Castaway Cloud Webinars – Register here…
Our team will regularly deliver webinars on topics ranging from “Introduction to Castaway Cloud” to “Getting Started with Castaway Cloud”. We will deliver webinars on fundamental topics and and even some specialist modeling webinars, focused on the more advanced user.
Please check in regularly to see what we have coming up.
March 2025
Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [UK]
Date & Time
Monday 17 March 25
8:30am GMT (London/ Dublin)
7:30pmAEDT (Sydney)
4:30pmAWST (Perth)
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April 2025
Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud Baseline Training [AU/ NZ]
An introductory course that takes people through the major stages of building, maintaining and delivering a Castaway model. Ideally, everyone who uses Castaway Cloud will attend this training, even those very experienced with Castaway Desktop.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Describe what Castaway is
* Understand (at a high level), how Castaway works and what it can do
* Follow the Castaway BUILD process to build a simple forecast
* Decide the best workflows for their circumstances (Build, Maintain or Report)
Date & Time
Monday 7 April 25
10:30am AWST
12:30pm AEST
2:30pm NZST
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud Baseline Training [UK]
An introductory course that takes people through the major stages of building, maintaining and delivering a Castaway model. Ideally, everyone who uses Castaway Cloud will attend this training, even those very experienced with Castaway Desktop.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Describe what Castaway is
* Understand (at a high level), how Castaway works and what it can do
* Follow the Castaway BUILD process to build a simple forecast
* Decide the best workflows for their circumstances (Build, Maintain or Report)
Date & Time
Monday 7 April 25
8:30am BST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
Questions to:
Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [AU/ NZ]
Date & Time
Wednesday 9 April 25
12:30pmAEST (Sydney)
2:30pmNZST (Auckland)
10:30amAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [UK]
Date & Time
Wednesday 9 April 25
8:30am BST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud BUILD Training [AU/ NZ]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people into the detail of building effective Castaway models. The audience is any user who needs to BUILD forecasts. Attendees should have attended BASELINE training as a pre-requisite.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Plan a forecast BUILD
* Decide the fastest, most effective workflows for building the model
* Make informed decisions on element type
* Use element settings to fine-tune their Chart of Accounts.
Date & Time
Monday 14 April 25
10:30am AWST
12:30pm AEST
2:30pm NZST
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud BUILD Training [UK]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people into the detail of building effective Castaway models. The audience is any user who needs to BUILD forecasts. Attendees should have attended BASELINE training as a pre-requisite.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Plan a forecast BUILD
* Decide the fastest, most effective workflows for building the model
* Make informed decisions on element type
* Use element settings to fine-tune their Chart of Accounts.
Date & Time
Monday 14 April 25
8:30am BST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [AU/ NZ]
Date & Time
Wednesday 23 April 25
12:30pmAEST (Sydney)
2:30pmNZST (Auckland)
10:30amAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [UK]
Date & Time
Wednesday 23 April 25
8:30amBST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud MAINTAIN Training [AU/ NZ]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people through the essential knowledge and workflows for them to be highly effective in MAINTAINing Castaway files. Attendees should have attended BASELINE training as a pre-requisite.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Change the Actuals month
* Import data into Castaway from external sources
* Be familiar with Mapping and re-mapping decisions
* Trace and resolve OOB issues with the imported data
* Review the reported numbers and identify issues
* Update projected figures manually
* Work with the Upload Forecast Data template
* Update Budgets & Forecasts
* Prepare Reports & Storyboards
Date & Time
Monday 28 April 25
10:30am AWST
12:30pm AEST
2:30pm NZST
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud MAINTAIN Training [UK]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people through the essential knowledge and workflows for them to be highly effective in MAINTAINing Castaway files. Attendees should have attended BASELINE training as a pre-requisite.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Change the Actuals month
* Import data into Castaway from external sources
* Be familiar with Mapping and re-mapping decisions
* Trace and resolve OOB issues with the imported data
* Review the reported numbers and identify issues
* Update projected figures manually
* Work with the Upload Forecast Data template
* Update Budgets & Forecasts
* Prepare Reports & Storyboards
Date & Time
Monday 28 April 25
8:30amBST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
Questions to:
May 2025
Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud DELIVER Training [AU/ NZ]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people through the essential knowledge and workflows for them to confidently take responsibility for a file. These users will need to DELIVER/ present a forecast to a client, explain it, defend it and provide advice based on it to a client/ external financier/ stakeholder etc. The course assumes users have completed BASELINE training, but have not been deeply involved (necessarily) in building or maintaining the file.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Identify key assumptions
* Explain the numbers on reports
* Understand how to adjust the forecast
* Efficiently review a forecast to understand how it has been built
* Be confident about presenting, explaining and working with the forecast
* Apply effective techniques for stress-testing, what-ifs and scenario analysis to the forecast
Date & Time
Monday 5 May 25
10:30am AWST
12:30pm AEST
2:30pm NZST
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Webinar Topic
Castaway Cloud DELIVER Training [UK]
A more advanced introductory course that takes people through the essential knowledge and workflows for them to confidently take responsibility for a file. These users will need to DELIVER/ present a forecast to a client, explain it, defend it and provide advice based on it to a client/ external financier/ stakeholder etc. The course assumes users have completed BASELINE training, but have not been deeply involved (necessarily) in building or maintaining the file.
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
* Identify key assumptions
* Explain the numbers on reports
* Understand how to adjust the forecast
* Efficiently review a forecast to understand how it has been built
* Be confident about presenting, explaining and working with the forecast
* Apply effective techniques for stress-testing, what-ifs and scenario analysis to the forecast
Date & Time
Monday 12 May 25
8:30am BST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [AU/ NZ]
Date & Time
Wednesday 7 May 25
12:30pmAEST (Sydney)
2:30pmNZST (Auckland)
10:30amAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
Introduction to Castaway Cloud [UK]
Date & Time
Wednesday 7 May 25
8:30amBST (London/ Dublin)
5:30pmAEST (Sydney)
3:30pmAWST (Perth)
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JUNE 2025
JULY 2025
Webinar Topic
♦♦♦ Quarterly Update & News ♦♦♦ [AU/ NZ]
Date & Time
Tuesday 1 July 25
12:30pmAEST (Sydney/ Brisbane/ Canberra)
2:30pmNZST (NZ)
12noonACST (Adelaide/ Darwin)
10:30pmAWST (Perth)
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♦♦♦ Quarterly Update & News ♦♦♦ [UK]
Date & Time
Tuesday 1 July 25
9:00amBST (London)
6:00pmAEST (Sydney)
4:00pmAWST (Perth)
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AUGUST 2025
SEPTEMBER 2025
OCTOBER 2025
Webinar Topic
♦♦♦ Quarterly Update & News ♦♦♦ [AU/ NZ]
Date & Time
Wednesday 1 Oct 25
12:30pmAEST (Sydney/ Brisbane/ Canberra)
2:30pmNZST (NZ)
12noonACST (Adelaide/ Darwin)
10:30pmAWST (Perth)
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Webinar Topic
♦♦♦ Quarterly Update & News ♦♦♦ [UK]
Date & Time
Wednesday 1 Oct 25
9:00amBST (London)
6:00pmAEST (Sydney)
4:00pmAWST (Perth)
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