Analysing Financial Disclosures Required Under International Standards

A structured, applied course in required financial disclosures — designed to be used the week you return.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

In finance the difference between a healthy position on required financial disclosures and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over this strand of financial and banking practice. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the practice within financial and banking practice has actually achieved. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in required financial disclosures, not around theory headings. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the wider financial and banking practice agenda are used deliberately. A common pattern is strong design of this strand of financial and banking practice paired with weak follow-through. The professional literature on required financial disclosures converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of the financial and banking practice capability rather than to abstract argument. The final module sets out how progress on the financial and banking practice discipline will be evidenced six months later.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Adapt recognised practice on required financial disclosures to local constraints without hollowing it out.

02

Define the scope and boundaries of required financial disclosures so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.

03

Plan the remediation route when a weakness in required financial disclosures is identified.

04

Build the audit evidence that demonstrates required financial disclosures operated as designed.

05

Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to required financial disclosures.

06

Prepare the regulatory submissions arising from required financial disclosures.

07

Present the case for investment in required financial disclosures in terms that a finance function will accept.

Who Should Attend

01

Operations staff executing and settling required financial disclosures.

02

Officers preparing reports on required financial disclosures for boards or oversight committees.

03

Internal auditors reviewing the controls around required financial disclosures.

04

Financial technology and change staff modernising required financial disclosures.

05

Compliance officers overseeing required financial disclosures.

06

Managers in small and medium organisations who own required financial disclosures alongside other duties.

Course Modules

01

Required financial disclosures: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing out required financial disclosures and capturing what was learned

  • Build the competence framework that supports required financial disclosures.
  • Agree who signs off required financial disclosures and record that they did.
  • Confirm reporting on required financial disclosures reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to required financial disclosures are current.

Session 2Moving required financial disclosures from approval to execution

  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in required financial disclosures.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in required financial disclosures.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of required financial disclosures before proposing changes.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for required financial disclosures.
02

Required financial disclosures: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Evidencing that required financial disclosures worked as designed

  • Benchmark the organisation's required financial disclosures against comparable operations.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside required financial disclosures.
  • Review the pricing of required financial disclosures against the risk being assumed.
  • Design the exception process for required financial disclosures and require a documented rationale.

Session 2What required financial disclosures does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating required financial disclosures operated as designed.
  • State the risk appetite for required financial disclosures as a number, not an adjective.
  • Assess the capital consumed by required financial disclosures under current and stressed conditions.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains required financial disclosures to those affected.
03

Required financial disclosures: stress testing and scenario analysis

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing required financial disclosures for the risk actually taken

  • Translate the appetite for required financial disclosures into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Name a single owner for each element of required financial disclosures.
  • Record what was learned when required financial disclosures did not go as planned.
  • Identify the key controls over required financial disclosures and who tests them.

Session 2The assumption inside the model for required financial disclosures that nobody revisits

  • Check that required financial disclosures still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of required financial disclosures current.
  • Compare the cost of required financial disclosures with the cost of its absence.
  • Test required financial disclosures against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
04

Required financial disclosures: reporting that supports a decision

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in required financial disclosures and what to ignore

  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by required financial disclosures.
  • Check that records of required financial disclosures answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when required financial disclosures underperforms.
  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of required financial disclosures.

Session 2Stress scenarios for required financial disclosures that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to required financial disclosures will be introduced.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on required financial disclosures is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Review whether required financial disclosures is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
  • Reduce the variation in how required financial disclosures is carried out between teams.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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