events
- May 1, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Most SME business owners often see financial statements as merely compliance, and overlook the importance of using financial data to analyse the health of their business. With over 20 years’ insolvency experience, Shabnam Amirbeaggi continues to see too many businesses fail unnecessarily as a result of lack of understanding by the business owner of the (more…)
- June 3, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building dashboards and other visualisations in Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query is an incredibly in-demand skill for finance professionals, including financial modellers, and in this session, Chandoo will give a session on why these tools are must-haves for finance professionals. • About your Speaker Chandoo (aka Purna Duggirala) is the founder of https://chandoo.org/, an award-winning (more…)
- June 4, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us to hear from research analyst and financial modeller, Fiona Bachmann present agriculture case studies of building DCF models for capital expenditure and new business projects, and then presenting and communicating the results of the financial model to a less financially literate audience.
- June 10, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building dashboards and other visualisations in Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query is an incredibly in-demand skill for finance professionals, including financial modellers, and in this session, Chandoo will give a session on why these tools are must-haves for finance professionals. • About your Speaker Chandoo (aka Purna Duggirala) is the founder of https://chandoo.org/, an award-winning (more…)
- July 24, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Are your financial models ready for ‘historic levels’ of uncertainty in 2019? How will you adapt to a changing environment that limits the relevancy of data and creates new and emerging risks? Learn how the Bayesian statistics can help you account for and update your opinions and inferences as new information becomes available. • About (more…)
- August 19, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Being able to influence stakeholders with your data is a key skill for modellers and other finance professionals. If you’ve sat through boring investor presentations with tedious statistics and endless PowerPoint slides, you’ll know how important it is to present meaningful information. Financial modellers are very good at numerical and data analysis, but it’s also (more…)
- August 22, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Making sure that users know if an error has occurred in a model is critical for any financial model built in Excel, but how do you alert the user to the issue? Could someone with limited modelling skill find the error and know how to fix it? With models often being sent to different stakeholders, (more…)
Past Dates & Topics
2019 Dates
- Sydney, Wed 30th Jan “Sculpted Debt Modelling for Project Finance Transactions” Alex McNee (View the Photos Here) (Watch the presentation here)
- Melbourne, Tues 5th Mar “The Power and the Pitfalls of Discounted Cashflow (DCF) Modelling” Fiona Bachmann
- Sydney, Tues 12th Mar “Stochastic vs Deterministic Approaches to Financial Modelling” John De Ravin
- Sydney, Wed 10th Apr “Data Tables Revisited; more than Sensitivity Analysis” James Clarkson
The meetups vary from location to location in terms of size, cost (if any) and venue. Please click on the links above for more information and to RSVP to the Meetup. Even if you are unable to make that date, then still join the group and you’ll be advised of upcoming meetups in your area. If you can’t make any of these dates, or there is a not a meetup scheduled in your area, then please register your interest below so that we can let you know of other dates and locations. If we receive enough interest in starting a meetup group, dates will be confirmed and a venue advised.
Can’t see your area listed above? Positions are open for organisers in other areas, so if you are interested in hosting or organising a meetup near you, then please let us know and we’d love to help you organise and promote it.
Click here for 2018, 2017 and 2016 past Meetup Presentations and Topics.
