Introduction to Treasury 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

Anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of cash management.

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