London Corporate Training

Dates for this course

17/08/09 - 28/08/09

30/11/09 - 11/12/09

Who should attend:

The course is directed at bank supervision staff in particular the Supervision Departments of central banks. 

• Supervisory Specialists
• Finance Directors, Senior Accountants and Treasury Managers.
• Executives wanting to know how to analyse an organisation’s financial performance.
• Senior company executives, CEO’s and all levels of management including supervisors who wish to gain an insight into Banking Consolidation & Supervision.

What you will learn:

• The objective of this course is for you to gain a high level of competence in this subject.
• You will be able to measure and compare one banks performance against another.
• It will enable you to identify the correct procedures to be implemented for the risk focused supervision of the banking system’s operation.
• To improve the auditing function of banks so as to establish and maintain high standards of auditing and to meet the developing needs of users of financial information.

The course will cover:

• Definition of the consolidation process.
• The reasons for the growth of consolidation.
• The difference in treatment of bank groups as opposed to mixed activity bank groups
• Defining the different risks of consolidated banks.
• The legal implications of the structure of ownership of holding companies
• Subsidiary companies.
• Which International accounting standards / financial reporting standards applied by accounting standards board are relevant to banks?
• Supervision. • Specific problems with bank groups.
• The Basle committee a) contagion b) exposure to counter parties c) transparency d) management quality e) rights of access to borrowers.
• Methods of creating consolidated accounts. prorata, qualitative or
• Quantative consolidation
• Practical work shops.
• Bank of Ireland, Barclays and the problems with Barclays capital
• Northern rock.
• The current global credit crunch.