Treasury, Cash Flow & Working Capital Management
Core Business Skills for managers, executives and professionals
Duration
5 Days
Format
Classroom &Online
Fee From
$2,950
Scheduled Dates
No sessions of this type are scheduled.
Introduction
- The role and organisation of the modern corporate treasury function
- Short- and medium-term cash flow forecasting
- Working capital optimisation: receivables, payables and inventory
- Liquidity management, cash pooling and funding strategy
- Managing currency, interest rate and counterparty risk
Objectives
- Explain the responsibilities of treasury and how it supports business strategy
- Build accurate direct and indirect cash flow forecasts
- Measure and improve the cash conversion cycle
- Apply practical techniques to optimise receivables, payables and inventory
- Design liquidity structures including cash pooling and in-house banking
- Evaluate funding options and manage banking relationships
- Identify and hedge currency, interest rate and counterparty exposures
Training Methodology
Organisational Impact
- Improved visibility and control over group cash and liquidity
- Cash released from working capital to fund growth or reduce debt
- Lower financing costs and bank charges
- Reduced exposure to currency, interest rate and counterparty risk
- Stronger treasury policies, controls and fraud prevention
- Better-informed funding and investment decisions
Personal Impact
- Build and maintain reliable cash flow forecasts with confidence
- Analyse working capital performance and identify improvement opportunities
- Understand the full range of short-term funding and investment options
- Assess financial risks and select appropriate hedging instruments
- Communicate cash and liquidity positions clearly to senior management
- Strengthen your profile for treasury, FP&A and finance leadership roles
Who Should Attend?
- Treasury managers, analysts and cash managers
- Finance managers, controllers and finance directors
- FP&A and financial planning professionals
- Credit control, accounts receivable and accounts payable managers
- Procurement and supply chain professionals involved in working capital
- Bankers and relationship managers serving corporate clients
- Accountants and auditors reviewing treasury processes
- Business owners and managers responsible for cash performance
Course Outline
- Role, objectives and organisation of corporate treasury
- Treasury policies, governance and segregation of duties
- Cash versus profit: understanding the cash flow statement
- Bank accounts, payment systems and cash visibility
- Treasury management systems and technology
- Case study: diagnosing a liquidity shortfall
- Direct and indirect forecasting methods
- Building a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast
- Medium-term forecasts linked to budgets and plans
- Measuring forecast accuracy and variance analysis
- Scenario and stress testing of liquidity
- Practical exercise: building a cash flow forecast in Excel
- The cash conversion cycle: DSO, DIO and DPO
- Credit policy, collections and receivables management
- Payables strategy and supply chain finance
- Inventory management and its impact on cash
- Benchmarking working capital performance
- Practical exercise: designing a working capital improvement plan
- Cash pooling, netting and in-house banking structures
- Short-term investment of surplus cash
- Debt funding options: overdrafts, revolving credit facilities and bonds
- Covenants, credit ratings and lender relationships
- Bank relationship management and fee analysis
- Case study: building a funding strategy
- Identifying currency, interest rate and commodity exposures
- Hedging instruments: forwards, swaps and options
- Hedge accounting overview under IFRS 9
- Counterparty risk and investment limits
- Payment fraud prevention and treasury controls
- Capstone exercise: treasury risk policy and action plan
Certificates
CLASSROOM
Delegates who complete the classroom course receive the Thinkcloudly Certificate of Completion, with one Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit for every 50 minutes of attendance.
ONLINE
Delegates who complete the live online course receive the Thinkcloudly Certificate of Completion, with one Guided Learning Hour awarded for every 60 minutes of attendance.
Providers and Associations
Original price was: $6,499.00.$5,950.00Current price is: $5,950.00.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn on this course?
How to forecast cash flow, optimise working capital, manage liquidity and funding, and control currency, interest rate and counterparty risk.
Do I need prior treasury experience?
No. A basic understanding of financial statements is helpful, and the course builds from fundamentals to advanced practice.
Do I need to bring a laptop?
Yes. Several exercises are completed in Excel, so please bring a laptop with a recent version of Microsoft Excel installed.
Does the course cover hedging and derivatives?
Yes. Day 5 covers forwards, swaps and options, how they are used to hedge exposures, and an overview of hedge accounting under IFRS 9.
Is the course relevant for smaller organisations?
Yes. Cash forecasting and working capital techniques apply to businesses of every size, and examples cover both large groups and smaller companies.
What will I take back to my organisation?
A 13-week cash flow forecast template, a working capital improvement plan and treasury policy checklists you can apply straight away.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. All delegates who complete the course receive the Thinkcloudly Certificate of Completion, with CPE credits for classroom attendance or Guided Learning Hours for online attendance.
Can this course be delivered in-house?
Yes. We can tailor the content and case studies to your industry and deliver it at your premises, a venue of your choice or online. Contact [email protected] to discuss your requirements.
