Research Resources

AI Governance Policy Template

A finance function's internal AI governance policy needs a consistent structure connecting scope and ownership, technique-task matching, verification checkpoints, the AI risk register, and a defined review cadence. This template sets out that structure section by section, so a policy is concrete and operational rather than a general statement of principle disconnected from how AI is actually used day to day.

Bank Financial Model Template

This template sets out how a bank financial model should be structured as a standalone, auditable schedule: a segmented balance sheet forecast (loan and deposit volumes by segment), an interest income and net interest margin bridge module, a credit loss provisioning schedule tied to the allowance roll-forward, and a capital adequacy block calculating risk-weighted assets and capital ratios live from the preceding modules, following the build methodology across this domain's Wave 1 and Wave 2 technical guides. It is a structural template, not a source of specific volume, rate, or loss-rate assumptions, which must be sourced for each specific institution.

Board Model Risk Reporting Template

A board does not need, and should not receive, a formula level walkthrough of every model an organisation relies on. It needs a clear, aggregated view of where model risk sits across the portfolio, which models carry the most exposure, and whether governance is actually functioning as designed. This template shows how to structure that reporting, tiered by materiality, so a board can exercise real oversight without being buried in detail that belongs at the audit report level, not the board level.

Capital Renewal Reserve Funding Model Template

A capital renewal reserve is only as reliable as the model behind it. This template sets out the structural components a renewal reserve funding model needs, the renewal cost curve input, contribution sizing logic, the period-by-period roll-forward, and a forward-looking adequacy test, so an asset owner can build and monitor a reserve genuinely capable of meeting scheduled renewal obligations rather than one that only looks adequate against its current historical balance.

Climate Investment Model Template

A climate investment financial model needs a consistent structure connecting capital layering, additionality and MRV, and carbon and climate risk exposure through to a fully supportable return waterfall. This template sets out that structure section by section, so a model is driver-decomposed and traceable rather than built around a single blended internal rate of return that obscures which capital layer and which risk exposure is actually responsible for a given result.

Data Centre Financial Model Template

A data centre financial model needs a consistent structure connecting capacity constraints, revenue drivers, and power and cooling cost through to a fully supportable cash flow forecast. This template sets out that structure section by section, so a model is driver-decomposed and traceable rather than built around blended assumptions that obscure which driver is responsible for a given result.

Deterministic vs Generative Audit: A Methodology Whitepaper

Deterministic audit and generative AI review are frequently described as competing options within a single category, AI powered model checking, when they are better understood as two different disciplines with different guarantees. This whitepaper is a longer research treatment of that distinction, going beyond the side-by-side comparison on the Deterministic Audit vs Generative AI Review page to examine why repeatability, explainability, and systematic coverage are design properties, not incidental features, and what that implies for how each approach should and should not be used.

Development Appraisal Model Template

This template sets out how a real estate development appraisal should be structured as a standalone, auditable schedule: a labelled GDV build (unit or phase-level pricing and absorption), a labelled cost and drawdown schedule, a finance module (debt, equity, interest during construction), and a residual land value or returns output calculated live from the preceding modules, following the build methodology in Development Appraisal Model Structure. It is a structural template, not a source of specific pricing, cost, or financing assumptions, which must be sourced for each specific transaction.

Due Diligence Report Structure Template

Individual due diligence workstream reports are frequently produced by different advisory firms, each with its own house format, making it difficult for a deal team to consolidate findings consistently across the full transaction. This template sets out a common report structure any workstream can follow, built around the same finding-to-resolution discipline used throughout this Knowledge Centre, so every workstream's output feeds the deal team's consolidated risk register in a consistent, comparable form.

Financial Model Audit Report Template

A financial model audit is only as useful as the report that documents it. This template sets out the standard structure of a financial model audit report or findings log, so a reader, a lender, an investment committee, a board, can understand what was tested, what was found, how severe each finding is, and what evidence supports it, without having to interpret an inconsistent or ad hoc document. It is designed to be copied directly into a working report, not downloaded as a file.

