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About CAFTA

CAFTA (Certificate in Applied Finance, Treasury and Analytics) is a certification program exclusively designed by EY professionals having varied industry experience in banking, consulting, corporates, NBFC, insurance, etc.

The course has been structurally designed for participants who want to learn and apply concepts of treasury and finance in solving business problems and get practitioners’ insights. The course also provides opportunities to the participants to witness real-life scenarios that the changing industry faces due to the technology trends.

CAFTA for scholars is a product designed specifically for students to experience the world of Treasury and Finance

CAFTA for executives is a exclusively curated program for entry to mid level working professionals to experience industry trends and benchmarks


Learning outcomes

Orientation to Treasury
• Understand the role of Treasury in an organization
• Learn about the various functions of the Treasury department across cash and liquidity, debt, forex, risk andso on
• Get in-depth understanding of the operational aspects related to Treasury
• Learn about the different Treasury set-ups in different organisations such as banks, corporates and insurance
• Learn about the roles and responsibilities of front office, middle office and back office
• Get introduced to various banking segments and products

Cash and Liquidity Management
• Understand liquidity management and cash forecasting
• Familiarize yourself with types of cash management products and payment products
• Deep dive into different types and mechanics of cash pools including physical and notional
• Understand the mechanics of payment factory through POBO/ROBO models
• Familiarize yourself with trends and best practice in international treasury through in-house banks and virtualaccounts
• Learn about the clearing and settlement systems run by the banks and emerging payment methods

Corporate Finance
• Familiarize yourself with the theory of capital structure
• Understand sources of financing and gain insight into the impact of capital structure decision
• Understand the detailed process followed by corporates to raise debt financing through financial institution sand capital markets
• Learn about alternate funding sources adopted by corporates apart from traditional financing sources
• Gain practical insights into mechanism of credit assessment done by banks and credit rating agencies

Supply Chain and Trade Finance
• Understand the components of working capital requirements and financing needs of a corporate
• Gain in-depth understanding of cash conversion cycle, days payable outstanding, days sales outstanding
• Familiarize yourself with methods of payments in trade finance – letter of credit, bank guarantee, discounting,etc.
• Learn about instruments in trade finance such as buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, pre- and post-shipmentcredit, factoring and forfaiting
• Familiarize yourself with legal terms and regulatory

Investment Management
• Familiarize yourself with the concept of investment management focussing on liquidity, credit and market riskacross investment products
• Familiarize yourself with specific nuances of each investment product across categories like debt and equity
• Understand investment management philosophy and objectives for different types of corporate bodies –corporates - cost and profit centre, banks, Insurance, NBFCs and AMCs
• Learn about the investment management attributes on building an investment policy
• Gain practical insights on corporate portfolio management

Financial Risk Management
• Understand financial exposures related to FX, commodity and interest rate
• Interpret impact of financial exposures due to price movements
• Get acquainted with the application of risk mitigation techniques including forwards, options, swaps
• Gain practioner’s insight into end-to-end transaction life-cycle of derivative instruments executed by a company
• Understand methods of deciding company’s risk appetite and the process of determining hedge ratios

Data Analytics and Visualisation
• Understand the fundamental concepts of data analytics and big data
• Learn about the various forms and types of data such as structured and unstructured data
• Familiarize yourself with advanced analytical concepts like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Understand the step-wise approach for implementing analytics
• Gain in-depth understanding of the importance of data visualisation
• Learn storytelling with data

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