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| The Certificate in Financial Maths & Modelling qualification and course of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. | | The rise in global temperatures from the mid 20th century to the present. |
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| CertFMM was an elective part of the AMCT qualification from 2006 to 2016.
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| == Overview of the course ==
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| CertFMM equips you with the practical insights and understanding to:
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| - Challenge and use the outputs from models to support important risk management and valuation decisions.
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| - Build and validate models in MS Excel, or on other platforms.
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| CertFMM provides a rigorous integrated set of tools to understand and explain:
| | Any long-term shift in global or regional climate patterns. |
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| * Financial risk
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| * Corporate value and
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| * The fundamentally important relationships between them.
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| The most important benefit of working with these tools is developing the skill to identify assumptions, and the confidence to challenge them.
| | == See also == |
| | | * [[Accounting for Sustainability]] (A4S) |
| This is essential in practice because so many real life assumptions are unstated, unrecognised, and expensively or dangerously wrong.
| | * [[Business & Sustainable Development Commission]] |
| | | * [[Carbon footprint]] |
| | | * [[Climate benchmark]] |
| The emphasis is on the practical investigation of real life problems and opportunities to either:
| | * [[Climate risk]] |
| * Save costs or | | * [[Corporate social responsibility]] |
| * Reduce risk or
| | * [[Metaeconomics]] |
| * Identify pricing bargains.
| | * [[Natural capital]] |
| | | * [[Organic]] |
| | | * [[SRA]] |
| Techniques include interest, foreign exchange and commodity risk modelling.
| | * [[SRI]] |
| | | * [[Sustainability]] |
| The general purpose tools and techniques are then applied to practical case studies.
| | * [[Sustainability Accounting Standards Board]] |
| | | * [[Sustainability bond]] |
| | | * [[Sustainable Development Goals]] |
| The course introduces and analyses the use of options for financial risk management.
| | * [[UK Climate Change Committee]] |
| | | * [[United Nations]] |
| It incorporates the valuation of different types of option using binomial pricing models and the Black Scholes model.
| | * [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] |
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| It also introduces and applies Value at Risk (VaR) measures, their important uses and their even more important limitations.
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| == Course structure ==
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| The course is structured into six units covering:
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| #Financial modelling fundamentals
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| #Applied debt modelling
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| #Foreign exchange modelling applications
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| #Practical derivatives modelling
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| #Options
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| #Applied corporate finance and real option modelling
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| == Financial modelling fundamentals ==
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| These are the nuts and bolts of financial maths and modelling in the five essential areas of:
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| * Practical [[interest rate]] optimisation | |
| * Modelling series of fixed, growing or declining future cashflows, including pension liabilities | |
| * Modelling the term structure of interest rates using no arbitrage | |
| * Expensive misconceptions in statistics | |
| * Value at Risk and its limitations | |
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| The platform used on the course is MS Excel.
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| The principles illustrated and applied are also fully relevant to all other platforms.
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| == Applied debt modelling ==
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| This unit investigates debt in the important areas of:
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| *Present values | |
| *Future cash flows, timing and risk | |
| *Interest rate sensitivity and hedging | |
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| You will gain a deep and broad applied understanding of the relationships between value, risk, maturity, coupon rate and coupon frequency.
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| == Foreign exchange modelling applications ==
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| This unit introduces and applies the key tools to model [[foreign exchange]] (FX) including:
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| *FX quoting conventions | |
| *[[Hedging]] using forward foreign exchange contracts | |
| *Relationships between foreign exchange rates, interest rates and [[inflation]] rates | |
| *Applying [[VaR]] to foreign exchange risk management | |
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| == Practical derivatives modelling ==
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| This covers the maths and modelling of derivatives in:
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| *Derivatives modelling fundamentals | |
| *Modelling long-term swaps | |
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| == Options ==
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| This unit investigates options in depth in the four areas of:
| | [[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]] |
| *[[Option]] payoffs
| | [[Category:The_business_context]] |
| *Modelling option hedges
| | [[Category:Compliance_and_audit]] |
| *Option valuation modelling
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| *Options [[arbitrage]] and the put-call parity relationship
| | [[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]] |
| | | [[Category:Manage_risks]] |
| | | [[Category:Risk_frameworks]] |
| == Applied corporate finance and real option modelling ==
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| The final unit of the CertFMM course integrates the techniques introduced earlier, and covers:
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| *Modelling for corporate finance including corporate valuation
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| *Capital structuring in practice
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| *[[Real option]] modelling
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| === Other resources ===
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| [[Media:The_Treasurer_articles - financial_applications.pdf| Financial modelling applications, The Treasurer]] | |
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Annuity factor]]
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| * [[Association of Corporate Treasurers]]
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| * [[Capital asset pricing model]]
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| * [[Cross-currency interest rate swap]]
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| * [[Day count conventions]]
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| * [[Discount rate]]
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| * [[Dividend valuation model]]
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| * [[Excel]]
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| * [[Financial maths]]
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| * [[Financial model]]
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| * [[Foreign exchange forward contract]]
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| * [[Four way equivalence model]]
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| * [[Interest rate parity]]
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| * [[Internal rate of return]]
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| * [[LIBOR]]
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| * [[MCT]]
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| * [[Model risk]]
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| * [[Present value]]
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| * [[Real option]]
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| * [[Rounding]]
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| * [[Spreadsheet risk]]
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| * [[Swap points]]
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| * [[Value at risk]]
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