Training: Get the Most Out of AspectCTRM with Aspect
Academy Training Courses

Training Modules

Front Office

• Understand AspectCTRM fundamentals and system navigation
• Customize your profile with personal settings
• Learn how to capture physical deals, understand parcel management and capture paper trades
• Capture deal-related and standalone costs. Analyze costs using dedicated reports
• Analyze MtM positions
• Monitor real-time P&L using dedicated reports from price capture to advanced P&L reports
• Track historical P&L snapshots utilizing end-of-day procedures which also produce daily and monthly P&L change results
• Set up security and manage system administration

Back Office

• Learn about financial control and planning
• Manage receipt and payment of invoices
• Validate and confirm settlement records
• Configure counterparty credit risk

What If

• Learn how to create scenarios to analyze P&L based on different pricing rules
• Set up scenarios to determine if trade is more profitable being bought/sold in a different location
• Create scenarios to change parameters of a single trade to see impact on P&L and exposure

Template Management

• Create templates to support faster physical trade and cost entry for standard contracts
• Manage template accessibility and administration

Bespoke Custom Reports and Basic Scripting

• Learn how to create bespoke reports for exporting to external systems
• Create custom reports for management
• Learn how to use scripting to import data from spread sheets directly into Aspect

Advanced Risk Management

• Configure VaR risk parameters and learn how to manage VaR related reports
• Learn about pricing groups
• Learn how to capture option deals and manage interest rates and volatility surfaces
• Manage option P&L and exposure using dedicated reports

Advanced OLAP

• Learn how to configure views to analyze P&L, Position, Pricing, Greeks, Quantity or any combination of measures
• Bookmark reports for personal or shared access

Trader P&L Report

• Enable traders and deals desk personnel with this dedicated P&L report to discuss trading strategies and P&L movements
• Bookmark reports for personal or shared access

Physical Operations

• Learn how to define physical inventories and mange contract information and rental costs
• Plan receipt and dispatch of product in and out of inventory
• Analyze stock and capacity projections
• Manage inter-tank movements and actualize supply and demand
• Run inventory valuation reports and produce other storage reports
• Create and track shipments
• Create net-outs and book-outs