Bank of Tanzania

It is important that Banks and Other Financial Institutions enhance their institutional capacity through training and retraining of their core staff. It might be difficult for those who are not professional bankers to run their institutions, with complexities of procedures, however by addressing the foundation skills this training becomes very useful.

COURSE AIM

The programme aims at imparting knowledge and skills to course participants in order to effectively manage banking operations and comply to the prudential regulations required in the banking profession.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The Programme will cover:

1. The Business of Banking
   An Overview
   
   • The emergency of commercial banking
   • The role of Banks and Other Financial Institutions in the economy
   • A brief note of the structure of a Financial System in Tanzania
   • Licensing a bank (conditions and procedures of opening a bank) in Tanzania
2. The Fundamentals of Banker - Customer Relationship
   • The Customer defined
   • The Banker  defined
   • Factors of relationship between a banker and customer
   • Debtors/Creditors relationship
   • Bailer & Bailer relationship
   • The duty  of Secrecy
   • Statute of Limitation
3. Procedures and conditions for opening customers Bank accounts
   • Types of bank accounts
   • Procedures for opening account
   • Sole Proprietorship account
   • Joint account
   • Partnership account
   • Limited company’s account
   • Executors and administrators account
   • Trustees, Clubs and account for Liquidators
4. Prudentials regulations, security procedures and contingencies for Bank Safety
5. Front and Back office Management
   
   • Telling and Customer Care
   • Garnish Orders an Garnishee Summonses
   • Injuctions
   • The appropriation of payments
   • The rules  of set-off  Safe Custody
   • Indemnities
   • Bankers opinions and  replies to status enquiries
   • Power of Attorney
   • Procedures for events of closing, death, resignation and  change of mandate of account holders
6. Duties of a Banker
   
   • The Paying Banker
   • The Collecting Banker
7. Flow  of accounting work in a Bank

   • Accounting structure of a typical commercial bank

   • Source  of accounting entries in a Bank

   • Management and  controls of accounting work flow in aBank

   • The layout  and  preparation of financial statements of a bank.

WHO ARE TO ATTEND

Staff of Commercial Banks and other Non-Bank  Financial Institutions who  have  no  background  in banking studies

DURATION

One (1) week each:
16th – 20th July 2012  -  Mwanza
5th – 9th November 2012 - DSM

COURSE FACILITATORS

Bank of Tanzania Training Institute

VENUE:

Dar-es-Salaam and Mwanza