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understanding theoretical concepts employed in strategic financial planning |
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ability to make practical use of key methods of analysis |
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ability to work with real financial performance data to make conclusions about key parameters of the business in question based on financial indicators and plan necessary changes |
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understanding organizational aspects of investment activity and credit finance |
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 AI PAS certificate is intended to confirm qualification and experience of specialists in the following fields: |
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strategic financial planning |
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business-planning, justification of investment expenses, feasibility studies |
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business plan evaluation |
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investment portfolio management |
| The target audience is mostly managers of financial and planning and economic departments in companies, credit departments of banks, consultants and auditors, and a number of other specializations. In order to fulfill their duties successfully, all them are required to have strong skills in finance analysis, accounting, tax registration, production scheduling, have experience in business-planning and be familiar to the practice of investment process. Speaking about traditional certificates, like CFA, ACCA it is necessary to mention that they are useful, but also include too many non-core disciplines for project analyst while missing a number of vital parameters. |
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Advanced training in projects evaluation, and precisely development of practical skills. |
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Proof of specialist compliance with market requirements — it’s the only certificate confirming skills in projects evaluation. |
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Benefits in employment. Alt-Invest in Russia — is a de facto standard of investment projects evaluation. |
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Opportunity for a specialist to test himself and determine the direction for further learning. |
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Image improvement, specialist’s purposefulness confirmation. |
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Unified time-tested standard of specialists training. |
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The techniques adopted in the majority of Russian banks and corporations. |
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Ability to control the quality of training. |
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Ready to use tool for qualifying specialists. |
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The element of integrated solutions, including techniques, rules, software products. Ensuring that the company will not face the fact that the selected approaches are not universal or not tested. |
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 AI PAS Exam consists of 2 levels: A and B. |
 «B» Level is made for the specialists without work-experience. Certification on B level means that specialist has sufficient knowledge for successful investment project analysis and business planning. |
| «A» Level — confirms not only basic knowledge, but also practical experience and ability to employ theory in real life. Certification of A level requires from a successful candidate to have higher education degree (not necessarily in finance) and at least one year work experience in economical planning, financing, corporate lending and consulting service. It confirms that specialist has all necessary skills and experience for individual investment project analysis and business planning, knows and understands main principles of project evaluation, strategic budgeting and can act as a project manager. |
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 Examination process |
| Written examinations are held in the authorized certification centres. At the moments there are centres in Moscow, St-Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. |
| Applications for certification are submitted constantly. You can register on the website or by sending a request via email. The request must include participant’s full name, position, company name, contact phone, fax, city, date of certification, the preferred form of payment, source of information on certification. To get registration confirmation you need to provide passport information. Examinations are held in accordance with the schedule of certification. |
| All exams are written. Level «A» exam is held in a computer class and with use of MS Excel. |
| Centralized appraisal of results of certification is held by Alt-Invest. That helps to keep the appraisal objective (as scrutinizers never knows the author of the report) and qualified (as some of the answers for A level should be evaluated by an expert). |
| We set a high value on Ai PAS certification and Alt-Invest make all necessary arrangements to provide fairness and accuracy of examinations. |
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 Ways to prepare for the exam |
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Regular seminar The Methodology of Investment Projects Analysis
(trainging, 40 academic hours, 5 days) |
| Distance course The Preparation for AI PAS Certification |
| Level «А»: |
| Training The Preparation of Business-Plan for Investment Project |
Registration |
1.What does the certificate confirm
