International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance

Module 0  – Introduction to Treasury Management

Speaker: Benjamin Defays / Treasury Manager

• 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

Module 1 : Payments, Cash Management and Banking Relations – Fundamentals

Speaker François De Witte / Consultant  

• Payment and interbank clearing and settlement methods.

• Payments instruments, processes and tools

• Electronic banking channels

• Working capital, cash and liquidity management – basic concepts

• Day to day cash management

• Organisation of the cash management and tooling

• Financing the company

• Basic insights in managing banking relationships

Module 2 : Risk Management Applied to Treasury – Fundamentals

Speaker: François Masquelier / Group Treasurer

• FX, Interests
• Counter-parties
• Others (Reputation, etc…)
• Objectives of hedge accounting
• Required documentation and formalization of hedge accounting relationships
• Different types of hedges (Fair Value, Cash Flow, Net Investment)
• Booking adjustments of different hedge types
• Typical examples of different hedge types

Module 3 : Trade Finance Applied to Treasury – Fundamentals

Speaker: Benjamin Defays / Treasury Manager

• General contact, cultural aspects
• Why trade finance in treasury
• Bank Guarantees, Burgschafts, Surety bonds, Letters of credit, Cash against documents
• Alternative security instruments
• Disruptive technologies

Module 4 : Credit and Collection Applied to Treasury

Speaker: Benjamin Defays / Treasury Manager

• 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

Module 5 : Cyber-fraud: what you need to know to manage this ever increasing risk

Speaker: Thierry Hamon / Cash management & Cybersecurity expert 

• Getting an overview of the different cyber-attacks techniques currently used
• Understand the possible consequences of cyber-fraud and what needs to be protected
• Learn 50 ways to protect
• Special focus on IT backup, fraudulent emails & disaster recovery plan for treasury
• Co-construction of counter-measure list for all main cyber-attacks
• Personal action plan definition for each participant

Anyone who wants to acquire basic knowledge of corporate treasury and put this knowledge into practice.

• Basic background in finance or accounting
• For the advanced Excel workshop, a preliminary (good) knowledge in Excel is required.

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