Overview

Equipment Finance Course Overview

This Equipment finance course will explore the concepts behind non-real estate capital expenditures to grow fixed assets on the balance sheet. We will identify the sources of equipment financing to understand the different types of lenders before moving on to the differences and similarities between term loans, capital leases, and operating leases.



This course will explain how security filings & public registries work concerning debt and collateral and how these differ for term loans and leases.



We’ll look at eight critical criteria for analyzing and underwriting a transaction and how the different lending structures affect these criteria. After, we will walk through an example client with an operating lease and adjust financial statements to calculate adjusted lending ratios. Lastly, the course will cover additional sale-and-leaseback concepts, financing new and used equipment, and handling non-standard advances.


Equipment Finance Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Identify different financing options for non-real estate capital expenditures,
  • Explain how security filings and public registries work,
  • Define the differences and similarities between term loans, capital leases, and operating leases,
  • Adjust financial statements for an example client that has an operating lease,
  • Calculate adjusted lending ratios for borrowers that use operating leases
  • Explain financing structures for new and used equipment.

Who should take this course?

This Equipment Finance course is designed for beginner and intermediate-level lending professionals, including relationship managers, analysts, and credit adjudicators in commercial banking or equipment finance operations. This content is also highly relevant to loan brokers and small business banking professionals, who are involved in these types of transactions day-to-day. By covering the different elements of equipment finance in specific detail, you will be able to identify better solutions around lending structures for clients & prospects. The exercises and tools explored in this course will be useful for any financial analyst who wishes to work in credit analysis, commercial banking, and other areas of lending and credit evaluation.


Equipment Finance

4.8

Level 3

1h 23min

100% online and self-paced

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This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA®) Certification

  • Skills Learned Financial Analysis, Credit Structuring, Risk Management
  • Career Prep Commercial Banking, Credit Analyst, Private Lending

What Our Members Say

CBCA Course Feedback
Hi CFI Team Could you please add Microsoft Word Tutorial Course in CBCA Bundle . We really need that course in Credit Analyst Profile especially in India . Hope to get a positive response from your end . Regards Anand

Anand Rohilla

Equipment finance
Saw different financial options, explained how security and public registry work , difference and similarities loan types, adjustment on financial statements , calculation after adjustment and viewed credit structures for new and used equipment

fotaw chambeng vivian

Equipment Finance
Lengthy course but so much information.

Malik Muhammad Asim

Equipment Financing
I think this was a very concise and informative course and I would recommend it to others.

Paula Forrest

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