Cash Management

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the workshop, participants would be able to:

• Learn to truly understand why corporate business models need cash management functions, how they measure liquidity performance and they settle intermediary transactions
• An applied approach to teaching the application of cash management banking instruments to customers’ requirements through case studies
• Learn how to review companies and their financial statements to identify cash management opportunities
• Show how cash management impacts a firm’s valuation by comparing a firm with a good cash management structure program and the same business with a dysfunctional cash management program
• Look at how to apply these different facilities to various commercial cash management problems

Course Outline

Profiling companies for cash - Learn about how to profile companies for cash management by looking at their financial statements

• Introduction
• Selling cash management, the benefits
• Financial Statements
• Financial Ratios
• Forecasting Cash Flows and Growth
• Working Capital Management and Floats
• Receivables Management

Forecasting & Floats – Look at best practices cash flow forecasting, floats and receivables / payables management. Review the models and the banking instruments.

• Payables Management
• Receivables, Payables, Liquidity Templates
• Domestic paper-based payment instruments
• Domestic electronic payment instructions
• Banking services for managing floats
• Foreign Payment Systems
• Settlement and SWIFT

Cash Management instruments – The third part is heavily focused on banking instruments around cash management, how the work and how they are sold to clients.

• Documentary Collections
• The crossover between treasury, trade and cash
• Banking and Treasury Systems
• Pooling and Sweeping Methods
• Cash investment assessment techniques
• Cash Investment Products for yield enhancement