A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Financial Challenges in a VUCA World

How to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity

Financial Challenges in a VUCA World
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

14-18 Apr 2025
London
$5,950
23-27 Jun 2025
London
$5,950
13-17 Oct 2025
Dubai
$5,950
15-19 Dec 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training 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.

The Course Content

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