Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Accounting and Finance

CPDLL’s suite of accounting and finance short courses, offers you access to some of the most current and relevant accounting and finance content. Whether you are pursuing your ACCA certification or looking for opportunities to progress in your career in the accounting and finance arena; with courses like Advanced Financial and Retirement Planning, and Applied Credit Scoring using Matlab and Python, you are guaranteed to benefit from highly practical and easily transferable knowledge, developed and delivered by industry experts.

Accounting and Finance

Applied Credit Scoring Using Matlab and Python

Applied Credit Scoring Using Matlab and Python

Overview

World class financial institutions can base much of their past and ongoing success on the ability to accurately identify potential defaulters through cutting edge risk assessment and credit scoring. This workshop introduces you to the theories and methods of quantitative risk assessment and credit scoring in a practical business context. Not only will you be trained to build effective credit scoring models in Matlab and/or Octave, but the tools presented in quantitative credit risk assessment can be extended to other risk assessment issues and challenges within organisations to maximise performance and outcomes.

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face

What will I Learn?

On successful completion of the course, delegates should be able to:
  • Explain what credit scoring is and why it is important; 
  • Outline the scorecard development process;
  • Discuss a variety of related data collection and sampling issues;
  • Identify the key statistical issues in development methodology and performance evaluation;
  • Build practical credit scorecards using Matlab/Octave.

Who Should do this Course

Credit managers, credit officers, computer scientists, business managers, data analysts and entrepreneurs.

Important Information

The course fee includes lunch daily.

At a Glance

  • Admissions Term: 2019/2020 Semester II
  • Registration: Closed
  • Date: TBA
  • Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm
  • Duration: 2 days (15 hours)
  • Certificate Awarded: Certificate of Completion
  • CRN: 24876
  • Course Code: PDLL134
  • Capacity: 20
  • Cost: BDS $2,660 (US $1,330)

The following topics will be addressed:

  • Introduction and objectives
  • The lending process
  • What is credit scoring?
  • Why do we use credit scoring?
  • How quantitative scorecards are developed 
  • Model development using Matlab/Octave
  • Data collection and sampling
  • Scorecard performance evaluation

No prior knowledge is required or assumed in this course.

This course consists of two eight-hour lectures and two one-hour tutorials per week.

Terry Harris, PhD

Dr. Terry Harris is currently an Assistant Professor at Durham University Business School and has a BSc in Computer Science and Accounting and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of the West Indies. Over his academic career, Dr. Harris has taught extensively in the fields of Accounting, Finance and Computer Science.