Financial Model Risk Register Template

Due diligence findings across a transaction's workstreams are frequently tracked in separate, siloed logs, one per workstream, with no single place showing whether each finding has actually reached a resolution. This template consolidates every finding — structural model risk and business/commercial risk alike — into a single register, tracking each through to one of three defined resolution outcomes, so nothing surfaced during diligence is silently lost between the workstream report and the final transaction terms.

GCC Lender Requirements Reference Guide

Lenders financing infrastructure, project finance, and real estate transactions across GCC markets frequently request some form of independent model verification as part of due diligence. There is no single consolidated public source for these requirements, and this guide is not a statement of any specific institution's or regulator's requirements. It summarises commonly observed market practice, drawn from the general pattern of project finance model audit requirements described on the Project Finance Model Audit pillar page, and is explicit throughout about where practice varies materially by lender, jurisdiction, and deal type.

Healthcare Provider Financial Model Template

A healthcare provider financial model needs a consistent structure connecting volume, case mix, and payer mix assumptions through the revenue cycle to net patient service revenue, and connecting clinical activity to staffing and cost. This template sets out that structure section by section, so a provider produces a model that is driver-decomposed and traceable rather than built around blended assumptions that obscure which driver is responsible for a given result.

Infrastructure Asset Management Plan Template

An asset management plan needs a consistent structure connecting the underlying asset register and condition data to a funded renewal forecast and a defensible capital replacement prioritisation. This template sets out that structure section by section, so an asset owner produces a plan that is bottom-up, traceable, and disaggregated enough to surface a concentrated funding gap rather than hide it in a portfolio-wide average.

Investment Committee Memo Template

An investment committee memo usually covers the deal thesis, the commercial case, and the numbers. What it frequently omits is a clear, separate answer to a different question, has the model producing those numbers actually been independently checked. This template shows how to fold financial model audit findings into a committee memo as a distinct section, so the committee can see the deal case and the model risk case side by side, rather than the model risk question being silently absorbed into the headline numbers.

Model Governance Policy Template

Most organisations that rely on financial models for material decisions have never written down their model governance policy, which means the policy exists only informally, in whoever happens to remember how things are usually done. This template sets out the structure of a written model governance policy, scaled to fit an organisation that is not a large regulated bank, covering the model inventory, tiering framework, review cadence, and sign-off authority a working policy needs to actually function.

Model Risk Scoring Framework Whitepaper

A model risk score is only useful if it means the same thing every time it is produced, comparable across models, stable across auditors, and traceable back to specific findings. This whitepaper sets out a methodology for scoring model risk systematically, built on two independent dimensions, the severity of structural findings and the materiality of the model to the decision it supports, and explains why collapsing those two dimensions into a single undifferentiated score produces a less useful, less defensible result.

Oil & Gas Project Model Template

A bankable oil and gas asset or project financial model needs a consistent structure connecting its reserve and decline basis, fiscal regime waterfall, contracted revenue mechanics, and decommissioning provisioning. This template sets out that structure section by section, so a model is built with each sector-specific mechanic represented explicitly rather than collapsed into generic corporate model assumptions.

Power Project Financial Model Template

This template sets out how a power generation financial model should be structured as a standalone, auditable schedule: a technical output module (resource yield, degradation, curtailment, availability), a decomposed revenue stack (contracted, capacity, merchant), an O&M cost build split into fixed and variable components with an explicit major maintenance reserve, and debt sculpting referencing the conservative technical case, following the build methodology across this domain's technical guides. It is a structural template, not a source of specific resource, cost, or price assumptions, which must be sourced for each specific project and technology.

Project Finance Model Audit Whitepaper

Project finance models are structurally distinct from standard corporate models, and the risks they carry cluster around a small number of recurring mechanics, debt sculpting, deliberate circularity, and multi tier cash waterfalls. This whitepaper is a deeper research treatment of why these specific mechanics are so error prone, how they tend to fail in practice, and what a specialised audit methodology needs to test that a general purpose model review does not. It complements, rather than repeats, the practical overview on the Project Finance Model Audit pillar page.