In today's global economy, credit risk management is emerging as an essential component of business and industry success. In the past, this complex factor has often been overlooked and misunderstood, and many firms have paid the price for not having credit risk management as a priority item in their business policy.

Introduction to Credit Risk Management is a powerful new web-based training tool to help you understand credit risk and teach you what your company can do to bring credit risk under control. Developed using the latest technology the course guides you through the fundamentals of credit risk using practice exercises and self-assessment quizzes to help reinforce key topics introduced throughout the course. Learning objectives are clearly defined at the start of each chapter and there is a comprehensive final test at the end of the course.

Although no prior knowledge of credit risk is required to take the course, participants are expected to have a grounding in trading and hedging. We suggest taking the PrincetonLive.com courses Charting a Course through Commodity Risk, Hedging with Futures and Options, and Understanding the Value-at-Risk Concept, or that participants already have equivalent knowledge.

Please note that the Flash browser plug-in is required to take this course. It is available for free here.