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PNB SO Credit Officer Study Plan

Published on Wednesday, May 24, 2023



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This plan is based on PNB Specialist credit officer course 2023 by Team BankExamsToday

Week 1-7

  • Financial Awareness: RBI Circulars (last 6 Months)
  • Financial Awareness: Quiz (last 6 Months)
  • Go through the Financial Awareness course

Week 1 

Quantitative Aptitude


Day 1
  • Percentage and Interest
  • Approximation

Day 2
  • Partnership
  • Profit and Loss


Day 3
  • Time and Work
  • Pipes and Cisterns

Day 4
  • Time, Speed and Distance
  • Problems on Trains
  • Boats and Streams

Day 5-6-7
  • Data Interpretation
  • Data sufficiency

Week 2

Quantitative Aptitude

Day 1
  • Number series

Day 2
  • Ratio and proportions
  • Mixtures and alligation

Day 3
  • Quadratic equations

Day 4
  • Data Interpretation practice

Week 2

Reasoning

Day 5
  • Blood Relation

Day 6
  • Syllogism

Day 7
  • Inequalities

Week 3

Reasoning

Day 1-2
  • Puzzles

Day 3-4
  • Seating arrangements

Day 5
  • Coding-Decoding
  • Direction and Distance

Day 6
  • Statement and Assumptions
  • Statement and Conclusion
  • Cause and Effect
  • Statement and Argument

Day 7
  • Machine Input Output

Week 4

English language

Day 1-3
  • Read English Grammar notes

Day 4-7
  • Practice Reading comprehensions
  • Practice all types of questions

Week 5

Working Capital Management
  • Need for working capital
  • Cash cycle

Ratio analysis
  • Liquidity ratio
  • Turnover ratio
  • Profitability ratio
  • Solvency ratio

Time value of money
  • The Future Value of a Single Cash Flow
  • The Future Value of a Series of Cash Flows
  • The Present Value of a Single Cash Flow
  • The Present Value of a Series of Cash Flows

Capital budgeting 
  • Discounted Payback Period
  • Payback Period
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
  • Average Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
  • Net Present Value
  • Profitability Index (PI)
  • Investment Decision Criteria

Week 6

Risk Management
  • Concept of Risk
  • Risk Management Process
  • Determination of Business Objectives
  • Identification of Risks
  • Measurement of Risk
  • Types of risks

Derivatives: Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options 
  • Basics of Derivative Pricing and Valuation
  • Forwards and Futures Valuation
  • Forward Rate Agreements and Swap Valuation

Short-term Financing
  • Working Capital Concepts
  • Working Capital Issues
  • Working Capital Cycle
  • Aggressive and Conservative Approach
  • Sources of Short-Term Financing

Long-Term Financing
  • Considerations of Issuers and Investors
  • Sources of Long-term Finance

Money Markets
  • Money Market Instruments
  • Coupon Bearing Instruments
  • Discount Instruments
  • Risks involved in Money Market

Capital Markets
  • Process, types of securities and parties involved
  • Types of bonds
  • Bond valuations
  • Debt and Equity

Week 6-7

Portfolio Management
  • Portfolio Risk and Return
  • Capital Allocation
  • Optimal Portfolio
  • Modern Portfolio Theory
  • Performance Measurement

Yield Curve Analysis
  • Concept of Yield Curve and its Types
  • Yield to Maturity concept
  • Types of Interest Rates and their Computation
  • Yield Interpolation

Duration
  • Concept of Duration and Modified Duration
  • Macaulay duration
  • Effective duration
  • Computation of Duration for different types of bonds
  • Relationship between duration, yield, coupon and maturity
  • Duration of a Portfolio

Convexity
  • Concept of Convexity and its Properties
  • Convexity of a Portfolio
  • Impact of a price change on convexity
  • Positive and Negative Convexity

Interest Rate Options
  • Interest Rate Options
  • Over-the-Counter Options, Calls and Puts on LIBOR Caps, Floors and Collars

Interest Rate Swaps
  • Basic Structure
  • Price Quoting Conventions
  • Pricing & Valuing Interest Rate Swaps
  • Variants of Interest Rate Swap
  • Swaption

Mock Tests

  • Take full-length mock tests from week 6

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