Capital Markets Fundamentals

Overview

Understand capital market fundamentals

• Focus on a comprehensive overview of equity finance and debt finance content.
• Learn about how equity finance can be raised through a stock market and how the debt market facilitates the trading.
• Gain practical knowledge about the procedures of issuing shares and the ways in which a company can borrow from a bank.
• Understand decision-making process by focussing on the appropriate financing method to remain a long-term, viable going concern.
• Create a better understanding of how the capital markets are structured and which financing source may be best suited for your company.

Acquire new skills to demonstrate your proficiency

• Characters and sources of debt finance
• Capital markets and their functions
• Advantages and disadvantages of equity finance
• Methods of issuing shares and IPO process
• Difference between bond and bank borrowing

Gain practical experience

Use case studies and scenarios to evaluate business performance and get a deeper understanding of various ways to improve the business performance and align with organisational goals.

This is a standalone course but if you're interested in more of this type of learning while earning a designation, explore the CGMAr Finance Leadership Program.

Highlights

Key Topics

• Long term debt
• Stock exchanges and capital markets
• Types of share issues
• Bond Finance
• Bank finance

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Who Will Benefit

• Global accounting and finance professionals
• Management accounting professionals
• Controllers
• CFOs
• Finance vice presidents
• Finance directors
• CPAs and CAs

Objectives

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the characteristics and sources of debt finance.
• Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of a company listing its shares on a stock exchange.
• Analyse the various methods of issuing shares
• Analyze the difference between bank borrowings and bonds
• Analyse the different types of bank finance available.