FI22
Course Contents
Module 1 - Introduction to Cash Flow Management
Key Topics
- Understanding the importance of cash flow management
- Fundamentals of cash flow and working capital
- Principles of business accounting and financial statements
- How profit is different from cash flow?
- Analysis of cash flow statement
- The drivers of cash flow, liquidity and solvency
Module 2 - Significance of Working Capital
Key Topics
- Cash flow and working capital
- Recognizing the working capital cycle
- Techniques to improve inventories and accounts receivable management
- Key cash flow and working capital management ratios
- Improving efficiency of the cash cycle
- Enhancing financial systems to improve cash flow
Module 3 - Enhancing Operating Cash Flows
Key Topics
- Significance of operating cash flow
- Cost behavior and cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
- What drivers profits and shareholder value
- Improving return on investment
- Boosting asset management efficiency
Module 4 - Sources of Finance and Capital Budgeting
Key Topics
- Meaning, nature, and significance of business finance
- Sources of business finance
- Analyzing and managing capital structure
- Calculating the cost of capital
- Key principles of capital budgeting
- Capital investment decision-making using the cash flow method
- Discounted cash flow analysis
Module 5 - Techniques of Cash Flow Forecasting
Key Topics
- Methods to managing cash resources
- Cash flow forecasting techniques
- Risk management approach to cash flow forecasting
- Techniques for managing risk
- Sensitivity analysis of cash flow forecasts
- Best Practices in Cash Management.
