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When the Sovereign Defaults: Protecting a Company Through a Government Debt Crisis

For chief executives, finance chiefs and boards of African companies that deal with governments or rely on foreign currency. Map your exposure, protect liquidity, collect state receivables, manage ratings and lenders, engage on policy and rebuild. Then prove it in a live simulation.

  • Price₦295,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, finance chiefs, treasurers, chairs and general counsel of African companies that supply the state, hold government securities, or depend on foreign currency and local banks.

What you will learn

  • Read the forms of a sovereign default and the channels through which it reaches a company
  • Build an exposure map: direct, banking, foreign-currency, indirect, rating and contract links
  • Protect liquidity: bank spread, payment continuity, credit lines, foreign-currency plans and a thirteen-week view
  • Protect cash owed by the state with legal, commercial and insurance tools, and reduce future dependence
  • Calculate covenant headroom and call lenders early, with a plan, treating all lenders equally
  • Disclose exposure clearly, handle impairment and going-concern questions, and engage on policy through proper channels
  • Look after staff and customers, and set board rules and a strategy for each outcome

Course outline

  1. Reading a sovereign default
  2. Mapping your exposure to the state
  3. Liquidity and the banking channel
  4. Government receivables and contracts
  5. Ratings, covenants and lenders
  6. Investors, markets and accounting
  7. Policy response and engagement
  8. People, customers and social stability
  9. Strategy after the default
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days