What is the aim of this
course?
A securities course
targeted at developing sharper analytical skills in participants to
improve their decision-making skills regarding the investment
quality of common stocks.
With declining interest rates, more and more investors are looking
up to the finance professionals to recommend potentially lucrative
options for attaining higher return. On such avenue is listed common
stock investments or equities. Unfortunately, the level of knowledge
of this market by financial sector practioners across board is less
than satisfactory.
This programme seeks to address this anomaly and to develop a corps
of better-informed financial sector practioners with critical
insight into the workings of the capital markets.
Who is it for?
A critical course
for brokers and analysts involved in corporate finance work and the
provision of advisory services for corporate renewal processes
including mergers and acquisitions, privatizations as well as the
evaluation of investment opportunities for venture capital purposes.
Treasury officers who might be involved in advising on the
investment options of banks would find the course helpful, as would
relationship/marketing officers who might have to provide a first
line of advice to prospective customers for advisory business.
What will you learn?
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Security analysis and financial control
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Performance analysis and security risk assessment
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Distress analysis, earnings forecasting and investment decisions
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Equity valuation models: price earnings ratios and other stock
pricing methodologies
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Technical analysis and stock market performance
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Information and stock market reaction
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Initial public offer process, due diligence: registration and road
shows
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What
is the aim of this course?
It is
not for nothing that in the memorandum accompanying the then Banking
Bill passed by Parliament of the in Ghana in December 2003, the
Minister of Finance indicated that: “the Bank of Ghana is empowered
to facilitate the merger of a distressed bank with a healthy bank or
take any action it considers necessary without consulting the
Minister of Finance”. It was based on a conviction that amalgamation
and consolidation can provide a needed stimulus to grow an economic
sector.
This course deals with principles of mergers and acquisitions as a
corporate strategy to deliver shareholder value.
Who is it for?
An
important course for brokers and analysts involved in corporate
finance work and the provision of advisory services for corporate
renewal processes including mergers and acquisitions, privatizations
as well as the evaluation of investment opportunities for venture
capital purposes. Treasury officers who might be involved in
advising on the investment options of banks would find the course
helpful, as would relationship/marketing officers who might have to
provide a first line of advice to prospective customers for advisory
business.
What will you learn?
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Introduction to mergers & acquisitions (M&As)
a. Players and interests in M&A decisions
b. Organizing M&As
c. Managing dynamics in M&A decision-making process
• M&A and corporate strategy
• Bid strategies and tactics
• Target valuation
• M&A accounting
• Financing M&As
• Takeover defense strategies: from “greenmail” through “poison
pills” to “golden parachutes”
• Governance issues
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