Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over microfinance and small enterprise support. Capital, liquidity and reputation are all exposed by weak handling of enterprise support. It suits anyone whose decisions touch this part of financial and banking practice, in large organisations and small ones alike. Buying a tool rarely fixes microfinance and small enterprise support; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants finish able to explain the practice within financial and banking practice to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of enterprise support and prepares them for it. This programme builds microfinance and small enterprise support from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Where enterprise support is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this area of financial and banking practice broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Validate the assumptions inside any model supporting microfinance and small enterprise support.
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Prepare the regulatory submissions arising from enterprise support.
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Communicate the purpose of microfinance and small enterprise support to those who have to comply with it.
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Test the organisation's response to enterprise support under conditions that are less than ideal.
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Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to microfinance and small enterprise support.
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Plan the remediation route when a weakness in enterprise support is identified.
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Build the internal capability for microfinance and small enterprise support rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
Who Should Attend
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Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around microfinance and small enterprise support.
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Managers with direct responsibility for enterprise support within the business line.
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Compliance officers overseeing microfinance and small enterprise support.
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Finance managers reporting on enterprise support.
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Operations staff executing and settling microfinance and small enterprise support.
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Investment and portfolio managers exposed to enterprise support.
Course Modules
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01
Microfinance and small enterprise support: exceptions, breaches and remediation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Handling a breach of policy on microfinance and small enterprise support properly
Identify the key controls over microfinance and small enterprise support and who tests them.
State the risk appetite for enterprise support as a number, not an adjective.
Check the accounting treatment applied to microfinance and small enterprise support against current standards.
Check that enterprise support still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2Setting a limit on enterprise support that will actually be respected
Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating microfinance and small enterprise support operated as designed.
List the assumptions in any model supporting enterprise support and when each was last challenged.
Confirm regulatory reporting on microfinance and small enterprise support is complete, timely and reconciled.
Estimate the resource enterprise support requires to run as designed.
02
Enterprise support: regulatory obligation and supervisory expectation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building the method for enterprise support step by step
Benchmark the organisation's microfinance and small enterprise support against comparable operations.
Check the legal and contractual exposure created by enterprise support.
Define the trigger that would require microfinance and small enterprise support to be redesigned.
Anticipate the objections enterprise support will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Moving enterprise support from approval to execution
Set out how exceptions to microfinance and small enterprise support are requested and approved.
Test enterprise support against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
Review whether microfinance and small enterprise support is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
Translate the appetite for enterprise support into limits someone monitors daily.
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Enterprise support: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1What a supervisor will ask about enterprise support, and in what order
Plan the sequence in which improvements to microfinance and small enterprise support will be introduced.
Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for enterprise support.
Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in microfinance and small enterprise support.
Identify where judgement in enterprise support is legitimate and where it is not.
Session 2Evidencing that microfinance and small enterprise support worked as designed
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about microfinance and small enterprise support.
Distinguish symptoms from causes when enterprise support underperforms.
Agree who signs off microfinance and small enterprise support and record that they did.
Confirm reporting on enterprise support reaches the committee that can act on it.
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Enterprise support: audit evidence and examiner readiness
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Pricing enterprise support for the risk actually taken
Compare the cost of microfinance and small enterprise support with the cost of its absence.
Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering enterprise support.
Design the exception process for microfinance and small enterprise support and require a documented rationale.
Set the review interval for enterprise support and who attends.
Session 2The hard cases in enterprise support and how to reason about them
Set early warning indicators for microfinance and small enterprise support with defined action thresholds.
Confirm that contractual obligations around enterprise support are understood.
Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside microfinance and small enterprise support.
Build the competence framework that supports enterprise support.
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
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Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
Workshop or Program Participation
Airport Transfers
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Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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