Corporate Financial Risk Management

Understand the major financial risks facing a multinational company

Who will benefit from this course? 
Bank corporate sales and relationship management staff
Graduate recruits in Treasury and Accounting departments
Non-executive directors
Auditors responsible for treasury
Compliance staff
Corporate sales staff
Investment managers investing in companies

The type of organisations that will benefit from this course 
Multinational companies (MNCs)
Banks that provide products and services to MNCs
Housing Associations and Building Societies
Private equity and Institutional investors with a focus on corporates

The objective of the course 
To provide an overview of the major financial risks facing a multinational company (interest rate, currency, credit, liquidity, and operational) and the issues involved to effectively manage them.  The course will also discuss the causes and lessons of the global financial crisis.

What you will gain from this course 
An understanding of the various financial and operational risks a company faces and how they can be effectively managed.  This understanding will enable you to deal confidently with finance professionals and assess the potential impact of external and internal financial risks on the value of your company.

The minimum knowledge expected of each delegate 
No prior knowledge.  The course is intended to be an introduction to many important aspects of financial risk management, though some aspects will provide a foundation for more advanced analysis later on.

Programme Contents

1  Treasury department
    - Organisation
    - Policies
    - Form and function
2  Fundamental concepts in finance
3  Foreign Exchange
    - The global financial crisis
    - FX quotes
    - Types of currency risk
    - Managing transaction risk
    - Currency options
    - Currency transaction risk management  
4  Interest Rate Risk management
5  Bank facility and bank relationship management
6  Long term debt finance
7  Cashflow forecasting
8  Trade finance
9  Time value of money
    - Appraisals and valuation
    - International financing appraisals
10 Differences between debt and equity
    - impact of debt on financial risk
11 Capital structure
    - tax shield
12 Issuing equity
13 Company’s cost of capital
14 Course summary and conclusion

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