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Additional Credit Monitor Training:
Credit Monitor/Public Firm EDF Training - Online Tutorials
Credit Monitor/Public Firm EDF Training - Online
Credit Monitor/Public Firm EDF Training - Client-Site Customized
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Overview
This one-day training seminar provides a thorough and practical understanding of the public firm EDF methodology and its application using Credit Monitor. Participants learn to use Credit Monitor to analyze default risk of public firms through hands-on exercises. Basic through advanced concepts are explained in an intuitive and interactive format, encouraging participants to ask questions and discuss product-related issues and concepts.

This one-day course is available through public seminars and at client sites. For client-site training, the course may be customized to fit client needs. Request Client-Site Customized Training

Who Should Attend
This seminar is targeted to credit professionals who wish to better understand the Moody's KMV EDF model and its implementation in Credit Monitor, so that they can fully utilize it to analyze credit risk of public firms.

Objectives
On completion of the seminar, participants will:
  • Understand the public firm EDF methodology and its implementation in Credit Monitor
  • Understand the relationship between a public firm's capital structure, its market value of equity, and its market value of assets, and how it is used to calculate its probability of default.
  • Know how to use Credit Monitor to understand the drivers behind a firm's default risk, compare a firm with other firms or peer groups, and do what-if and pro-forma analyses
  • Understand the specific inputs and outputs of the public firm EDF model and Credit Monitor
  • Be able to explain to colleagues the material and concepts covered during training
Topics
  • What is EDF? What causes a firm to default?
  • EDF Drivers: Market Value of Assets, Asset Volatility, and Default Point
  • Calculating Market Value of Assets: Equity as a Call Option on Assets
  • Calculating Asset Volatility
  • Calculating Default Point
  • Combining EDF Drivers to calculate Distance-to-Default
  • Empirically mapping Distance-to-Default to EDF
  • EDF Validation
  • Hands-On Exercises: Analyzing EDF, EDF history, and EDF Drivers
  • Hands-On Exercises: Comparing a firm with other firms and peer groups
  • Hands-On Exercises: What-if Analysis, Pro-forma Analysis
  • Q&A
Materials
Participants will receive a training package with presentation material and reference documents for use during and after the seminar.

Registration Details
Cost:   US$2,000
US$1,000 (MKMV client rate)*

*Client refers to all subscribers of Moody’s KMV products.

To register online for this course, please click on the applicable date in the table below.

Date Location Venue
20 May 2008 Sydney Moody's Analytics Australia Pty Ltd
Level 10, 1 O'Connell Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia
1 October 2008 London Moody's KMV (London)
12 Arthur Street
London EC4R 9AB
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 20 7280 8300
4 November 2008 New York Moody's Corporation
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
19th Floor Training Lab
New York New York 10007
212-553-4500

Note: The table above shows dates only for Credit Monitor / Public Firm EDF Training. To view these dates along with dates for CreditEdge, RiskCalc, and Portfolio Manager trainings, see the combined Risk Product Training Session Schedule - Classroom.