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EST. 2026 · JOHANNESBURG
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The Ledger Academy

Learn What the Textbooks Don't Teach

Practitioner-built courses in agricultural credit risk, banking analysis, IFRS 9 provisioning and data science — grounded in real SSA market conditions.

8
Courses
3
Free to Start
4+
Hours of Content
CPD
Points Available

Course Curriculum — 8 Modules

Modules 1–2 Free
01 What Is IFRS 9 and Why It Changed Everything for Banks 28 min
02 Agricultural Credit Risk: What Makes It Different 34 min
03 📄 Staging Criteria in Seasonal Portfolios: The Rules & the Grey Areas 42 min 🔒
04 Building a PD Model for Agri Borrowers: Data Sources & Pitfalls 55 min 🔒
05 ECL Overlays: When Your Model Doesn't Know About Drought 38 min 🔒
06 📊 LGD & Collateral Valuation in Agricultural Portfolios 44 min 🔒
07 Forward-Looking Information: SAFEX, SAWS and Climate Data 36 min 🔒
08 📄 Audit Readiness: Documenting Your ECL Methodology 30 min 🔒

All Courses

Foundational
Agri Finance

Reading an Agricultural Loan Application: A Practitioner's Guide

What to look for beyond the numbers — cashflow seasonality, crop risk, collateral quality and off-balance-sheet exposure.

Coming soon
Intermediate
Banking

How to Read a South African Bank AFS in 20 Minutes

A structured framework for quickly extracting the key risk signals from any SA bank's annual financial statement.

Coming soon
Advanced
Agri Finance

IFRS 9 Provisioning for Agricultural Credit Portfolios

Full framework: PD estimation, staging, ECL overlays, forward-looking data integration and audit documentation.

Coming soon
Foundational
Data Science

Python for Credit Analysts: From Zero to Portfolio Insight

No coding background needed. Build your first credit portfolio analysis tool using pandas, matplotlib and real SA banking data.

Coming soon
Intermediate
Economics

The MPC Decision: How Monetary Policy Flows Into Credit Portfolios

Trace the transmission mechanism from SARB rate decisions through prime, NII, cost of credit and ultimately to NPL ratios.

Coming soon
Coming Q2 2026
Advanced
Banking

Capital Adequacy & CET1: What Every Credit Professional Should Know

Basel III, SARB Pillar 2, internal capital targets and how they constrain lending strategy — explained without jargon.

Coming soon
Coming Q3 2026
Advanced
Data Science

Clustering Agricultural Borrowers: Segmentation Without Assumptions

K-means, hierarchical clustering and behavioural segmentation applied to agri credit portfolios — hands-on with Python.

Coming soon
Coming Q3 2026
Intermediate
Leadership

Running a Credit Committee: Process, Rigour and Culture

From agenda design to decision frameworks — how high-performing banks structure credit approval to catch what individual analysts miss.

Coming soon
Coming Q4 2026

What Practitioners Are Saying

★★★★★

"The IFRS 9 agri course gave me frameworks I could apply to my portfolio the next morning. Nothing academic about it."

SD
S. Dlamini
Agricultural Credit Manager · Land Bank
★★★★★

"Finally a course that understands that SA agri credit is not Kansas. The SSA context makes all the difference."

AO
A. Osei
Credit Risk Analyst · Standard Bank Ghana
★★★★★

"Python for Credit Analysts got me from zero to running my own NPL trend analysis in under a week. Practical and sharp."

KM
K. Mensah
Portfolio Analytics · Nedbank

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