Evaluating a Borrower’s Repayment Ability from Cash Flow, Collateral, and Guarantees

  • 15
  • April 2025
    Tuesday
  • 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

    Duration:  60  Mins

Level

Basic & Intermediate & Advanced

Webinar ID

IQW25D0503

  • Upon completion of this webinar, the participant will know how to determine a borrower’s repayment ability from cash flow, collateral, and guarantors for repayment ability:
    • Global Cash Flow Analysis Methodology utilizing financial statements, tax returns and credit reports of commercial borrowers and individuals
    • Comparison of operating cash flow to the more inaccurate traditional cash flow (profits plus depreciation) and EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) method of determining cash flow
    • A free cash flow method which can convert EBITDA into operating cash flow
    • Incorporation of guarantors’ cash flow and resources into global cash flow
    • Evaluation of guarantor as a secondary repayment by adjusting guarantor’s book net worth
    • Assessment of collateral liquidation value as secondary repayment source

Overview of the webinar

There is an old saying in credit analysis, “Borrowers pay back loans from cash flow, not profits.”  But it is not just cash flow; it is cash flow from operations  that is the most desirable source of repayment because it is generated by a borrower managing its working capital assets and earning a sustainable profit.  This webinar will explain the difference between profits and cash flow as well as cash flow from operations vs. cash flow from financing and investing activities.  After all, borrowing from another lender or liquidating fixed assets to pay you back ultimately hurts the long-term viability of the borrower.  However, lenders are cautious risk-takers, and so they routinely take collateral and require owners to guarantee just in case cash flow fails.

Who should attend?

  • Commercial Bankers
  • Commercial Real Estate Lenders
  • Credit Analysts
  • Credit Department Staff
  • Loan Underwriters
  • Loan Review Officers
  • Credit Department Managers
  • Senior Lenders
  • Chief Credit Officers

Why should you attend?

Credit analysts, underwriters, and lenders are expected to assess a borrower’s ability to repay from its operating cash flow, collateral, and guarantors, but are they making that assessment accurately and consistently?

Bankers hope that a borrower’s business generates enough cash flow to repay principal and interest, and the assets acquired with the borrowed funds usually are taken as collateral, e.g., inventory, equipment, real estate, etc.  The owners of the business are also expected to guarantee the loan as additional support.  Is there enough cash flow to repay, and if the borrower’s operations falter and the borrower defaults, is the collateral’s liquidation value and the guarantors’ adjusted net worth sufficient to pay off the loan?

This session offers guidance on how to estimate a reliable operating cash flow, collateral liquidation value, and guarantor  adjusted net worth.

Faculty - Mr.Dev Strischek

A frequent speaker, instructor, advisor and writer on credit risk and commercial banking topics and issues, Martin J. "Dev" Strischek is principal of Devon Risk Advisory Group based near Atlanta, Georgia.  Dev advises, trains, and develops for financial organizations risk management solutions and recommendations on a range of issues and topics, e.g., credit risk management, credit culture, credit policy, credit and lending training, etc. Dev is also a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB’s) Private Company Council (PCC).  PCC’s purpose is to evaluate and recommend to FASB revisions to current and proposed generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that are more appropriate for privately held firms.  He also serves as the PCC’s representative to FASB’s Credit Losses Transition Resource Group supporting the new current expected credit loss (CECL) standard. Dev is the former SVP and senior credit policy officer at SunTrust Bank, Atlanta. He was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering credit policies for SunTrust’s wholesale lines of business--commercial, commercial real estate, corporate investment banking, capital markets, business banking and private wealth management.

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