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Course Outline
Day 1: Core Cash Management Principles & Daily Positioning
- Overview of corporate cash management
- Defining roles and responsibilities in cash management
- Interactions between treasury, finance, accounting, procurement, and operations
- Distinguishing profit, cash flow, and liquidity
- Analyzing cash inflows, outflows, and liquidity
- Basics of the cash conversion cycle
- Understanding operating, investing, and financing cash flows
- Reviewing bank balances and available cash
- Techniques for daily cash positioning
- Addressing challenges in cash visibility
- Reporting on daily liquidity
- Practical exercise: Preparing a daily cash position
Day 2: Cash-Flow Projections & Liquidity Planning
- Foundations of cash-flow forecasting
- Direct versus indirect forecasting techniques
- Setting forecast horizons and planning periods
- Implementing rolling forecasts and liquidity planning
- Projecting customer receipts and operational payments
- Forecasting debt repayments and capital expenditure
- Handling uncertainty in forecasts
- Scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
- Analyzing forecast variances
- Enhancing forecast accuracy and governance
- Practical exercise: Building a 13-week cash-flow forecast
- Workshop on forecast variance analysis
Day 3: Working Capital & Internal Cash Optimization
- Basics of working capital management
- Optimizing receivables, payables, and inventory
- Calculating Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Calculating Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
- Measuring Inventory Holding Days
- Conducting Cash Conversion Cycle analysis
- Improving collection and invoicing processes
- Managing overdue receivables
- Developing supplier payment strategies
- Evaluating early payment discounts
- Applying inventory optimization techniques
- Implementing cross-functional working capital initiatives
- Practical working capital analysis exercise
- Group activity: Planning for improvements
Day 4: Banking, Payments, Funding & Cash Concentration
- Managing corporate bank accounts
- Maintaining bank relationships
- Reviewing bank fees and services
- Domestic and international payment methods
- Payment approval and authorization controls
- Fraud prevention and payment security
- Segregation of duties and internal controls
- Structures for cash concentration and pooling
- Zero balancing and target balancing
- Intercompany funding arrangements
- Short-term funding options
- Overdrafts, revolving facilities, and loans
- Short-term investments and deposits
- Practical exercise: Comparing funding options
- Case study on payment fraud prevention
Day 5: Cash Risk, Reporting, Technology & Continuous Improvement
- Managing liquidity and funding risks
- Assessing counterparty and banking risks
- Identifying operational and payment risks
- Mitigating interest-rate and foreign exchange risks
- Treasury technology and cash management systems
- Using bank portals and treasury management systems
- Automated reconciliation and reporting
- Utilizing cash management dashboards and KPIs
- Developing policies and governance frameworks
- Management reporting and liquidity reporting
- Integrated cash management case study
- Planning cash management improvements
- Final assessment and participant presentations
Requirements
Participants are expected to have:
- A foundational grasp of finance, accounting, or treasury operations.
- Proficiency with financial statements and cash flow concepts.
- Professional experience in finance, accounting, treasury, budgeting, or related business functions (recommended but not required).
- Basic spreadsheet capabilities for conducting forecasting and analysis exercises.
35 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Fun to talk
Jihan Fadila - BAF
Course - Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Internal Audit
Very practical. Trainer was very flexible in ensuring we meet our needs.
