A highly interactive training course on

Financial Challenges in a VUCA World

How to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity

Course Schedules

London

14-18 Apr 2025

$5,950

London

23-27 Jun 2025

$5,950

Dubai

13-17 Oct 2025

$5,950

Dubai

15-19 Dec 2025

$5,950

Training course overview

"Today, businesses face significant financial challenges in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. How can you ensure sustainability, maximize shareholder wealth, increase profitability, and maintain liquidity?

This Financial Challenges in a VUCA World training course offers a comprehensive understanding of evaluating and making financial decisions by assessing the impacts of VUCA factors on revenue, costs, cash flows, and budgets. Participants will design and apply financial models to analyze real-life case studies, enhancing their decision-making skills through sensitivity and scenario analysis that simulates global events. These skills can be directly applied in the workplace to help reduce costs, increase profits, and minimize risks.

This Coventry Academy training course will feature:

Evaluation of real-world volatility in financial markets, including commodity prices, exchange rates, and interest rates.
Practical application of financial modeling skills to real-life case studies relevant to your company.
Development of finance knowledge applicable to business problems and decision-making.
Creation of Financial Models that will be practically useful for you and your organization."

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

Evaluate the impact of VUCA factors on their organization
Develop financial models to meet the financial challenges of today and the future
Manage and Control Budgets in a VUCA world
Manage financial risk using financial models and the latest hedging tools and techniques
Contribute to Sustainable Strategies & Policies

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Financial professionals faced with the challenges of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity
Professionals who need to develop a greater understanding of finance
Professionals who need to develop their financial modelling skills
Those who make decisions using financial models or are impacted by those decisions
Those responsible for managing finance

How will this training course be presented?

This Financial Challenges in a VUCA World training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes discussions, real-world case studies and exercises. Where appropriate, these will include real issues brought to the workshop by delegates.

The training course is highly participatory and delivered by an experienced financial practitioner, who will guide delegates through finance and the latest tools and techniques to ensure delegates leave with new skills to benefit their personal and organizational development.

Course Outline

Day One: The VUCA World

What is VUCA?
Volatility in Financial Markets: Commodity Prices, Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, Investments
Measures of Volatility
Uncertainty & Ambiguity: the differences and implications
Risk: Identifying & Measuring the major Financial Risks
Complexity: Making complex financial decisions using Decision Trees

Day Two: Forecasting Income, Costs and Economic Variables

Forecasting Demand & Revenue using Quantitative & Qualitative Data
Forecasting Commodity Prices, e.g. Oil Prices using statistical models
Expected Monetary Value (EMV) & Probability Analysis
Statistical Forecasts Methods in Excel – Time Series Analysis, Exponential Smoothing, Correlation & Regression Analysis
Cost Estimation – Incremental; Inflation, PERT
Forecasting Interest Rates & Exchange Rates using historical data, Interest Rate Parity Theory and Purchasing Power Parity Theory

Day Three: Managing VUCA Budgets & Working Capital

Preparing Budgets based on Day 2
Budgetary Control & Flexibility
Variance Analysis
Earned Value Analysis: Cost & Schedule Variances
Examining the impact on Working Capital & Break Even
Managing Working Capital & Liquidity in Uncertain & Complexed times

Day Four: Financial Modelling to Aid Decision Making in a VUCA world

Preparing Cash Flow Forecasts based on Day 2
Modelling Finance Decisions – Equity or Debt and the Cost of Capital
Capital Investment Decisions – Payback, ARR, NPV& IRR using Excel
Modelling Risk & Uncertainty in Excel
Sensitivity & What if Analysis
Scenario Analysis

Day Five: Leadership & Risk Management in a VUCA world

Leadership & Management through VUCA
Implementing Sustainable Strategies & Policies
Strategies to remove the VUCA
Hedging Financial Risks
Financial Derivatives – Forwards, Options Futures & Swaps
Using Derivatives to Managing Oil Price Volatility, Interest Rates & Exchange Rates