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Managing Financial Risk with Forwards, Futures, Options, and Swaps

Course Outline

You hear it all the time: today, risk management drives financial strategy. How can you be sure you're making the most profitable use of the powerful tools available to manage your organization's risk?

Now, with this brand new, totally revised edition you'll learn the art and science of risk management as it is practiced in today's most ambitious and successful companies. You'll see how to calculate and use the new metric of value at risk (VaR) to establish winning strategies and limit potential loss. And you'll see how to combine the four types of derivatives forwards, futures, options, and swaps to create effective risk management products for your organization's specific needs.


You'll gain a solid foundation in the basic elements, strategies, and implications of derivatives, their products and terminology, as well as a better understanding of the effects of financial risk management on a firm's investment and financing decisions and on its overall profitability.

In addition to its emphasis on new market structures and concepts, the Second Edition of Managing Financial Risk with Forwards, Futures, Options, and Swaps also includes numerous examples that clarify risk management applications; Internet sources and resources; and valuable exercises that allow you to apply the principles and techniques of risk management to real-world situations.

Learn how to:

  • Formulate and implement risk management strategies that are consistent with corporate goals
  • Exploit hedging as a positive risk management tactic
  • Reduce the likelihood of financial distress
  • Use your organization's special skills and knowledge to optimize risk exposure
  • Add real value by increasing expected cash flows and reducing investor/lender required rates of return

Major Subjects Covered:

  1. Financial Risk Management
  2. Measuring Risk Exposure
  3. Interest Rate Risk Management Issues
  4. Managing Risk with Forward Contracts
  5. Managing Risk with Futures Contracts
  6. Options: Terminology and Principles
  7. Managing Risk with Options
  8. Managing Risk with Swaps
  9. Financial Engineering
  10. Corporate Strategy and Risk Management.

Course Objective: Understand the concept of risk management and how to use a variety of derivative financial strategies to manage risk. Learn how hedging can positively affect an organization's risk exposure.

Topics include:

  • The Fundamental Expertise of the Accounting Manager
  • Cash Management
  • The Accounting Manager's role with Accounts Receivable Management
  • The Accounting Manager's Role with Inventory and Its Management
  • Long-Term Operational Assets and Other Long-Term Assets
  • Accounts Payable and Other Liabilities
  • Budgets and the Profit Plan
  • The New Profile of the Accounting Manager
  • The Accounting Manager and Leadership
  • The Broadening Business Perspective of the Accounting Manager

Course Objective: Orient accounting professionals to the duties, functions, and responsibilities of the accounting manager.

Available Formats for Employees and Managers

At our training centre in downtown Toronto, 10.00AM to 5.00PM with one hour lunch break.

$2499 + GST per participant for a three day workshop,

We offer a 10% discount for each additional participant

For Soft Skill Workshops outside the GTA, please contact us at 647-271-3330 or e-mail your request to support@train4career.net for pricing giving information like number of participants, convenient dates etc.

 

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