• FMVA® certification program
  • 43 total courses (18 required)
  • Self-Paced & 100% Online
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96%
improved how they build models, analyze data, and deliver insights at work
93%
felt better prepared for roles in FP&A, investment banking, and corporate finance
43%
use CFI models and templates in their day-to-day work
Why Choose FMVA®

Go From Reviewing Models to Building Them

Many analysts can read a model. The FMVA® program teaches you to evaluate a company’s financial health, build dynamic financial models in Excel, estimate the value of businesses, and clearly present your analysis. FMVA® is designed for professionals and students ...

Many analysts can read a model. The FMVA® program teaches you to evaluate a company’s financial health, build dynamic financial models in Excel, estimate the value of businesses, and clearly present your analysis. FMVA® is designed for professionals and students advancing or entering careers in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or corporate finance/FP&A at top global and Philippine firms.

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“The FMVA accelerated my ability to produce robust, auditable valuation work and shortened the time from idea to implementation.”
Recognized by Employers Across the Philippines and Globally
The FMVA® Certification is globally recognized by financial modeling and valuation professionals. An FMVA® credential verifies that you have practical, job-ready skills and strengthens your candidacy for roles such as Finance Analyst, Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Finance Analyst, and Treasury Specialist. Stand out to firms in Makati and BGC, growing shared services hubs in Cebu and Davao, global corporations, and remote employers.
Built by Finance Practitioners, for Finance Practitioners
Our expert instructors earn high ratings for their clear, step-by-step video instructions that make complex financial theories and Excel tasks easy to follow. FMVA® graduates emerge from the program prepared with practical, job-ready skills that finance employers expect, whether in a global corporation, Philippine firm, or remote position.
Trusted by 3 Million Finance Professionals Worldwide
Financial analysts, investment bankers, corporate development directors, and FP&A managers across 190+ countries have made the FMVA® Certification their globally recognized credential of choice for financial modeling and valuation.
A Credential That Travels With Your Career
An FMVA® Certification delivers value at every stage of a finance career in the Philippines and beyond. Early-career professionals build job-ready financial modeling and valuation skills. Mid-level analysts formalize and validate what they already know. Senior professionals add a globally recognized certification to credentials they have spent years building. Every step forward is a step toward greater stability and more opportunity for you and your family.

What You'll Learn in the FMVA® Program

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Financial Modeling
Financial Modeling
35%
Accounting
20%
Valuation
15%
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
10%
Excel
8%
Data Visualization
7%
Qualitative Business Analysis
5%

Financial Modeling

Competitive finance roles, whether at a Philippine or multinational corporation, shared services center, or investment firm, expect you to build models, not just read them. Financial modeling courses teach you to construct the financial models that analysts, investors, and managers rely on to make informed decisions.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build a dynamic, logically structured three-statement model with clear assumptions and outputs that managers can review and trust

  • Create multi-year forecasts across the income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet

  • Run scenario and sensitivity analyses so you can show what happens to the numbers when conditions change

Accounting

Strong accounting fundamentals are the foundation of every credible financial model and analysis. This section ensures you understand what’s driving the numbers, not just how to report them.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Read and interpret financial statements with confidence, understanding how each component connects to the others

  • Apply the accounting principles that underpin the standards that financial analysts often encounter

  • Understand how accounting decisions affect your models and the outputs that follow from them

Valuation

Valuation is among the most in-demand skills across investment banking, private equity, and corporate finance globally and in the Philippines. This section teaches you how to determine a company’s value and defend that view with data.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Understand the main valuation methodologies, when to use each, and the tradeoffs between them

  • Build comparable company and precedent transaction analyses from real data

  • Construct a DCF model in Excel and calculate the weighted average cost of capital

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

FP&A is one of the fastest-growing finance functions at Philippine corporates, MNCs, and the BPO/shared services hubs expanding across Metro Manila and Cebu. This section prepares you to go beyond reporting and become the person who explains what the numbers mean and what to do next.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build financial forecasts that support planning cycles and strategic decisions

