Developing Bankable Climate Finance Proposals

Lecture 05

Modelling the financial case

PublishedVideo lectureWritten by Nuwan de Silva

Content

In the order a learner meets it. Each block is a separate thing to write, and their order is the lecture's argument.

  1. Block 1 · video

    A model nobody can follow is not evidence

    12 minNo file attached in the prototype

    The purpose of a financial model in a proposal is to let someone else check the reasoning behind it. This lecture builds a cash-flow model from a real project's numbers, keeping every assumption on one visible sheet rather than buried in a formula.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Show the case where it fails

    Appraisers trust a proposal that names the conditions under which it does not work. Running the downside - lower uptake, higher capital cost, delayed commissioning - and stating the point the project stops being viable earns more trust than withholding it, because they will find it either way.

Attached materials

What the learner downloads. Everything here comes off the shared library, so one file can serve six lectures and be replaced once.

  • Cash-flow model skeleton

    Spreadsheet · 240 KB · Finance & proposal templates · used by 1 lecture

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  • Sensitivity testing note

    PDF · 560 KB · uploaded straight onto this lecture

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4 questions close this lecture. The pass mark is 70% and is set once for the whole platform. It also carries 2 written questions - a learner has to clear both to move on.

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