
Course description
ED101 - Economic Development Finance
Participants in ED101, the first course in the EDFP Certification Program™, gain a solid understanding of both the basic tools and newest techniques used by successful economic development finance practitioners to assist small businesses and create jobs. The in-class and fully-online versions of the course explore economic development activities as part of a community’s overall economic development finance strategy and investigate the financing resources available for job creation projects. Participants analyze and structure economic development projects for small and medium-sized businesses as well as commercial real estate developments utilizing incentive financing packages.
Training content
- Economic Development Finance Overview
- Financing gaps in the private capital markets
- Underwriting practices of private sector lenders
- Plugging the gaps with economic development financing incentives
- Implementing financing programs through an economic development system
- Business Credit Analysis
- Financial statement spreading and analysis
- Quality indicators and ratio analysis
- Calculating debt service
- Fixed Asset Financing
- Measuring repayment ability
- Structuring incentive financing
- Real Estate Finance
- Developer’s pro forma income and expense statement
- Measuring return on investment
- Calculating the financing gap
- Economic Development Finance Programs
- SBA 504 and 7(a)
- HUD CDBG and 108
- New Markets Tax Credits
- Revolving loan funds and interim financing
- Loan packaging procedures
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National Development Council
NDC is nationally recognized as the leading provider of training programs for economic, housing and community development finance professionals. NDC Training builds development finance capacity in professionals working at every level and for every sector of the economic, housing and...
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