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Day 1: Cash Management Fundamentals and Daily Cash Positioning

  • Introduction to corporate cash management
  • Cash management roles and responsibilities
  • The nexus between treasury, finance, accounting, procurement, and operations
  • Profit versus cash flow versus liquidity
  • Cash inflows, outflows, and liquidity analysis
  • Fundamentals of the cash conversion cycle
  • Operating, investing, and financing cash flows
  • Analysis of bank balances and available cash
  • Daily cash positioning techniques
  • Challenges in achieving cash visibility
  • Daily liquidity reporting
  • Practical exercise: Preparing a daily cash position

Day 2: Cash-Flow Forecasting and Liquidity Planning

  • Fundamentals of cash-flow forecasting
  • Direct and indirect forecasting methods
  • Forecast horizons and planning periods
  • Rolling forecasts and liquidity planning
  • Forecasting customer receipts and operational payments
  • Forecasting debt repayments and capital expenditures
  • Managing forecast uncertainty
  • Scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
  • Forecast variance analysis
  • Enhancing forecast accuracy and governance
  • Practical exercise: Creating a 13-week cash-flow forecast
  • Workshop on forecast variance analysis

Day 3: Working Capital and Internal Cash Optimization

  • Fundamentals of working capital management
  • Optimizing receivables, payables, and inventory
  • Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
  • Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
  • Inventory Holding Days
  • Cash Conversion Cycle analysis
  • Improving collection and invoicing processes
  • Managing overdue receivables
  • Strategies for supplier payments
  • Evaluating early payment discounts
  • Techniques for inventory optimization
  • Cross-functional working capital initiatives
  • Practical working capital analysis exercise
  • Group activity: Planning improvements

Day 4: Banking, Payments, Funding, and Cash Concentration

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  • Corporate bank account management
  • Bank relationship management
  • Reviewing bank fees and services
  • Domestic and international payment methods
  • Controls for payment approval and authorization
  • Fraud prevention and payment security
  • Segregation of duties and internal controls
  • Cash concentration and pooling structures
  • Zero balancing and target balancing techniques
  • 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, and Improvement Planning

  • Managing liquidity and funding risks
  • 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
  • Planning for cash management improvements
  • Final assessment and participant presentations

Requirements

Participants should ideally possess:

  • A fundamental 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
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