Review the contractual and legal exposure created by financial due diligence.
Managing Financial Due Diligence in Acquisition Transactions
Turn financial due diligence from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Capital, liquidity and reputation are all exposed by weak handling of financial due diligence. In finance the difference between a healthy position on the financial and banking practice discipline and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. Ambition around this strand of financial and banking practice outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants leave with a method for financial due diligence, not a set of opinions about it. Participants apply the financial and banking practice discipline to their own business line throughout, so the output is directly usable. They acquire practical criteria for judging when this aspect of financial and banking practice is working and when it is only appearing to. The professional literature on financial due diligence converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The programme suits teams tackling this strand of financial and banking practice together as readily as individuals attending alone. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this area of financial and banking practice ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Estimate what financial due diligence costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Draw practical lessons from failures in financial due diligence without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.
Assess the concentration risk building up inside financial due diligence.
Distinguish the parts of financial due diligence that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Establish the segregation of duties required around financial due diligence.
Validate the assumptions inside any model supporting financial due diligence.
Who Should Attend
Finance managers reporting on financial due diligence.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting financial due diligence.
Regulatory reporting analysts covering financial due diligence.
Risk managers responsible for financial due diligence.
Internal auditors reviewing the controls around financial due diligence.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to financial due diligence that has grown up informally.
Course Modules
Financial due diligence: stress testing and scenario analysis
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The control on financial due diligence that looks strong and is not
- Arrange the handover of financial due diligence so capability survives staff changes.
- Define the trigger that would require financial due diligence to be redesigned.
- List the assumptions in any model supporting financial due diligence and when each was last challenged.
- Estimate the resource financial due diligence requires to run as designed.
Session 2Stress scenarios for financial due diligence that are plausible rather than convenient
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to financial due diligence.
- Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside financial due diligence.
- Review whether financial due diligence is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
- Check that financial due diligence still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Financial due diligence: pricing, profitability and risk-adjusted return
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of financial due diligence and how to present it
- Rehearse the briefing on financial due diligence that would follow an incident.
- Check the accounting treatment applied to financial due diligence against current standards.
- Draft the minimum viable control framework for financial due diligence.
- Set early warning indicators for financial due diligence with defined action thresholds.
Session 2Setting a limit on financial due diligence that will actually be respected
- State the risk appetite for financial due diligence as a number, not an adjective.
- Confirm that those complying with financial due diligence understand why it exists.
- Set out the decisions in financial due diligence that require sign-off and by whom.
- Check that records of financial due diligence answer the questions likely to be asked.
Financial due diligence: the control framework and segregation of duties
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for financial due diligence step by step
- Assess the capital consumed by financial due diligence under current and stressed conditions.
- Anticipate the objections financial due diligence will raise and prepare the answers.
- Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of financial due diligence.
- Test financial due diligence against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
Session 2What a supervisor will ask about financial due diligence, and in what order
- Agree what will be standardised in financial due diligence and what will not.
- Review the pricing of financial due diligence against the risk being assumed.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in financial due diligence.
- Confirm regulatory reporting on financial due diligence is complete, timely and reconciled.
Financial due diligence: risk appetite, limits and policy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where financial due diligence typically breaks, and why
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating financial due diligence operated as designed.
- Agree the smallest change to financial due diligence that would be visibly useful.
- Translate the appetite for financial due diligence into limits someone monitors daily.
- Agree who signs off financial due diligence and record that they did.
Session 2What financial due diligence does to capital and liquidity under stress
- Identify the key controls over financial due diligence and who tests them.
- Reduce the variation in how financial due diligence is carried out between teams.
- Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in financial due diligence.
- Design the exception process for financial due diligence and require a documented rationale.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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