Overview
What you will study
The Financial Modelling For Utility Tariff Setting course offered by University of Cape Town gives managers, senior professionals and advisors in utilities, regulatory authorities and government the skills needed to set tariffs in a regulated context.
The course provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of a tariff-setting financial model. It teaches delegates to build a financial model that can run sensitivity analyses and provide various tariff paths.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- An optional module on basic financial concepts and basic Excel financial formulas
- Tariff objectives
- Cash flow and accounting equivalence: Building a simple model from scratch
- Valuation techniques
- Capital costs: Asset base, capex, depreciations
- Endogenous and exogenous capex
- Costs of capital: WACC, costs of debt, costs of equity
- Opex: efficiency levels, benchmarking, demand projections
- Fixed and variable costs
- Tariff level and tariff structure, efficiency and affordability
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Finance View 22 other Short Courses in Finance in South AfricaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Manager or senior professional in a utility, a regulatory authority or government
- Utility Board member
- Professional in the power sector
- Manager or senior professional in a utility, a regulatory authority or government
Tuition Fee
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International
28950 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 28950 ZAR for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
28950 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 28950 ZAR for the full programme during 5 days.
- Cape Town: R28 950
- Live Online: R14 950
Living costs for Cape Town
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.