A company can be profitable on paper and still run out of cash to pay its suppliers next month — that gap between profit and liquidity is exactly where treasury management operates. This course takes participants through the discipline of managing an organization's cash positions, funding needs, and financial risk, giving them the tools to keep liquidity healthy even when markets or operations turn volatile.

The course covers how treasury functions connect to broader corporate finance, how to forecast and optimize cash flow, how to manage the financial risks treasury teams face daily, and how to build the reporting and technology backbone that keeps all of this visible to decision-makers. Participants leave able to strengthen the financial efficiency of their own organizations, not just describe the theory behind it.

Who Should Attend?

• Finance managers and directors.
• Treasury professionals and analysts.
• Accountants and financial controllers.
• Business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Anyone responsible for corporate cash flow, liquidity, or financial operations.

Knowledge and Benefits
After completing the program, participants will be able to:

• Explain the core principles and functions of treasury management, and how it connects to overall corporate finance.
• Manage cash flow, liquidity, and funding needs with practical, day-to-day skills.
• Forecast cash positions accurately and optimize working capital.
• Apply effective strategies for managing financial risk, including hedging and instrument-based approaches.
• Strengthen decisions on investments, funding, and banking relationships.

Module 1: Treasury's Role in the Organization

• Defining treasury management and its core responsibilities within a business.
• The three objectives every treasury function balances: liquidity, profitability, and risk.
• How treasury connects to financial planning, and its role in maintaining financial stability and supporting growth.

Module 2: Forecasting Cash and Optimizing Working Capital

• Why accurate cash flow forecasting matters, and direct versus indirect forecasting methods.
• Recognizing patterns and seasonal fluctuations in cash flow.
• The components of working capital — receivables, payables, inventory — and strategies to shorten the cash conversion cycle.

Module 3: Day-to-Day Cash Management

• Tools and systems for managing daily cash positions.
• Centralized versus decentralized cash management models.
• Short-term strategies for keeping liquidity optimized.

Module 4: Understanding and Mitigating Financial Risk

• The main risk types treasury deals with: liquidity, credit, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk.
• How to identify and assess these risks, and how market volatility affects treasury operations.
• Hedging techniques and financial instruments — forwards, options, and swaps — plus the role of diversification.

Module 5: Compliance and Regulation

• Key regulations shaping treasury operations: Basel III, Dodd-Frank, and IFRS.
• Risk reporting and compliance standards, and best practices for staying compliant.

Module 6: Investment, Financing, and Banking Relationships

• Balancing liquidity against yield in short- and long-term investment decisions.
• Understanding money markets and capital markets for treasury investments.
• Debt versus equity financing, and how each affects cash management.
• Selecting banking partners, negotiating terms, and managing banking relationships effectively.

Module 7: Technology, Reporting, and Building a Treasury Strategy

• What Treasury Management Systems (TMS) do, and how to select and implement one.
• Core treasury KPIs — liquidity ratios, cash conversion cycle, working capital ratio — and reporting them to stakeholders.
• Integrating treasury operations with overall financial strategy and building a long-term cash and risk management plan.