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Course Outline
Day 1: Cash Management Fundamentals and Daily Cash Positioning
- Introduction to corporate cash management
- Cash management roles and responsibilities
- Relationship between treasury, finance, accounting, procurement, and operations
- Profit versus cash flow versus liquidity
- Cash inflows, outflows, and liquidity analysis
- Cash conversion cycle fundamentals
- Operating, investing, and financing cash flows
- Bank balances and available cash analysis
- Daily cash positioning techniques
- Cash visibility challenges
- Daily liquidity reporting
- Practical exercise: Daily cash position preparation
Day 2: Cash-Flow Forecasting and Liquidity Planning
- Cash-flow forecasting fundamentals
- Direct and indirect forecasting methods
- Forecast horizons and planning periods
- Rolling forecasts and liquidity planning
- Forecasting customer receipts and operational payments
- Debt repayments and capital expenditure forecasting
- Managing forecast uncertainty
- Scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
- Forecast variance analysis
- Improving forecast accuracy and governance
- Practical exercise: 13-week cash-flow forecast
- Forecast variance analysis workshop
Day 3: Working Capital and Internal Cash Optimisation
- Working capital management fundamentals
- Receivables, payables, and inventory optimization
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
- Inventory Holding Days
- Cash Conversion Cycle analysis
- Collection and invoicing improvements
- Managing overdue receivables
- Supplier payment strategies
- Early payment discounts evaluation
- Inventory optimization techniques
- Cross-functional working capital initiatives
- Practical working capital analysis exercise
- Group activity: Improvement planning
Day 4: Banking, Payments, Funding and Cash Concentration
- Corporate bank account management
- Bank relationship management
- Bank fees and service reviews
- Domestic and international payment methods
- Payment approval and authorization controls
- Fraud prevention and payment security
- Segregation of duties and internal controls
- Cash concentration and pooling structures
- Zero balancing and target balancing
- Intercompany funding arrangements
- Short-term funding options
- Overdrafts, revolving facilities, and loans
- Short-term investments and deposits
- Practical funding comparison exercise
- Payment fraud prevention case study
Day 5: Cash Risk, Reporting, Technology and Improvement Planning
- Liquidity and funding risk management
- Counterparty and banking risks
- Operational and payment risks
- Interest-rate and foreign exchange risks
- Treasury technology and cash management systems
- Bank portals and treasury management systems
- Automated reconciliation and reporting
- Cash management dashboards and KPIs
- Policy development and governance
- Management reporting and liquidity reporting
- Integrated cash management case study
- Cash management improvement planning
- Final assessment and participant presentations
Requirements
Participants should ideally possess:
- A basic understanding of finance, accounting, or treasury functions.
- Familiarity with financial statements and cash flow concepts.
- Experience in finance, accounting, treasury, budgeting, or related business roles is beneficial but not mandatory.
- Basic spreadsheet skills for forecasting and analysis exercises.
35 Hours
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