Funding & Finance for startups: Workshop for Investment and Modelling
Details
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*** Workshop limited to 30 members only ***
This is a paid workshop, £ 14.99 pp
· How Investment ready is your startup?
· What can founders do to improve the chances of getting Investment from Angels and VCs?
· How can you best answer the Funding questions of Investors and Stakeholders?
Who is this for:
For all startup founders and staff who want to improve their Funding, Finance, Accounting and Business competence and knowledge.
Work shop objectives:
The main objectives to be achieved in this workshop are:
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Modelling
Your startups will have to be modelled correctly to reflect its current stage and to record its progress. You will need to understand all the variables that impact your startup. -
Investment ready
Investors will require you to explain and understand your business in terms of numbers.
You will be prepared to confidently speak to them and to answer their questions about the KPIs, Metrics, Projections and Due diligence. -
Compliance
You will have to set in place controls and procedures in your startup, for the purposes of financial reporting to investors, stakeholders, staff, HMRC for tax and VAT.
You will need to register and pay for this event on EventBrite:
Topics will include:
These topics will be covered over the course of a series of workshops, will be related to Funding and Finance:
• Cash flows and Cash management
• Metrics, KPIs, Key ratios
• Profit and loss, Balance sheets
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Book keeping and Double entry
• Compliance, Regulation and Due diligence
• Management accounts and ReportingWe will also look at the Financial accounts of successful public listed tech companies like
Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Skype, Paypal, etc
Session 17th February:
This session will focus on the topics of:
- Budgeting/forecasting
and - Cashflows
Each session will be a stand alone module
Instructors:
Osmond Desilva, Funding & Finance partner
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Osmond Desilva, Author of Conversation Confidence on Amazon. I am an Accountant and Electronics Engineer and assist in Business Plans, Pitch, Development, Strategy, Mentor and Funding for Startups and Entrepreneurs for over 25 years around the world
He has also been the host of the Business Funding show, Tech city and VC stand
Vipul Somaiya, Director at Taxplus Accountants Limited
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· An ACA qualified Chartered Accountant, member of ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
· One of the co-founder of accounting firm Taxplus Accountants Limited, more details can be found here
· Coach/mentor/speaker/consultant to many companies looking for funds. Specialty in SEIS/EIS funding
Schedule
The schedule for the afternoon will be as follows:
2.00 pm to 2.30 pm Introductions and Networking
2.30 pm to 3.15 pm Workshop Part 1 – Modelling
3.15 pm to 4.00 pm Workshop Part 2 – Case studies
Training
Full and flexible training can be provided for these accounting software packages:
Excel, Kashflow, Xero, VT, Iris, Sage and Payroll.
Laptops and MS Office
Remember to bring your Laptops to all workshops.
Also ensure that you laptops have MS office as,
we will be using spread sheets in all the workshops
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