This course covers Financial Ratio Deterioration, which involves assessing changes and declines in key financial ratios to identify emerging credit risks and potential deterioration in borrower creditworthiness within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on evaluating trends in liquidity, leverage, profitability, coverage, efficiency, and cash flow ratios to detect weakening financial performance, reduced debt-servicing capacity, and increasing vulnerability to financial stress. The course examines how adverse movements in financial indicators can serve as early warning signals of deteriorating business health and heightened exposure risk. 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 identifying material ratio deterioration, understanding its underlying drivers, benchmarking performance against historical and industry trends, and determining the significance of observed changes for ongoing credit monitoring. It is distinct from broader credit management processes, as it focuses specifically on the identification and assessment of financial deterioration signals for existing exposures, rather than broader strategic credit planning, underwriting, or portfolio management activities. Within Early Warning Signal Identification, the credit manager validates team-level analysis, approves case recommendations, and manages segment-level exposure within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance, shaping escalation scope, monitoring priorities, and risk mitigation actions based on emerging financial deterioration concerns.