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“I often get the comments that, had the delegate known about this before it would have saved them weeks of work”
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David Theron | Terrapinn Trainer
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David Theron is training on: 5 day MBA in Financial modelling |
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What is your background?
I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1965. After which I worked for various organizations an Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Controller and Financial Director
How did you get into training?
I first got into Financial Modelling way back in 1971 when (when the word modelling was unknown!) building a model for Mazda SA. In those days the medium of input into the computer was punched cards, each card representing a letter or number. These cards had to be fed into a mainframe computer the size of a netball field and processed. The Mazda model would take 3 hours to feed in the cards, and 3 hours for the computer to process (to run the model). Doing a "what-if" meant finding the card by wading through the pack of 40000 cards, identifying the card by its series of punched holes!
Finding the building of models far more rewarding than producing monthly reports, this became my passion, fueled by the fact that, as technology improved, the actual building of models became easier. That 40000 card model nowadays would probably take 10 seconds with Excel.
Believing, way back then, that there was a need for modelling in all businesses, I set about creating modelling courses from my experiences and training companies in the use and building thereof. A lot of missionary work was required!
What is your favourite course that you love to teach?
Financial modelling
What training experience are you most proud of?
Really all training experience is rewarding, and I often get the comments that, had the delegate "known about this before" it would have saved them weeks of work. I really enjoy that aspect of my job.
What makes you unique?
The fact that the courses have been developed from my practical experience in the work place which means I understand the challenges my participants face and can provide real solutions to them.
Why are you passionate about training?It is rewarding to see people benefiting from your input.
What else inspires / drives you / are you passionate about (when you’re not training)?
In my leisure time, it is loading up my 4x4 with all the water, food & fuel necessary and heading out to really remote places in the African bush for a few weeks of camping in the wild!
Dave Theron is an internationally-renowned Chartered Accountant who has more than three decades’ of practical experience in corporate financial modelling. Dave has coached over 3,000 successful executives. He served articles with KPMG and worked with the firm in London and South Africa.
Dave has been instrumental in building and developing a wide variety of financial models. Dave currently presents courses on financial modelling in London, the Middle East, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has presented many in-house corporate financial modelling courses for clients such as the Kuwait Investment Authority, Queensland Competition Authority, Brunei Investment Authority, Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, KPMG and Deloitte. He has also lectured at the Wits Business School, and acted as external examiner in the Department of Commerce at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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