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Overview This course examines the major tools, techniques, and principles aimed at improving quality and productivity in the public sector. To provide students with practical methods for improving public organizations, this course will cover accountability systems, performance measurement, pay-for-performance reward systems, contracting out, and organizational assessment

Overview This course provides participants with the chance to focus on relevant project management tools and skills required to run successful projects in research and beyond. The course has been designed to help researchers and project managers enhance their project management skills in the context of their research and develop their knowledge of broader project management principles. The training course is highly participative and includes a peer learning session where participants will get the chance to tackle specific issues and challenges related to their research projects, find innovative solutions and share best practices.

Overview Business modelling requires analysts to produce the quantitative models that top management uses to support their decision-making, but top management must also understand the strengths and weaknesses of the models if they are to use them effectively to support their decisions and robustly navigate the strategic negotiation landscape. This is particularly important for PPP projects where long-term commitments are made now based on bankability, value for money and risk allocation. During the course, participants will gain knowledge and skills on the frameworks, tools, and methodologies necessary to build quantitative models for financial decision-making in order to improve the financial viability and bankability of PPP projects. Participants will master modelling frameworks on capital budgeting, risk measurement, regression analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation among others.

Overview An ineffective audit can mean severe consequences; resulting in process failure, customer dissatisfaction and regulatory noncompliance. Optimize your generic auditing skills with this Internal Auditing training course not aimed at any specific ISO management systems standard or Process. Boost your internal audit capabilities by gaining confidence in planning and performing an effective audit and reporting and taking corrective action where necessary. This course develops the necessary skills to assess and report on the conformance and implementation of processes based on management systems. You'll learn how to initiate an audit, prepare and conduct audit activities, compile and distribute audit reports and complete follow-up activities

Overview This is particularly important for PPP projects where long-term commitments are made now based on bankability, value for money and risk allocation. During the course, participants will gain knowledge and skills on the frameworks, tools, and methodologies necessary to build quantitative models for financial decision-making in order to improve the financial viability and bankability of PPP projects. Participants will master modelling frameworks on capital budgeting, risk measurement, regression analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation among others.

Overview The course begins by introducing credit risk, its components and its drivers. The course then dives into business risk assessment and group structure risks. After examining financial statements, including accounting concepts and principles, the course concludes with a review of financial analysis and its four main risk areas.

Overview TQM is a completely structured, comprehensive, and organization-wide approach taken towards organisational structuring and management that continuously seeks to improve the quality rendered by the products, services belted out by the organization and the productivity of the resources handling the product. The aim is to continuously induce quality at each and every step of the organisational workflow in a bid to refine and fine- tune the processes and receive continuous feedback as per customers' norms to refine still further.

Overview For internal employees who want to understand and expand their roles related to financial reporting, as well as those who simply need a refresher on financial accounting, this course is the ideal way to get up to speed. By exploring concepts that go beyond basic accounting, this course will enable participants to approach financial auditing with renewed confidence. The programme will walk participants through an analysis of an organization's financial statements using case study exercises, where participants will calculate key ratios and analyze trends over time. Engaging in discussions on both historic and current fraud cases, participants will learn how to recognize “red flags” in financial statement reporting.

Overview Having a detailed understanding of financial statements is critical to assessing financial risk, and the rate of change in financial statement standards makes this a continuing challenge for users. This course brings together the key elements of financial statement analysis to help participants develop their skills in this area and enable them to ask the right questions to really get under the skin and see the real risks facing businesses and investors in these challenging times. The reference reporting framework used will be IFS. 

Overview Objectives Understand the fundamental concepts of credit risk Evaluate and understand internal and external credit ratings Understand value at risk (VaR) and its use in measuring credit risk Explain the counterparty risk for derivatives, particularly over-the-counter derivatives Describe different credit risk models according to the recommendations of the Basel Committee