Financial Analysis Training Program
Twelve months of practical instruction in business activity analysis, designed for professionals who want to understand what the numbers actually mean. No shortcuts, no overnight transformations—just systematic skill development that prepares you for real work.
What You'll Actually Learn
Four quarters of focused work. Each builds on the previous one. You can't skip ahead—and honestly, you wouldn't want to. The early fundamentals show up everywhere later.
Financial Statements Foundation
Start with how businesses report their activities. Income statements, balance sheets, cash flow documents. We spend three months here because everything else depends on understanding these properly.
Ratio Analysis Methods
How to compare numbers meaningfully. Profitability ratios, liquidity measures, efficiency indicators. You'll learn which ratios matter for different industries and why some are misleading.
Cash Flow Patterns
Why profitable companies run out of money. How to spot cash flow problems before they become critical. Operating cycles, working capital management, and the difference between profit and cash.
Industry Context Analysis
Numbers mean different things in different sectors. Retail versus manufacturing, services versus products. You'll work with actual company data from multiple industries to understand these differences.
Risk Identification
Finding warning signs in financial data. High debt levels, declining margins, customer concentration. We use historical case studies of companies that got into trouble—and what their numbers looked like beforehand.
Practical Project Work
Final quarter focuses on independent analysis. You'll examine real businesses, prepare comprehensive reports, and present findings. This is where everything comes together—or where you discover what you still need to work on.
Who Teaches This
Our instructors work in financial analysis during the day. They teach because they remember how confusing this stuff was when they started. Each brings different industry experience, which means you get multiple perspectives on the same concepts.
Finnegan Threlfall
Spent fifteen years analyzing manufacturing companies. Started in audit, moved into credit analysis, now does turnaround consulting. Teaches the ratio analysis and risk modules because he's seen what happens when companies ignore those metrics.
Callum Bexley
Covers retail and consumer companies for an investment firm. Handles the industry context sections. Good at explaining why the same ratio means different things in different sectors—something that confused him for years when he was learning.
Dashiell Winterbourne
Works inside a large company doing financial planning and analysis. Teaches the cash flow modules because he deals with working capital issues constantly. His perspective complements the external analyst viewpoint.
Lachlan Pembroke
Does valuation work for mergers and acquisitions. Supervises the final project quarter. He's particularly strict about report quality because sloppy analysis has real consequences in his field.
How This Program Works
We're not trying to make this entertaining. It's twelve months of fairly demanding work. But we've structured it based on how people actually develop analytical skills—not how education companies think learning should happen.
Weekly Problem Sets
Every week you get real financial statements to analyze. Not textbook examples—actual company filings. You submit your analysis, get detailed feedback, revise it. This is where most of the learning happens.
Live Discussion Sessions
Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Australian time. We work through problems together, compare different analytical approaches, discuss what you're struggling with. Attendance isn't mandatory but most people show up because it helps.
Cumulative Projects
You track the same three companies throughout the year. By month twelve, you have a detailed understanding of their financial performance over multiple quarters. This long-term perspective reveals things that snapshot analysis misses.
Peer Review Process
You'll critique other students' work and defend your own analysis. Uncomfortable at first, but this is how you learn to spot analytical weaknesses—including your own. The best analysts we know are good at finding holes in their reasoning.
You'll examine over forty different businesses across various industries during the year
Minimum hands-on analytical work required to complete all assignments and projects
Small cohorts allow detailed feedback and meaningful discussion during sessions
Applications Open June 2025
We review applications on a rolling basis starting June 1st. The program begins September 8th, 2025. Places are limited to maintain the discussion quality we think matters.
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