The course equips you with a comprehension of the various concepts in credit analysis, which will enable you to make decisions in crucial corporate credit scenarios. Our curriculum offers in-depth knowledge on how to conduct a quantitative evaluation of the various business and financial factors of a company, thereby enabling the participants to acquire the necessary skills for becoming a successful credit analyst. Besides, the course is very engaging and interacting, and thus, it facilitates the participants to apply the concepts learned into their routine professional tasks with precision.
Overview
The course will provide the participants with a structured methodology to analyze the solvency from a credit perspective. The course also prepares the participants to apply both qualitative and quantitative tools to assess the performance of a company and determine its credit rating as per the global standards. The course is designed to ensure that complex concepts are delivered to participants in a simple way, thereby supporting them in remembering and applying these concepts in their current jobs and in making crucial business decisions.
Who should attend
Anyone who wants to enhance their expertise in corporate credit analysis should attend this course, which includes:
- Professionals aspiring to have a career as analysts;
- Business analysts;
- Corporate analysts;
- Corporate credit rating analysts;
- Investment bankers and corporate bankers;
- Private equity analysts;
- Heads of departments, managers, and executives;
- Business owners and entrepreneurs.
Methodology & Trainer
Non theoretical methodology, which includes interactive discussions, case studies, interactive games, and assignments to understand the concepts and their applicability.
We carefully choose all our trainers who possess rich and vast experience in the financial sector. The course will be conducted by an experienced training consultant having more than 15 years of industry experience with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, specializing in corporate finance, corporate credit analysis, investment banking, and asset valuation.
- Why is credit needed?
- Various types of credit and industry structure
- Importance of credit analysis
- Various types of assessment tools and methods
- How to apply the same in analysis
- Key mistakes to avoid
- Analysis of credit analysis framework
- Apply various factors of credit framework
- Significance in decision-making and scrutinization
- Managing and process borrower rating
- Analyzing threats in the operating environment, capital markets, and industry of the borrower
- Study of the types of risks in credit evaluation
- Assessing business and financial risks
- Managing the risk of business
- Impact of life cycles on the company
- Strategic advantages and disadvantages –competitive advantages, industry forces, etc
- Competitive ratings in the industry and its impact
- Analyzing the operating risks
- Major causes of the company’s decline
- Reviewing the company’s financial information
- Undertaking income statement analysis
- Analyzing revenue, profitability, and asset, ratios
- The importance of cash flow
- Studying the cash conversion cycle
- Significance of critical ratios such as DSCR, LLCR, leverage ratios, etc
- Reviewing the company structure
- Concept of multiple layer formation
- Process of the management assessment framework
- Overview of the process of loan sanction
- Understanding various financial and non-financials factors
- Studying the sample contents of a loan scoring model
- Review of a sample credit note
- Content and its applicability
- Key mistakes to avoid
- Studying the different types of risks and mitigations
- Company level vs. group structure risk
- Onetime vs. continuous management
- Importance of debt structuring
- Reviewing the elements in debt structuring
- Different types of structure and its benefits
- How reliable documentation helps a lender
- Assessing risk coverage through loan documentation
- Role of covenants and how to set up a bank covenant spectrum
- Signs and causes of financial distress
- Effects of financial distress
- Potential options for financial distress?
- Studying the phases of restructuring and its benefits
- When should companies take up redesign?
- Analyzing long-term strategies in restructuring
- Why is it crucial
- Structure of the rating preamble and study of a sample credit rating report
- Credit rating team structure
- Process to calculate your business credit score
- Types of credit ratings followed globally
- Key rating factors across various industries
- Processes followed in a credit rating agency
- Data collection and its analysis
- Key points to deal with rating agencies
