
Explore how assessing a company's business model, capital structure, and debt service capacity informs corporate credit decisions through three anonymised case studies emphasizing judgement and forward-looking thinking.
Assess how a company's business model drives revenue and cash flows, resilience, and sustainability, examining industry dynamics, growth, competitive advantage, to gauge credit risk.
Explore the key elements of corporate credit in this workshop and gain foundational understanding of corporate credit concepts.
Explore capital structure through leverage metrics like debt to EBITDA and debt to equity, examine debt composition and liquidity, and assess financial policy for credit quality.
Explore the key elements of corporate credit in this corporate credit workshop, and understand how these elements shape the course content.
Assess debt service capacity by tracing currency mismatches, leverage, and shareholder incentives that undermine hold-co solvency despite strong op-co cash flows.
Explore the key elements of corporate credit in this workshop, highlighting the essential components emphasized by the course title and lecture focus.
Explore five questions every credit analyst asks, drawing on the company's experience, in this corporate credit workshop.
Explore approaches to historical and forward-looking financials to assess corporate credit risk and strengthen decision making in a corporate credit workshop.
Translate an equity story into a credit story for corporate credit analysis, highlighting narrative framing and credit implications.
Conclude the corporate credit workshop with a final end note and a series of bye messages.
The Corporate Credit Workshop: Hands-On Training for New Analysts is a case-driven program designed to teach participants how real credit analysts assess corporate borrowers, identify risks, and make lending decisions. Unlike theoretical finance courses, this workshop provides a practical framework built around three core pillars of credit analysis: business model quality, capital structure sustainability, and debt service capacity. Participants learn how to apply this framework to real companies and how to form forward-looking credit opinions rather than relying solely on historical financial performance.
Through real-world case studies, learners discover how companies that appear financially sound can deteriorate rapidly due to various reasons like technological disruption, excessive leverage or structural risks. The course emphasizes judgment, context, and critical thinking, equipping analysts to spot red flags early.
By the end of the course, attendees gain the analytical confidence and intuitive understanding needed to assess real-world credit risk, ask the right questions, and think like professional lenders and investors.
Key message:
Credit decisions aren’t only about numbers — judgment and qualitative insights are crucial.
Do not miss the big picture while also keeping in mind that the devil is in the detail.
Having a forward-looking view is crucial.
Enjoy the course!
Best wishes,
Ayse