New Online Finance course - Treasury Management

Treasury management rose in prominence during the financial crisis. Companies that were best able to manage their cash, investments and portfolios were in much stronger competitive positions than peers who did not implement proper treasury management.

Working with our partner KESDEE, Vast Talent can now offer their thorough (and timely) course on Treasury Management. Its 30 modules give you everything you need to know about how to do this right.

Topics include:

- Interest Rate Risk Management

- Foreign Exchange Management

- Funding and Investments

- How to implement Treasury Management

- Treasury Analytics

...and lots of case studies and interesting background.

How to Manage a Retail Bank

We've just launched a new series of financial training courses on Vast Talent's website, these ones focused on Bank Branch Management.

The online courses have everything you need to know about how to run a retail bank, including sales, marketing, operations, risk management, security, human resources and more. This really is an excellent course for anyone who manages a bank or any banks with large retail presence. The course has 36 detailed modules in twelve topic areas.

Given the pace of expansion at many of China's large banks, the skills required to properly manage retails banks will be very valuable in the coming years.

FRM Exam - only 100 days to go

This year's Financial Risk Manager (FRM) exam, offered by GARP, takes place in just 100 days (on Saturday, November 21st).

So if you haven't started yet, today is the perfect day to start preparing for the FRM exam. Sign up for the test on GARP's website and make a realistic study plan for yourself. The FRM takes many hundreds of hours of study to successfully pass, so pace yourself and make sure you have all the right tools.

As part of your FRM study plan, considering using an online certification course. The diagnostic exams and other interactive features can give your confidence and boost and guide you to success on November 21st.

Good luck with the FRM!

New China SOX whitepaper posted on Vast Talent's website

We just posted a new whitepaper on the Vast Talent China SOX website which details compliance process best practices.

The report focuses on the human elements require to ensure compliance with C-SOX, not just the financial side. It takes readers through a generic process and details how to:

- set corporate internal control objectives
- manage process and control documents
- conduct effective and low-cost staff training
- be ready for the C-SOX audit
- refine and improver internal controls over time.

This is the third whitepaper published so far by Vast Talent on the Basic Standard for Enterprise Internal Control. More to come...happy reading!

China SOX Presentation from APRIA 2009 - video

The team at APRIA 2009 has posted a video of (most of) my presentation on the Basic Standard for Enterprise Internal Control.

The main site with all the photos and presentation from APRIA 2009 is at http://insurance.hexun.com/2009/ytnh/

Enjoy!