Financial Modelling Services
A financial model is not a spreadsheet exercise. It is the document your board, your lender or your investor will use to decide whether to commit capital. We build models that survive that scrutiny, because the people building them have sat on the other side of the table.
What You Get
Every engagement produces a working model, not a static output.
The Value Core builds three-statement, project finance, LBO, valuation and operating models for companies raising capital, servicing debt, acquiring businesses or planning growth. We work across Pakistan, the GCC, the UK, the US and Canada, and we are used to markets where the standard Western template quietly breaks.
A live Excel model
Yours outright, with no locked cells, hidden sheets or dependency on us to run it.
Full documentation
Every assumption recorded with its source, and inputs kept separate from calculations.
Scenario and sensitivity layers
So you can answer the question your investor actually asks, in the meeting, rather than afterwards.
A walkthrough session
With your finance team, so the model is understood rather than just delivered.
Thirty days of support
For questions and adjustments as your discussions progress.
Models are built to recognised structural standards: inputs, calculations and outputs separated; consistent formulas across every projection period; colour-coded cells; and an error-check sheet that flags a broken balance sheet before your investor does.
Our Capabilities
The models we build
Three-statement operating models
Integrated income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, driven by operating assumptions rather than hardcoded growth rates. The foundation for almost everything else.
LBO and acquisition models
Sources and uses, debt structuring across tranches, returns attribution, and the sensitivity work that tells you where the deal actually breaks.
Valuation models
DCF, comparable company and precedent transaction analysis, with the cost-of-capital work done properly rather than lifted from a US-default assumption set.
Where Templates Break
Why emerging-market experience matters
Most financial modelling content is written for a company operating in a single stable currency, with reliable historical data, predictable inflation and a functioning corporate bond market to anchor a discount rate.
If you are operating in Pakistan, the Gulf, Africa or South Asia, none of that holds. Currency moves that would be a footnote elsewhere reprice your entire debt service. Working capital cycles stretch in ways your model's default assumptions do not anticipate. Country risk premium is a real input requiring judgement, not a lookup. Historical data is patchy and needs reconstructing before it can be projected.
We build models that handle this explicitly rather than papering over it: multi-currency structures with the translation mechanics visible, separate inflation assumptions by cost line, and cost-of-capital derivations that are defensible to an international investor rather than borrowed from a US template.
That capability is also why we are useful to US and UK companies with operations in these markets. Your model needs to consolidate a subsidiary whose economics do not behave like the parent's, and most providers have never built one.
How We Engage
Our Process
Scoping call
No charge. We establish what the model is for, who will read it, what decision it supports, and what data exists. Most of the value is decided here, not in the build.
Data and assumptions
We send a structured request, then work through the assumptions with you. Where we disagree with a number, we say so and record both views. You sign off before we build.
Build
Two to four weeks, depending on complexity. You see the model at the halfway point so direction can be corrected early rather than at delivery.
Review and stress test
We run our own error-check and stress-test pass before you see the final version, including a deliberate attempt to break the model.
Handover
Walkthrough session, documentation, and thirty days of support.
Indicative Pricing
What it costs
We publish indicative pricing because you should be able to budget before a sales call.
| Engagement | Indicative fee | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Financial model build | From $5,000, typically $5,000 to $20,000 | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Model review and remediation | $2,000 to $5,000 | 3 to 6 business days |
What moves a build up that range: the number of entities or currencies to consolidate, whether historical data needs reconstructing, debt structure complexity, and the number of scenarios required. Project finance and LBO models sit toward the upper end. A single-entity operating model sits toward the lower end.
We scope and quote a fixed fee before starting. We do not bill hourly for model builds, because that gives us an incentive that is not aligned with yours.
Read the full cost breakdownWho We Work With
Who the models are for
Growth companies raising institutional capital. Private equity firms modelling acquisitions and monitoring portfolio companies. Corporates planning capital expenditure or restructuring debt. Family businesses professionalising their finance function ahead of a transaction or a generational handover.
The Value Core's team has advised organisations including PepsiCo Saudi Arabia, Petromin, Careem, Engro Corporation and Lucky Core Industries across a range of corporate finance engagements.
An Honest Comparison
Why not a Big 4 firm
An honest answer: sometimes you should use one. If you need a name on the cover page for a regulator, a court or a public-market transaction, engage a Big 4 firm.
For everything else, the trade is straightforward. You will pay several times more, the work will largely be done by someone two years out of university, and the partner whose name is on the engagement letter will be present at the kickoff and the closing meeting.
Our team is drawn from that same background. The difference is that the person you meet is the person who builds your model, we can start in days rather than weeks, and the fee reflects a mid-market ticket rather than a Big 4 cost base.
Common Questions
FAQ
Start with a scoping call
Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation. We will tell you what the model needs to do, roughly what it will cost, and whether we are the right people to build it. If we are not, we will say so.