Know Your Numbers: Building financial forecasts that attract investors

Know Your Numbers: Building financial forecasts that attract investors

This workshop will be delivered by a professional accountant in practice and will examine the importance of financial forecasting.

By GM Business Growth Hub @ The Growth Company

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Location

Manchester

City Centre Manchester M3 United Kingdom

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Highlights

  • 3 hours
  • In person

About this event

Understanding and gaining the ability to communicate your financials with confidence and credibility. This workshop will be delivered by a professional accountant in practice and will examine the importance of financial forecasting.

As part of the workshop, you will learn how to prepare and present and present the financial forecasts required when raising funds. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into how funders evaluate these forecasts and incorporate them into their decision-making process, equipping you with the knowledge to better meet their expectations and secure investment opportunities.

This workshop is delivered in collaboration with Cooper Parry, Powdr, and NatWest Accelerator.

Cooper Parry are the Rebels of Accountancy, the largest accountancy B Corp and #1 accountancy firm in the UK per the Mid-Tier Power Index. We support like-minded entrepreneurial businesses with tech-enabled services across audit, tax, innovation, outsourced finance support and wealth management. We’re here to disrupt, lead and make life count for our people, clients, communities and the planet.

Powdr is a fast growing, scale-up based in Manchester. Their financial modelling software enables businesses of all stages and sizes to build robust yet flexible 5-year forecasts quickly, clearly and accurately.

The NatWest Accelerator is in its 10th year of supporting start ups and scales up nationally. It allows you to access co-working space and become part of a vibrant community of like-minded business owners in a location near you. You can also sign up for our regular events, meet your local Accelerator team, understand what support we could offer, and engage with the entrepreneurs in the hub. We are happy to host this event with our friends The Growth Company to provide even more support for our Manchester entrepreneurs.

Your place on the workshop is not automatically confirmed and you will receive an email from BGHworkshops@growthco.uk once it is.

As this workshop is fully-funded, businesses are subject to funders' eligibility criteria. If your place is confirmed, you will receive an email from us with further details.

  • Greater Manchester business only.
  • Micro business, small and medium-sized enterprise, or large business.
  • Social enterprises where these engage in economic activity.

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GM Business Growth Hub, part of The Growth Company, helps businesses at all stages of their growth journey with a broad range of services delivered by its experts, as well as public and private sector partners. These services include one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes and funding. Find out more.

Free
Oct 14 · 9:30 AM GMT+1