This course covers Financial Ratio Deterioration, which involves assessing adverse changes in key financial ratios that may indicate weakening borrower performance, reduced financial stability, or increasing credit risk within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on identifying deterioration in liquidity, profitability, leverage, coverage, efficiency, and cash flow-related ratios that may signal financial stress, declining repayment capacity, or potential covenant breaches. The course examines how financial ratio analysis supports the early identification of emerging borrower vulnerabilities, strengthens credit monitoring effectiveness, and enables proactive portfolio risk management through timely escalation and corrective action. It evaluates key dimensions such as control lapses, early warning signal identification, risk trend analysis, and proactive portfolio risk management, with each requiring independent validation and documented rationale before any credit action is finalized. Particular emphasis is placed on trend analysis, ratio benchmarking, covenant monitoring, financial performance assessment, exception identification, and governance oversight of borrower financial health. It is distinct from broader credit management processes, as it focuses specifically on identifying and responding to deterioration in financial indicators within existing credit exposures, rather than broader credit origination, portfolio strategy, or administrative activities. Within Early Warning Signal Identification, the senior credit leader sets portfolio limits, governs exception criteria, and drives strategic alignment across the Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance function, shaping escalation scope, risk priorities, and portfolio management decisions through effective monitoring of financial ratio deterioration and emerging borrower risk conditions.