ACI Dealing Certificate Examination Preparation Course

Overview

ACI Dealing Certificate Examination Preparation Course is a one-week intermediate course for treasury dealers, money-market and foreign-exchange staff, operations professionals, and examination candidates, who leave with an ACI Dealing Revision and Calculation Workbook. Participants connect financial markets environment, foreign exchange, money markets, interest-rate products, derivatives, risk, conduct, and market calculations through structured review and exam-style practice. The course is independent, is not endorsed by ACI FMA, and excludes examination registration and outcome guarantees. Agile Leaders Training Center develops disciplined ACI Dealing examination preparation.

Who Should Attend

• Dealing teams responsible for foreign-exchange, money-market, and interest-rate transactions

• Treasury operations teams responsible for confirmations, settlement, controls, and transaction records

• Middle-office teams responsible for position monitoring, risk measures, and limit reporting

• Risk and compliance teams responsible for market conduct and control oversight

• Examination candidates responsible for organizing revision and practicing market calculations

The course assumes participants can perform basic arithmetic and work with financial transaction terminology, and it leaves examination registration, proprietary questions, and advanced trading strategy outside its scope.

Departments and Industries

The course supports functions that transact, control, settle, or oversee wholesale financial-market activity.

• Treasury, dealing, liquidity management, and financial markets

• Middle office, operations, settlements, and product control

• Risk management, compliance, internal audit, and governance

• Banking, investment management, brokerage, and financial services

• Corporate treasury, energy trading, commodities, and multinational finance

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Analyze financial-market structures, participants, transaction lifecycles, and conduct principles

• Apply interest-rate, discount, yield, and forward-rate calculations

• Compare money-market, repo, fixed-income, and foreign-exchange instruments

• Use forwards, swaps, futures, and options for defined market exposures

• Evaluate asset-liability, market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks

• Build an evidence-based revision and exam-style practice plan

Course Agenda

Day 1: Markets, Conduct, and Calculations

• Financial Markets Segmentation and Participant Map

• Front-to-Back Transaction Lifecycle Diagram

• FX Global Code Conduct Scenario Matrix

• Time-Value-of-Money Calculation Method

• Interest, Discount, and Yield Formula Sheet

Day 2: Money Markets and Fixed Income

• Cash Money-Market Instrument Comparison Grid

• Deposit and Discount-Instrument Quotation Method

• Repurchase Agreement Cash-Flow Map

• Yield-Curve and Forward-Rate Calculation Worksheet

• Fixed-Income Price-and-Yield Relationship Model

Day 3: Foreign Exchange Markets

• Spot FX Quotation and Cross-Rate Method

• Forward FX Points and Outright-Rate Worksheet

• FX Swap and Forward-Forward Cash-Flow Map

• Nondeliverable Forward and Time-Option Comparison

• Precious-Metals Quotation Practice Sheet

Day 4: Derivatives, ALM, and Risk

• Forward Rate Agreement Settlement Method

• Money-Market Futures Hedge-Ratio Worksheet

• Interest-Rate Swap Cash-Flow Model

• Option Premium, Greeks, and Delta-Hedge Grid

• Asset-Liability and Risk Exposure Dashboard

Day 5: Examination Practice and Integration

• Exercise: Market-Structure and Conduct Question Set

• Exercise: Interest-Rate and Yield Calculation Drill

• Exercise: FX and Derivatives Scenario Analysis

• Exercise: Risk and Asset-Liability Case Review

• Capstone Exercise: ACI Dealing Revision and Calculation Workbook

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that connect syllabus domains, financial-market mechanics, calculations, risk decisions, and revision planning.

• Suggested activity: calculate deposit yields, discount values, forward rates, and alternative funding outcomes

• Suggested activity: construct spot, forward, swap, and cross-rate solutions from dealer quotations

• Suggested activity: compare derivative payoffs and select hedges for defined exposures

• Suggested activity: complete a timed mock-style set and diagnose errors by syllabus domain

FAQs

Who suits ACI Dealing Certificate examination preparation?

Treasury dealers, market operations staff, middle-office professionals, risk and compliance personnel, and examination candidates suit the preparation. Participants should be comfortable with basic arithmetic and financial transaction terminology.

How does ACI Dealing preparation differ from general treasury training?

ACI Dealing preparation organizes study around the publicly available examination domains and uses targeted calculations and exam-style practice. General treasury training may focus more broadly on organizational policies, cash management, funding, and operational procedures.

What calculations matter in ACI Dealing examination preparation?

Relevant practice includes interest, discount, yield, forward-rate, cross-rate, forward FX, swap, futures, option, and risk calculations. Participants apply formulas to market quotations and transaction scenarios rather than memorizing isolated definitions.

Does ACI Dealing preparation include official examination registration?

No. The independent course supports preparation only; it does not include examination registration, accreditation, endorsement, proprietary exam questions, or a guaranteed result.

Conclusion

Participants take back an ACI Dealing Revision and Calculation Workbook containing domain maps, formula sheets, worked market cases, error records, and a revision plan. It makes strengths and gaps visible across markets, products, conduct, and risk. Treasury professionals can use it to organize continued study and practice calculations with greater consistency.