CORPORATE FINANCE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Duration: 3 days

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role of the effective project management on supporting business change.
• Identify the critical success factors in successful project management.
• Explore the key phases in the management of a project and practice the use of a range of planning control techniques.
• Apply these tools and concepts to current business projects.
• Understand the key concepts of corporate lending strategy.

CONTENT

(i) Project Management
    • Identify the characteristics of successful projects.
    • Project definition to include project objectives, work breakdown structures and resource requirements.
    • Project planning to include responsibility assignment, negotiation and project planning techniques e.g.       GANTT Charts, Network diagrams.
    • Identification of potential problems and opportunities.
    • Project monitoring, control and evaluation.

(ii) Corporate Finance
    • Risks faced by banks.
    • Banking supervision and regulation.
    • Transaction risks in lending.
    • Development capital.
    • New issues.
    • Mergers acquisitions/takeovers.
    • Capital reconstruction.
    • Bridging finance.
    • Medium term loans.
    • Public sector finance.
    • Financing decisions – Debts Vs. Equity.
    • Discounted cash flow techniques.

TARGET GROUP

Merchant Banking Senior Managers especially the following category of Senior Managers: Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Business Development, Foreign Business and Advisory Services.

FORMAT
Lectures, exercises and case studies.