Introduction to Treasury Management

Anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of cash management.

This module is part of the certified path "International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance - Fundamentals". It can also be taken independently from the certified path.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Have a good understanding over the corporate treasurer’s responsibilities
• Have notions of cash management (bank account opening, closing, KYC, payments and bank connectivity), liquidity management (importance of working capital management, cash pooling…)
• Have notions of risk management (foreign exchange, fraud, credit risk) and trade finance (general context, intro to bank guarantees and letters of credit)

• Bank account opening/closing
• KYC
• Payments and bank connectivity
• Liquidity structures
• Cash forecast
• Importance of working capital
• Factoring/Reverse factoring
• Main financial measures
• Economic thinking
• Risk Measures
• Hedging
• Fraud risk
• Credit risk
• General context
• Bank guarantees
• Letters of credit

This course include also a part on Trade Finance and Credit and Collection Trade Finance applied to Treasury:

• General context
• Cultural aspects
• Why trade finance in treasury
• Security instruments
• Type of instruments
• Bank guarantees
• Letters of credit
• Cash against documents
• Alternatives

Credit and Collection applied to Treasury:

• Introduction to credit risk management
• Concepts & Practices/Types of credit risks
• Understanding financial statements and ratios
• Credit Scoring/Ratings – S&P, Bloomberg models
• Collection:
  • Collecting overdue receivables – setting priorities
  • Strategies dealing with overdue invoices
  • Debt collection services development

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of attendance delivered by the House of Training.

International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance - Fundamentals