Treasury Management

• Delegates who have either a direct input into Treasury activity or delegates who have a responsibility for overall financial management and who are seeking innovative and best practice Treasury Management methodologies.

Course objectives

• To understand the role and impacts of effective Treasury Management
• To develop balanced treasury portfolios
• To effectively manage risk both in treasury and within the fraud arena
• To measure and manage fraud reduction
• To effectively report internally and externally
• To ensure compliance with Basel 2 and IFRS legislation

Course content

The Role and Function of Treasury

• Understanding the role and function of treasury – key outputs
• Overview of financial strategies for treasury
• Opportunity cost and financial modelling within treasury
• Ensuring Basel 2 and IFRS compliance within treasury strategy
• Governance and Fraud management within Treasury

Strategic Treasury Management

• The Strategic planning process roadmap – end to end process map
• Aligning treasury strategy with overall organisational goals
• Building balanced portfolios – geographic spread, asset spread
• Measuring risk and reward

Practical Treasury management

• Critical success factors in implementation
• Effective controls throughout implementation – operational, financial
• Stakeholder and Public reporting and communication
• Practical session – delegates will construct a balanced treasury strategy
• Policy evolution and development for the future

Effective Risk Management within Treasury

• Market risk factors
• Credit risk factors
• Liquidity risk factors
• Developing effective risk management strategies

Risk Management – Use of Financial Instruments

• The concept of hedging
• Building effective hedging strategies
• Hedging instruments – FX pairs, commodity, sector approach
• Action planning – delegates will create a personal and departmental action plan utilizing the learning from the previous four days