  • Monitor results, identify the key drivers behind changes in revenue, costs, and profitability, and communicate them clearly

  • Translate financial data into insights that give management what they need to act

Excel

Excel proficiency is a baseline expectation for finance roles across the Philippines. This section takes you from functional to fast, the level where hiring managers start to take notice.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Work faster and more accurately using keyboard shortcuts and efficient workflows

  • Conduct data analysis using pivot tables, data tables, and the functions finance teams rely on most

  • Build advanced formulas and functions that make your models more dynamic and easier to audit

Data Visualization

In the Philippines’ competitive finance job market, the ability to turn complex analysis into clear, decision-ready outputs sets you apart. This section teaches you to present your work so it reaches the right people.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build professional dashboards and charts that surface the key drivers instead of overwhelming the reader with data

  • Present financial analysis in a format that supports investment and business decisions at every level

  • Design reports and presentations that make trends, risks, and valuation insights easy to act on

Qualitative Business Analysis

The strongest models are built on a clear understanding of the business behind the numbers. This section gives you the context to make your models sharper and your recommendations more credible, a skill that matters whether you’re analyzing a Philippine conglomerate, a bank regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), or a global MNC.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Assess industry trends, competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic factors that affect how a business performs

  • Bring strategic and operational context into your models so your assumptions are grounded in reality

  • Evaluate business risks and opportunities in a way that strengthens both your analysis and your point of view

Financial Modeling

35%

Competitive finance roles, whether at a Philippine or multinational corporation, shared services center, or investment firm, expect you to build models, not just read them. Financial modeling courses teach you to construct the financial models that analysts, investors, and managers rely on to make informed decisions.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build a dynamic, logically structured three-statement model with clear assumptions and outputs that managers can review and trust

  • Create multi-year forecasts across the income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet

  • Run scenario and sensitivity analyses so you can show what happens to the numbers when conditions change

Accounting

20%

Strong accounting fundamentals are the foundation of every credible financial model and analysis. This section ensures you understand what’s driving the numbers, not just how to report them.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Read and interpret financial statements with confidence, understanding how each component connects to the others

  • Apply the accounting principles that underpin the standards that financial analysts often encounter

  • Understand how accounting decisions affect your models and the outputs that follow from them

Valuation

15%

Valuation is among the most in-demand skills across investment banking, private equity, and corporate finance globally and in the Philippines. This section teaches you how to determine a company’s value and defend that view with data.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Understand the main valuation methodologies, when to use each, and the tradeoffs between them

  • Build comparable company and precedent transaction analyses from real data

  • Construct a DCF model in Excel and calculate the weighted average cost of capital

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

10%

FP&A is one of the fastest-growing finance functions at Philippine corporates, MNCs, and the BPO/shared services hubs expanding across Metro Manila and Cebu. This section prepares you to go beyond reporting and become the person who explains what the numbers mean and what to do next.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build financial forecasts that support planning cycles and strategic decisions

  • Monitor results, identify the key drivers behind changes in revenue, costs, and profitability, and communicate them clearly

  • Translate financial data into insights that give management what they need to act

Excel

8%

Excel proficiency is a baseline expectation for finance roles across the Philippines. This section takes you from functional to fast, the level where hiring managers start to take notice.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Work faster and more accurately using keyboard shortcuts and efficient workflows

  • Conduct data analysis using pivot tables, data tables, and the functions finance teams rely on most

  • Build advanced formulas and functions that make your models more dynamic and easier to audit

Data Visualization

7%

In the Philippines’ competitive finance job market, the ability to turn complex analysis into clear, decision-ready outputs sets you apart. This section teaches you to present your work so it reaches the right people.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Build professional dashboards and charts that surface the key drivers instead of overwhelming the reader with data

  • Present financial analysis in a format that supports investment and business decisions at every level

  • Design reports and presentations that make trends, risks, and valuation insights easy to act on

Qualitative Business Analysis

5%

The strongest models are built on a clear understanding of the business behind the numbers. This section gives you the context to make your models sharper and your recommendations more credible, a skill that matters whether you’re analyzing a Philippine conglomerate, a bank regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), or a global MNC.

