International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Program Objectives
- To apply advanced accounting principles and techniques in a practical context
- To evaluate and apply various IFRS as they apply
- To analyze, interpret and report on financial statements and related information to different user groups
- To ensure that developers and users of financial statements are up-to-date with current amendments and requirements of IFRS as they relate to business fields
Who Should Attend?
Managers, officers, and employees working in Accounting, Finance, Treasury and Operations who would like to understand, interpret and apply IFRS. The course presumes knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles. No prior knowledge of IFRS is required
Creating Dashboards with Excel for Business Decisions
Program Objectives
- Analyze large amounts of data
- Present and report data visually in a meaningful way
- Compile charts, tables, and other information into a dashboard report
- Create interactive controls to enable the reader to customize their view
- Automate repetitive tasks using macros
- Incorporate external data to support your message
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for General Managers, Financial Managers, Directors, Senior Accountants, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, HR Managers, Business Owners and anyone who deals with management and financial reporting.
Project Evaluation and Financing
Program Objectives
- To perform an overall evaluation of existing and envisioned projects
- To control project finances and make informed decisions regarding estimating and overall costing
- To perform an overall project cost management and how to prepare business cases, estimate costs and prepare project budgets
- To effectively manage cash flow of the project and maintain a viable capital recovery plan
- To draft evaluation criteria for projects in the context of its financial feasibility
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for holding organization Executives; Senior and Middle Management Directors, Business and Financial Advisors, Investment Bankers, Corporate Bankers, Investment Managers, Strategic Investors, Financial Managers, Business Owners and Directors of Public Organization and Public enterprises
Hedging Strategies Using Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivatives for Corporate Clients
Program Objectives
- Refresh the basic knowledge of FX and Interest Rate derivatives
- Identify the various types of risks faced by corporate clients
- Explore the range of available FX and Interest Rate derivatives strategies
- Design and Structure FX and Interest Rate Derivatives strategies for corporate clients
- Provide in risk assessment strategies and techniques for corporate clients
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Treasury Departments.
Financial Statement and Cash Flow Analysis
Program Objectives
- Explain the relationship between strategic business analysis, accounting analysis and financial analysis
- Identify and utilize value-relevant information contained within financial statements
- Understand the fundamentals of Cash Flow
- Learn to analyze Cash Flow of small and large corporations from various aspects
- Apply advanced analytical tools on the Statement of Cash Flow
- Describe factors associated with communicating useful information
- Gain expertise in performing horizontal and vertical analysis of all types of statements and what factors to consider in both types of analysis
- Explain ratio analysis as it relates to the financial statements including the factoring of non-financial data
- Develop professional templates for ensuring and maintaining high-quality loans
- Address any credit issues that may lead to downgrading of credit facilities/loans
- Develop credit rationale consistent with a bank’s strategy
- Structure financial analysis model using EXCEL
- Practice how to apply sensitivity analysis
- Examine how to structure a borrower’s debt funding as it is essential to both; borrower and the bank
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for participants who are just joining the banking sector or moving and advancing in a new demanding department in their bank such as Corporate Banking, SMEs, Credit, Treasury or Finance
Risk-Based Auditor
Program Objectives
- Audit the organizational risk maturity level to add-value to GRC Framework
- Deliver deeper insights into strategic risks emerging from strategic plan formulation
- Develop Risk-Based Auditing and monitoring policy from the identified risk priorities
- Emphasis more risk-based audit planning and monitoring plan from identified risk priorities
- Assess risks across enterprise wide for prioritization, likelihood of occurrence and impact on organization
- Build RBA Framework for effective risk identification and control
Who Should Attend?
This program is suitable for heads of audit, audit managers and senior auditors, auditors responsible for developing or implementing an agile based approach, other assurance professionals such as those in compliance and QA functions who are wanting to develop their Agile Based Approach. Senior managers and Directors of business functions – to aid their knowledge of an agile based audit approach.
Strategic Financial Planning and Budgeting for Decision Making
Program Objectives
- Develop conceptual understanding of the subject
- Apply the methods and techniques to carry out financial planning and budgeting
- Formulate financial plans and budgets to manage various financial activities, and
- Evaluate the financial plans and budgets for effective financial control
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Budgeting and planning professionals, Finance managers, Senior and mid-level management, Financial Analysts.
The Future of Digital Banking
Program Objectives
- Identifying the different digital banking channels and how to properly assess and improve quality
- Developing process excellence for effective digital banking products
- Understanding the role of digital banking members, and their relationship with the management and vendors
- Mastering the digital products’ best practices, for both corporates and consumers
- Building a strong relationship with clients and stakeholders
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Corporate Banking Teams, Business Banking and SMEs Officers, Global Transaction Banking Teams, Cash Management Products Officers, Governmental Payments Officers, Digital Banking Officers, Sales and Services Officers, Business Improvement Teams, Branches Officers, Treasury Officers, Financial and Capital Planners and Compliance Department.
How to Establish the Modern Internal Audit Function?
