The Business Valuation certification is ideal for those who wish to have a transaction advisory or management accounting role, which focuses on the financial health of companies. The business valuation consultant helps clients with formal valuation for compliance and/or regulator purposes and has significant project management abilities Business valuation professionals assist individuals and corporations with calculating the net worth of their businesses, and supplying clients with financial data that helps them make well-informed business decisions. In addition to possessing excellent analytical, communication and decision-making skills, business valuation professionals must be able to clearly interpret complex financial statements and figures.
The Enterprise Risk Analysis certification is ideal for those who wish to examine the way in which business and society make an assessment of, control and transferrisk. The goal of this course is to engage students in active discovery of risk management principles. Enterprise Risk Analysts will be prepared to function in a business environment, developing an awareness of the challenges, the tools, and the process of designing and implementing a risk management program. The risk management process is becoming an increasingly important tool in the management of business and personal strategic and financial health. An effective and efficient corporate risk management program leads to knowledge and control of costs and an improved bottom line. The risk management process involves identification of risks and associated potential costs, analysis of the causes of risk of financial loss, determination of various strategies to treat risk, selection of strategies appropriate to the goals and objectives of the business, implementation of the selected strategies, management and monitoring of results. Making adjustments, adapting to external and internal forces, and crisis or disaster management are incorporated in the corporate risk management process. An effective risk management program will reduce losses, and improve financial performance and employee morale.
The International Business Analysis certification is ideal for those who desire to be an agent of change in an multinational corporation. An international business analyst will identify and define the solutions in a global context that will maximize the value delivered by an organization to its stakeholders.
Business analysts work across all levels of an organization and country boundaries and may be involved in everything from defining strategy, to creating the enterprise architecture, to taking a leadership role by defining the goals and requirements for programs and projects or supporting continuous improvement in its technology and processes. IBAs have the specialized knowledge to act as a guide and lead the business through unknown or unmapped territory, to get it to its desired destination. The value of business analysis is in realization of benefits, avoidance of cost, identification of new opportunities, understanding of required capabilities and modelling the organization. Through the effective use of business analysis, a IBA can ensure an organization realizes these benefits, ultimately improving the way they do business in a multinational setting.
The Project Finance Analysis certification is ideal for senior managers who desire to apply the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques learnt in the postgraduate and/or CMA program to project financing and investment appraisal activities. Essentially, Project finance is the financing of long-term infrastructure, industrial projects and public services using a non-recourse or limited recourse financial structure. The debt and equity used to finance the project are usually paid back from the cash flow generated by the project. Project financing is a loan structure that relies primarily on the project’s cash flow for repayment, with the project’s assets, rights and interests held as secondary collateral. Project finance is especially attractive to the private sector because companies can fund major projects off-balance sheet. The main feature of project finance is the whole amount may or may not be not invested upfront.
Daily activities Project Finance Analyst will include managing project databases, researching project and market factors, and supporting the organisations financing efforts.
A Project Finance Analyst is useful in the case of large projects related to industrial, construction, oil refinery or renewable energy projects. Project Finance Analysts perform several duties during the project’s lifecycle, including data gathering and analysis, cash flow monitoring and reporting, tax compliance, and working with staff members in accounting and sales departments to complete projects according to business needs and internal and external deadlines.
Syllabus
Project Investment Evaluation
- Long-Term Projects
- Capital Budgeting Techniques
- Uncertainties and Probabilities
- Investment Evaluation and Project Objectives
- Profitability and Market Share Objectives
- Follow-up of Capital Budgeting Decisions
Case Study: Trump’s Department Store
Project Financing and Evaluation
- Optimal Capital Structures
- Cost of Capital: An Overview
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- The Impact of Risk on Cost of Capital and Performance
- Using the CAPM in Project Management
- Project Risk – Definitions
- The Importance of Project Risk Management
- Project Risk Management Processes
- Planning Risk Management
- Identifying Risks
- Risk Register
- Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Planning Risk Responses
- Controlling Risks
Political & Exchange Risk in Project Management
- International Investments
- International Project Risk Management
- Operational Profitability in Risk Analysis
- Proactive Political Strategies
- Exchange Risk Exposure
Case Study: The iProject Corporation
The Project Finance Analysis certification is ideal for those CMAs who desire to apply the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques learnt in the CMA program to project financing and investment appraisal activities. Essentially, Project finance is the financing of long-term infrastructure, industrial projects and public services using a non-recourse or limited recourse financial structure. The debt and equity used to finance the project are usually paid back from the cash flow generated by the project. Project financing is a loan structure that relies primarily on the project’s cash flow for repayment, with the project’s assets, rights and interests held as secondary collateral. Project finance is especially attractive to the private sector because companies can fund major projects off-balance sheet. The main feature of project finance is the whole amount may or may not be not invested upfront.
Daily activities of a Project Finance Analyst will include managing project databases, researching project and market factors, and supporting the organisations financing efforts.
A Project Finance Analyst is useful in the case of large projects related to industrial, construction, oil refinery or renewable energy projects. Project Finance Analysts perform several duties during the project’s lifecycle, including data gathering and analysis, cash flow monitoring and reporting, tax compliance, and working with staff members in accounting and sales departments to complete projects according to business needs and internal and external deadlines.
Syllabus
Project Investment Evaluation
- Long-Term Projects
- Capital Budgeting Techniques
- Uncertainties and Probabilities
- Investment Evaluation and Project Objectives
- Profitability and Market Share Objectives
- Follow-up of Capital Budgeting Decisions
Case Study: Trump’s Department Store
Project Financing and Evaluation
- Optimal Capital Structures
- Cost of Capital: An Overview
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- The Impact of Risk on Cost of Capital and Performance
- Using the CAPM in Project Management
Project Risk Management
- Project Risk – Definitions
- The Importance of Project Risk Management
- Project Risk Management Processes
- Planning Risk Management
- Identifying Risks
- Risk Register
- Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Planning Risk Responses
- Controlling Risks
Political & Exchange Risk in Project Management
- International Investments
- International Project Risk Management
- Operational Profitability in Risk Analysis
- Proactive Political Strategies
- Exchange Risk Exposure
Case Study: The iProject Corporation