Skills You’ll Learn

  • Assess industry trends, competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic factors that affect how a business performs

  • Bring strategic and operational context into your models so your assumptions are grounded in reality

  • Evaluate business risks and opportunities in a way that strengthens both your analysis and your point of view

Step 1 Optional

Prep Courses

Show Prep Courses

Choose from 9 optional courses to learn or review the fundamentals.

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Excel Fundamentals - Quick Start Guide
3h 30min
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Excel Fundamentals - Formulas for Finance
3h 30min
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Accounting Fundamentals
5h
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Reading Financial Statements
2h
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Corporate Finance Fundamentals
2h 30min
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Math for Finance Professionals
3h
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Workflow Best Practice for Analysts
1h 30min
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The Role of The FP&A Professional
1h 30min
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AI for Finance Workflows & Governance
2h
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Step 2

Core Courses

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Complete 15 required core courses to build your skill set in financial modeling & valuation analyst.

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Financial Analysis Fundamentals
5h
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Financial Modeling Guidelines
3h
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Introduction to 3-Statement Modeling
6h
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3-Statement Modeling
6h 30min
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Auditing and Balancing a 3-Statement Model
2h 30min
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Operational Modeling
8h
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Introduction to Business Valuation
6h 30min
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DCF Valuation Modeling Fundamentals
2h
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Applied DCF Valuation Modeling
7h
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Comparable Valuation Fundamentals
2h
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Forecasting Techniques
1h 30min
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Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis in Excel
1h 30min
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Excel Data Visualization and Dashboards
3h
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PowerPoint & Pitchbooks
4h 30min
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Professional Ethics
1h
Hide Core Courses
Step 3

Elective Courses

Show Electives Courses

Choose a minimum of 3 electives (out of 12 available) to master more advanced topics and specialized areas.

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Monthly Cash Flow Modeling
3h
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Advanced Excel Formulas & Functions
4h 30min
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Comparable Valuation Analysis
4h 30min
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Mining Financial Model & Valuation
5h
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Startup / e-Commerce Financial Model & Valuation
6h 30min
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Corporate & Business Strategy
7h 30min
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Introduction to Bank Valuation
4h
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Normalizing Income Statements
2h
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Real Estate Financial Modeling
6h 30min
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Communication and Presentation Skills for Finance Professionals
2h
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Strategic Problem Solving
2h 30min
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Sell-Side Equity Research
4h
Show Electives Courses
Step 4 Optional

Case Study Challenges

Show Challenges

These case study challenges allow you to apply your knowledge and skills by solving real-world problems.

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Renewable Energy - Solar Financial Modeling
6h 30min
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Using IBISWorld to Analyze and Benchmark a Business
1h 30min
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AI Prompting for Financial Analysis
1h
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AI-Assisted Peer Group Selection
1h
View
Drafting a 3-Statement Model with AI
1h
View
Formatting a 3-Statement Model with AI
1h
View
Tesla Earnings Analysis - A Sell-Side Research Case Study
1h 30min
Show Challenges
Step 5

Final Exam

After completing the required courses, take the final exam (with a minimum passing grade of 70%) to earn your program certification.

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Get FMVA® Certified

Congratulations on becoming a certified Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst! Upon completion of the program, you will receive a blockchain digital certificate with your new credentials.

As a CFA Charterholder who put a good 900 hours into that designation, I found just as much value in your FMVA® program.

In all honesty, as a CFA Charterholder who put a good 900 hours into that designation, I found just as much value in your FMVA® program. This designation only took me about 60-70 hours to complete. What I like about the approach is that it's very practical for the workplace as opposed to just pure theory. I also appreciate CFI focusing internationally and giving a financial break to those who are struggling to afford it.

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Chris Caldwell, FMVA®
Director, Treasury

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