Financial Management for Debt Managers & Administrators Training
On completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Understand Credit Control & Management
- Understand the need for Debt and its management
- Link debt levels to economic performance
- Come up with institutional framework for debt management
- Come up with policy options for credit control, debt management and restructuring
- Advice government on optimal debt levels
Target Groups
- Economists
- Policy planners
- Fiscal experts
- Treasury managers
- Development practitioners
- Policy Analysts
Course Outline
- Management principles and practices
- Introduction to credit management
- Credit Risk Assessment
- Credit-Rating Agencies
- Debtor/Credit relationships
- Debt Management
- Types of Debt
- Credit-Rating Agencies
- Accounting for Debt
- Debt-Related Controls
- Debt-Related Policies
- Debt-Related Procedures
- Understanding Debt-internal and external
- The Role of Government in the National Economy
- Background to National Debt – Tradable Debt
- The Need for Public Debt Management
- Loan Cycle
- functions relating to Public Debt Management
- Institutional Framework for Public Sector Borrowing
- Public Debt and Budget Deficit
- Government Borrowing and the Public Debt
- Fiscal Policy – Government Expenditure
- Fiscal Policy – Government Revenue
- Fiscal Reforms
- Privatisation
- Legal and Regulatory Framework, Issue of Guarantees and On-lending
- Requirements for the Effective Monitoring of Public Debt
- Monitoring Private Non-Guaranteed and Short-term Debt
- Accessing International Capital Markets
- Mobilizing Resources from the Domestic Market and the Pricing of Instruments
- Domestic Debt – Management and Control
- Domestic Debt – Structuring and Restructuring
- Structural Adjustment Programmes
- Management of Credit and Accounts Receivable (A/R)
- Policy Options in debt Management
- Debt and Vulnerability Indicators and their Critical Values
- Analysis of Public Debt and Debt Indicators
- Formulation of a Borrowing Policy and Strategy
- Risk Management
- Debt Restructuring
- Institutional Reforms
- Computer Application
- Database Management
- Action Planning
Way forward After the Training
Participants will develop a work plan through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.
Training Evaluation:
Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge and skills acquired and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.