Treasury and Cash Management Training Course

Course Overview:

The Treasury and Cash Management Training Course prepares the participants with complexity in managing financial risks, operational cash flows and treasury functions.

At the commencement of the course, participants will be able to develop their financial management skills concerning liquidity management, liabilities and assets management.

They will also understand how to manage risks associated with foreign currencies, interest rates, credit and commodities pricing. The course addresses basic treasury activities such as establishing a corporate treasury structure, managing cash inflows and outflows, and applying risk management techniques including hedging and diversification.

Participants will also study the contribution of capital markets, debt and financial ratios and the role of financial statements in IFRS. 

This course targets especially those who take financial decisions, management, and specialists involved in treasury dealing and risk management.

Course Objectives:

By the end of Treasury and Cash Management training Course, participants will be able to:

• Enhance financial management skills for managing liabilities, liquidity and assets issues
• Demonstrate the diverse types of risks linked with global organizations specifically exchange, interest, credit and commodity pricing risks and sources identification and risk management methodologies
• Identify the responsibilities, roles, strategies and tools linked with treasury management including international procedures and best practices
• Analyze the basic fundamentals of cash management to improve organizational cash flows and boost portfolio investment returns.

Who Should Attend?

This Treasury and Cash Management Training Course is Ideal for:

• Financial decision-makers and managers
• Professionals who are responsible for the execution of financial decisions
• Professionals who are responsible for cash management and treasury functions
• Professionals who are willing to enhance their careers in the field of finance
• Supervisory professionals who are responsible for monitoring financial risks namely credit, liquidity, exchange rate or interest rate risks

Course Outlines:

Corporate Treasury Today

• The importance of cash and liquidity management
• Trends in today’s treasury market
• Organization and structure of treasury in MNCs
• Managing treasury as a global process
• The changing role of the corporate treasurer
• Centralizing treasury functions
• Treasury in an ERP world
• Passive or active treasury models

Risk Management Strategies in Treasury

• The right treasury policy
• Identifying exposures and strategies to manage them
• Categories of Financial Risk
• Understanding the instruments for hedging and risk mitigation
• Defining an appropriate Hedging strategy
• Transactional, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet Hedging
• Risk models – VAR
• Risk management frameworks and the control environment

(Market risk, Liquidity risk and Currency risk)

Practical Treasury Management

• Preparing cash flow statements
• Using ratio analysis
• Raising finance – debt versus equity
• The weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
• Establishing investment criteria and objectives
• Investment strategies; passive, active, matching, outsourcing and risk-reduction
• Balanced diversification across asset classes, geographic spread, currencies etc.
• Risk appetite

Capital Markets Role and Regulation

• Functions of the capital markets, compared with money markets
• Role of the primary market
• Role of the secondary market
• Aims, objectives, players and structures of market regulation
• Types and characteristics of equity
• Equity valuation methods
• Fixed income (debt) instruments – government and corporate bonds
• Valuing fixed income instruments

Effective Financial Analysis

• The main sources of information for financial analysis purposes
• The main financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Income statement ratios; common size, profit margin, return on equity etc.
• Balance sheet ratios; quick ratios, current ratios, debt to equity and more

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