Course Name
Diploma Program in Corporate Finance: Advanced ModuleSchedule
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Regular Rate:
Php 94,000
Diploma Program in Corporate Finance: Advanced Module
- COMPANY VALUATION: PRINCIPLES, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS (August 1, 8, & 15)
- Accounting-linked valuation methods
- Discounted cash flow valuation
- “Cash flow” concept and estimation; adjustment of accounting numbers
- Construction of appropriate discount rates
- Review of cost of capital and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) estimation
- The use of “adjusted present value” method as an alternative valuation approach
- INVESTMENT BANKING (August 22, 29, & September 5)
- Investment banking and the money and capital markets: A brief introduction
- Rationale and applicable frameworks for going public
- Applicable laws and regulations
- Identification and selection of suitable candidates
- Preparation of registration statements, prospectuses and other relevant documents
- Determination of offering strategy, valuing, pricing, and timing of the issue
- Coordination with underwriting and selling agents and other consultants
- Listing in the Philippine Stock Exchange
- After issuance/listing responsibilities
- Role of venture capital and asset securitization in funds raising
- CORPORATE FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (September 19, 26, & October 3)
- Financial risk management: An overview and introduction
- Taxonomy of risks
- Basic contracts and their markets
- Hedging instruments: Types, descriptions, pricing, trading
- Structuring the hedge: Issues, factors, mechanics
- Implementing the hedge: The decision, dealing and credit
- Legal and regulatory compliance issues
- Selected business studies and applications
- MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (October 10, 17, & 24)
- Mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy
- History of mergers and acquisitions and motivations
- The mergers and acquisition process and associated documents
- Introduction to valuation
- Specific issues relating to valuation approaches
- PROJECT FINANCING (November 7, 14, & 21)
- Project financing: Definitions, rationale, intricacies, benefits and challenges
- Project financing vs. direct financing
- Analysis and evaluation of project viability and bankability
- Preparation of cash flow projections and their use to measure expected rates of return
- Determining a project's borrowing capacity
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Credit requirements of lenders
- Legal structure and security arrangements
- Financial plan preparation
- Design and development of suitable financing arrangement
- FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING AND BANKRUPTCY (November 27 - 28)
- Understanding corporate financial distress and its consequences
- Common causes of business failure: Internal and external
- Early financial distress detection
- Reorganization vs. liquidation
- Development and implementation of a financial rehabilitation plan
- Working with and seeking concessions from creditors
- Liquidation in bankruptcy: Advantages and disadvantages, mechanics
- Vulture investing
- Legal and accounting aspects