Program Objectives
- Understand the Corporate Governance Framework related to the Internal Audit
- Identify the corporate governance initial requirements
- Formalize the Internal Audit function reporting structure
- Understand establishment of Internal Audit function methodology
- Implementation of establishing the internal audit department methodology
- Development and implementation of the Risk-Based Internal Audit plan
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Internal Audit Assistant Managers, Internal Audit Managers/ Senior Manager / Director, Head of Internal Audit / Chief Audit Executive, Members of Audit Committee, and Head of Audit committee
Retail Banking Master Class
Program Objectives
- Develop strategies for the overall retail market and important sub-segments thereof, with focus on the “Segment of one”
- Enhance sales efficiency through Omni channel sales model
- Balancing branch network with digital channels
- Align staff incentives with organizational objectives. Best practices in creation of sales incentives, Key Performance Indicators & Balanced Score cards
- Move from the past – brick & mortar, to the present – click & mortar; to the future – Click & Win
- Understand all Retail Banking Products – Deposits, Loans, Cards, Insurance, Investments and all key regulations associated therewith
- Develop new products and campaigns
- Master the different methodologies on Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) & Asset Liability Management (ALM)
- Manage risks; credit risk modeling and risk based pricing
- Develop Net Promoter Score (NPS) to understand the voice of the customer
- Make Financial decisions – Profitability, Costing Models, Business Cases & ROI and overall retail banking balance sheet, P&L
- Interpret and manage the changing global landscape, leverage emerging technologies and trends to future proof today
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Branch Managers, RMs, Financial Analysts, Accountants, Finance, MI professionals, IT/HR Operations, Compliance/Audit/Risk/Marketing/Treasury subject matter specialists, Product/Segment managers, aspiring retail bankers
Comprehensive Treasury Audit Workshop
Program Objectives
- The role and structure of treasury in the organization
- The audit of interest rate & foreign exchange risk management
- The audit of asset and liability management
- The audit of liquidity risk management
- The audit approach for sophisticated instruments
- Auditing the measurement of interest rate and currency exposure
- Understanding and auditing different risk management instruments
- Understanding and auditing controls operation in the treasury environment
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for internal audit managers, supervisors, seniors and auditors.
Governance, Risk and Compliance for Financial Institutions
Program Objectives
- Analyze core elements of the Three Lines of Defense (3LoD), as well as the various intersections between Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC)
- Learn how to design, develop, and build a leading and effective governance, risk & compliance (GRC) framework, with appropriate policies, procedures, and resources in place
- How to explain the benefits of an integrated GRC framework to management and the board of directors?
- Build skills to demonstrate core GRC leadership and enable business growth
- Implement effective, efficient and strategic GRC processes
- Ability to identify and respond to opportunities more quickly
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for GRC Professionals, Governance Officers, Risk Officers, Compliance Officers, Internal Auditors, Managers responsible for GRC activities, Internal Control Officers, Senior Managers & Chief Officers, Directors & Board Members and External Auditors.
SMEs Banking
Program Objectives
- Providing participants with an analytical overview of the economic conditions and the SME sector in Egypt
- Reviewing the strategic objectives and applications of SMEs, especially market scanning, segmentation, industry analysis and the roadmap to achieve CBE target of increasing SMEs lending portfolio to be 20% of the bank portfolio
- Identifying risk management issues through comprehensive credit assessments tailored for SMEs due to their specific profiles and weak financials and finding solutions and credit products to overcome them
- Participates will have real-life case studies of SMEs credit files and solutions and will further understand how to assess and mitigate their credit risks
- Credit Scoring (Qualitative and quantitative) & Lending Product
- Early warning signals as well as portfolio management of the SMEs portfolio
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Senior Risk professionals, Credit Officers, Heads of SME and Retail Lending, Relationship Managers, Heads of Business Banking, Heads of Product Development and Heads of Business Development.
Advanced Credit Management
Program Objectives
- To comprehend credit and appreciate the importance of credit management and its policies and procedures
- To grasp the concept of credit management and its effect on the overall risk.
- Manage commercial credit and maximize the business deals with commercially minded credit decisions
- Understand the importance of gathering the right information about your customers especially in the global dynamic hot markets
- Understand financial & business risk and in-depth accounts analysis to make informed decisions on higher commercial risk and justify higher/lower credit limits/ratings
- Carry out credit and risk assessments to highlight your customers’ strengths and weaknesses to decide on initial and long-term credit limits/credit ratings on your customers
- Establish whether customers are low, medium or high credit risk in line with Basel Accords & the IFRS latest releases
- To develop the credit & risk acceptance criteria within the credit management ecosystem
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for Credit Managers, Credit Officers, Corporate Bankers, Commercial Bankers, Midcap Front-Liners, Large Corporate Bankers, Business Risk Reviewers, Risk Managers, Syndication Professionals, Wholesale Front-Liners, Corporate Credit teams, Investors, CFOs, Corporate Treasurers, Finance Managers, Financial Advisors and Financial Planners.
Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB), Liquidity Risk Management, and Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP)
Program Objectives
- Understand the value and importance of an effective IRRBBmechanism
- Be able to ensure best-practice measurement, reporting and hedging for your bank’s IRRBB process framework
- Understand the use, calculation and application of the two reporting measures (NII and EVE)
- Understand Bank Liquidity Risk
- Understand the Role of Contingency Funding Plan (CFP)
- Understand the objectives of FTP and various types of FTP
- Introduce best practice for curve construction and modelling FTP
- How liquidity transfer pricing can be managed and fits in the overall risk strategy
- Connecting IRRBB, FTP but the bank ALM
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for the following departments:
- Risk management
- Treasury
- Asset management
- Audit
- Data analysis
Factoring
Program Objectives
- Provide an overview on the Egyptian market; competition and prospects
- Understanding the benefits, operations and processes as well as risk management & legal issues involved in factoring
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for the following departments:
- Credit
- Risk management
- Financial Control
COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Program Objectives
- Define Enterprise Risk Management as a process
- Understand the main objectives and concepts of Enterprise Risk Management
- Considers the big (entity) and little(activity) pictures
- Identify and understand root causes
- Provide reasonable assurance
- Recognizes that Enterprise Risk Management is affected by people
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for:
- Risk Professionals
- Internal Auditors
- Internal Control Officers
- Compliance Officers
- Financial Controllers
- Governance Officers
- Senior Managers
- Chief Officers
- Directors & Board Members
- Audit Committee Members