The essential subject matter is that the risks faced by financial institutions managers, the methods and markets through which these risks are managed are becoming increasingly similar whether an institution is chartered as a commercial bank, a savings bank, an investment bank, or an insurance company.

This specialist programme in “Advances in Tax Administration, Taxation and Public Finance” is designed for developing economies, and not only focuses on the economic, legal, political and sociological problems these economies face during the transition period, but also addresses the dramatic changes that have to be made to the accounting and financial systems.

All those supposedly life-changing opportunities and choices can, in reality, seem confusing and overwhelming, daunting, dull and depressing. This specially designed programme for intending retirees helps attendees weigh-up and clearly think through all the opportunities and possibilities that retirement is likely to present and it shows attendees how to plan and prepare for retirement times.

This specialised course details the accounting standards that embody societal and professional values and contribute to the distribution of financial benefits that put international harmonization of standards into the limelight. The training helps finance officers develop a sound, broad overview of the subject of accounting, setting the stage for the theoretical and practical issues and debates regarding financial reporting, which are expanded on in the later sessions of the course.

Central to this objective is the reason that financial resources are scarce due to reduced funding to both governments and NGOs by donor agencies, which require a sound financial management system.

At minimum, business managers review budget numbers and run financial reports for decision-making and reporting to shareholders and regulators (usually as often as once a month). Many companies devote the last few months of the calendar year to creating budgets for the next calendar year. In addition, organizations create and disseminate year-end financial reports to investors and sponsors.

This programme combines purely basic aspects of classic computer forensics with the practical side of investigations and the pursuit of digital evidence in the course of litigation.

In the past few years financial management and accounting in the public sector have been characterised by several developments at international, national and regional levels. The most important development was the proposal to introduce accrual-based accounting in the public sector financial management.

It reiterates the primary requirement of banking, i.e. sound capital and liquidity risk management; and provide comprehensive guide to ensuring their presence in a banking progress. It provides delegates with working tools, which will serve as policy guide for practitioners and regulators at all levels.

The course involves a number of sophisticated, but easily understood worked examples; it treats this complex subject in a way that provides clear guidance on the subject.

The course provides a straight forward introduction to the practical application of behavioural finance, by offering an overview of what behavioural finance is all about and incorporating this knowledge into the asset allocation process.

In recent years the foreign exchange markets have gone through dramatic changes which will affect the way in which international business is conducted. The course equips participants with needed skills to guide their decision making process in the major money markets around the world, especially in financial management and control matters.

This course is a comprehensive treatment and analysis of an important financial market discipline, it is essential for all those involved in banking and the debt capital markets. It describes the techniques, products and art of ALM.

The course sheds new light on the current state of pension fund risk management and provides new technical tools for addressing pension risk from an integrated point of view.

This new context is set firmly within corporate governance, risk management, and internal control arena. The course discusses best practices as approved by the Institute of Internal Auditor’s (IIA) using many helpful models, practical guidance and checklists.