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Credit Analysis Training

This course will look into the skills needed to understand how and when you should look to provide products into the corporate market.


CREDIT ANALYSIS TRAINING COURSE - DURATION 5 DAYS

This 5 day course will enable participants to understand the clients and their business and help the bank and their customers manage portfolios. Among the areas covered will be:
  • Understanding the Client needs
  • Understanding the product
  • Understanding the sector
  • Balance Sheet interpretation
  • Profit & Loss Cash flow forecasts
  • Sensitivities
  • Management accounts
  • Bank account activity
  • Business Planning
  • Lending Principles
  • Structured Lending
  • Internal policy including sector risk
  • Shared risk
  • Risk mitigation
  • Risk Reward
  • Technology
  • Security

Learning Objectives
This programme is designed primarily for existing practitioners and new entrants into the market and will look to emphasise and build on existing skills and for new entrants equip them with some of the skills that they will need if they are to successfully work with their client base and enable them to continue to grow the success of their employer banks.

Who Should Attend

  • Corporate Managers
  • Risk Managers
  • Those in need of analytical skills

Methodology
The learning format is to adopt a mixture of structured lectures, delegate discussions and practical role play exercises. Active debate is encouraged at all times to ensure that delegates are able to gain the maximum benefit from the course. The role play exercises will enable the delegates to work with each other and develop and demonstrate the knowledge gained.

Knowledge Pre-Requisites
Whilst some knowledge of the marketplace would be beneficial, the course will include some refreshing of knowledge including outlining the market and clients and therefore there will be an element of covering some basic concepts. Given the focus on the practical it is important for delegates to contribute to the course to ensure that all delegates achieve the maximum value from the event.

Course Contents

Day 1: Getting Closer to the Business….

Session 1: Understanding the Client:

  • Background
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Commitment

Session 2: Understanding the product

  • Experience/ hobby
  • Customer knowledge
  • Bank knowledge
  • Research

Case Study 1: You have the opportunity to acquire a new business client who is involved in leading edge IT products, what questions might you ask and what research should you do?

Case Study 2: You are new to your position in your office and you are approached by an existing client involved in the construction sector looking to undertake a new development, what might you do before any meeting with the client and what questions might you ask during your first meeting

Case Study 3: Consider both of the above case studies and look and where the best place to meet the client might be and why.

Day 2: Getting closer to the figures:

Session 1: Balance sheet interpretation:

  • What does it mean?
  • How can this help?
  • What to look for

Case Study 4: Thinking back to Case Study 1, during the course of your discussions you are presented with an inception balance sheet (will be provided during the course) which shows a negative position How do you feel about this and what questions might you ask?

Case Study 5: Thinking back to case study 2, your customer has produced the annual accounts (will be provided during the course) which shows healthy and growing retained profit in the business. What comfort if any do you derive from this and how may it affect your decision?

Case Study 6: Thinking back to Case Study 2, your customer has produced the annual accounts (will be provided during the course) which show a significant loss having been made during the last year with retained profit in the business having disappeared and a the overall position now being negative, How do you feel about this and what questions might you ask?

Session 2: Profit & Loss & Cash flow Forecasts;

  • Why do you want them?
  • What are you looking to see?
  • On what basis should they be produced?
  • How much reliance should you place on them?

Case Study 7: Thinking back to Case Study 1, this new customer has full projections for his business going out 3 years (will be provided during the course), how would you analyse them and what questions might you ask?

Case Study 8: Thinking back to Case Study 2, as a long standing customers your client sees no benefit to the business in producing forecasts and believes you should rely on past track record, how do you feel about that and how would you persuade the client to change the stance adopted?

Session 3: Sensitivities

  • Believe number as presented?
  • Parameters for sensitivities
  • Convincing the customer of the results

Case Study 9: Reverting again to Case Study 1, what might you look at to determine the sensitivities to be used? How would you handle the outcomes with the client?

Case Study 10: Reverting again to Case Study 2, what might you look at to determine the sensitivities to be used? How would you handle the outcomes with the client?

Day 3: Getting a fuller picture

Session 1: Management accounts

  • What are they?
  • Why do we want them?
  • How often/when do we want them?
  • What should they tell us?
  • Key Performance Indicators.

Case Study 1: Looking at case study 1 again, assuming that you have agreed form of support package what information would you require from the client how frequently and when would you expect to receive it? What would you do with the information when it is received?

Case Study 12: Looking at Case Study 2, again, assuming that you have agreed form of support package what information would you require from the client how frequently and when would you expect to receive it? What would you do with the information when it is received?

Session 2: Bank account activity

  • Why is this important
  • What does it tell us?
  • What should you compare it with
  • Do you have everything?

Case Study 13: Once again think about Case Study 1, in this case management figures have been produced which show a very healthy position and yet the bank account shows a position that is out of order why might that be and what questions should you ask of the client?

Session 3 Business Planning

  • Who wants a plan?
  • What should be in it?
  • What is it for?
  • How long should it be?

Case Study 15: Reluctantly, and after some persuasion from you, the client in Case Study 2 has produced a full Business Pan (will be provided during the course) how might this help/hinder you in making a decision?

Day 4: How do you lend

Session 1: Lending Principles

  • How much?
  • What for?
  • Repayment?
  • Rules & Regulations
  • Documentation

Session 2: Structured Lending

  • Simple structure
  • Cashflow lending
  • Asset based

Session 3: Internal policy including sector risk

  • Sector exposure
  • Lending limits

Session 4: Shared risk

  • Who’s risk?
  • Bank
  • Customer

Case Study 16: Turning again to Case Study 1, having examined the Business Plan and asked numerous questions, how would you approach a lending for this potential client? What structure might you put in place, if any, to help protect your bank’s position?

Case Study 17: Turning again to Case Study 2, having examined the Business Plan and asked numerous questions, how would you approach a lending for this potential client? What structure might you put in place, if any, to help protect your bank’s position?

Day 5: Comfort Factors

Session 1: Risk Mitigation

  • Lending principles
  • Covenants
  • Monitoring
  • Debt Sales
  • Should banks take risks?

Case Study 18: Looking once more at Case Study 1 how do you believe you can help mitigate the risk to your bank?

Case Study 19: Looking once more at Case Study 2 how do you believe you can help mitigate the risk to your bank?

Session 2: Risk Reward

  • Margin
  • Competition
  • Frees

Session 3: Technology

  • Monitoring systems

Session 4: Security

  • Why?
  • Value?
  • Procedures
  • Monitoring

Case Study 20: Taking one last look at case study 1, what if any security would you look for when agreeing to this lending? Would you lend on an unsecured basis?

Case Study 21: Taking one last look at case study 1, what if any security would you look for when agreeing to this lending? Would you lend on an unsecured basis?

Session 5: Review of Course:

  • Getting closer to the business
  • Getting closer to the figures
  • Getting a fuller picture
  • How do you lend
  • Comfort factors

State of the art facilities
Delegates can study in our comfortable hi-tech learning environment in London, near Liverpool Street Station.

Credit Analysis

Course Venue: London EC2

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