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Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Financial Training Associates Ltd: the Company

Financial Training Associates Ltd is a company that provides experienced finance trainers to clients who wish to run financial markets training courses for small groups of their employees. Courses encompass financial modelling training, corporate finance, company valuation, project finance as well as other related course subject areas such as risk management, corporate credit analysis, private equity, loan restructuring and energy risk management.

Financial modelling courses

Our financial modelling courses are all “hands on”. Delegates are provided with the opportunity to create their own cash flow forecast in Excel as part of building a complete and integrated model of financial statements from scratch. The focus is on learning by doing, with plenty of guidance and support provided along the way.

Corporate finance and company valuation courses

Our courses in these areas focus on the application of corporate finance and valuation techniques to real life problems. Although grounded in financial theory, the emphasis here is on “workshop style” teaching with pragmatic application to real life situations. For example, as part of their work, delegates work in teams to critique and suggest improvements to valuation work conducted by major investment banks.

Project finance courses

Our project finance courses encompass topics such as project risk and allocation, key performance indicators, major areas of negotiation, key contractual issues, due diligence, documentation, the impact and role of financing structures, as well as Excel modelling for project finance. Learning points on our project finance courses are regularly reinforced by referencing real life and well known case studies.

Risk management and corporate credit courses

Recent failures of risk control are too easy to find, to the point where it seems that no institution is immune. As a result, the role of risk management has changed: it is not just a mechanism of control but a critical component of business strategy. Our courses discuss recent control failures, outline alternative approaches to credit risk management, detail industry standard operational risk measurement techniques and explore the role of and pitfalls inherent in detailed risk modelling work.

About Financial Training Associates: our clients

Our clients include international financial institutions, major corporates and service providers such as accountants, lawyers and other advisers.

Useful and usable training courses

The finance training courses our trainers run are pragmatic, vocational and practical – designed to help delegates as soon as they return to their desks from training.

Specialised financial training courses

Our trainers are highly experienced individuals and bring skills equivalent to those of other senior people within, for example, top advisory firms.

Active learning

Our trainers work with energy and enthusiasm. Our trainers facilitate learning: interacting with their audiences, soliciting ideas from participants, running discussions and introducing up to date and relevant real-life case studies.

Financial Training Associates exists to match the very best trainers with clients who need specialist financial training courses in complex areas.

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