Corporate Credit Risk: Building a Corporate Credit Risk Model from First Principles

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This “Corporate Credit Risk: Building a Corporate Credit Risk Model from First Principles” course teaches the techniques of good modelling practice.

Participants will learn how a business is financed efficiently and evaluate sustainable levels of growth, investment and borrowing.

Suitability

This is a foundation course for Graduate Entrants with a basic knowledge of accounting.

Learning Outcomes

  • Construct an integrated set of financial statements
  • Estimate the relevant value drivers for revenues, costs, and profit
  • Model and calculate net interest income and debt amortisation
  • Reflect the acquisition disposal and depreciation of assets
  • Create a cash flow statement
  • Model and calculate a balance sheet reflecting the generation of equity
  • Model the firm’s dividend distributions according to its capital structure
  • Analyse profitability, interest and dividend coverage
  • Analyse working capital efficiency and asset conversion cycle

Course Content

  • How to structure the model to be deal-appropriate
  • Standardising models – best practices
  • Understanding the drivers – focusing on the outputs
  • Constructing and linking income statement
  • Construct and linking balance sheet
  • Construct and link cash flow statement

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We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

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