Know Your Numbers: Building financial forecasts that attract investors

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 GM Digital Security Hub (DiSH).

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.

GM Digital Security Hub (DiSH) offers growing digital security businesses and the wider Greater Manchester community with access to business support, mentoring, dedicated growth programmes, training, and career opportunities through a consortium of Barclays Eagle Labs, Plexal, Lancaster University and The University of Manchester.

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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