This course provides an overview of XERAS, RungePincockMinarco’s financial modelling and budgeting tool.
This course will provide the skills to support successful business analysis and business modelling using XERAS.
Who should attend?
This course is recommended for those who play a key role, or are interested in, financial modelling, forecasting and maintenance. It is also suitable for people wanting to understand the principles of XERAS model building.
Participants typically include:
- Operational and Planning Engineers
- Business and Strategic Analysts
- Financial and Management Accountants
- Maintenance Planners
- Maintenance Engineers
- Superintendents
Pre-requisite skills
It is assumed that participants work in the mining or mining related industry. This course is a pre-requisite for the XERAS Advanced Course.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using XERAS financial modelling in their business.
- Understand the functionality of XERAS
- Build a simple XERAS model
- Describe the principles of XERAS model building
- Use basic query and audit tools
- Evaluate scenarios to produce reports.
Course modules
General Overview
- What is XERAS?
- The power of XERAS vs. Excel
- How can XERAS add value to your business?
How does XERAS work? The following modules will be interactive. You will learn how to progressively build a XERAS model through a series of workshops. - Overview of the XERAS structures
- Initial elements setup - calendar, resource, pool, activity, category
- Templates and spreadsheets
- Formulae and functions
- Importing and exporting data
Aggregation Calculation Pool Allocation Logic | Reporting
- Report structure
- Importing and exporting data
- Basic reports
Scenarios Query and audit tools XERAS outputs XERAS options |
Registration Forms
To register for this course, please download and fill in the appropriate booking form below.