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On December 20th, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organizing an online information session

16-12-2022 | treasuryXL |  VU Amsterdam | LinkedIn |

Want to broaden your perspective on Treasury? On December 20th, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organizing an online information session. The postgraduate programme Treasury Management & Corporate Finance starts in February 2023.

The professors, lecturers and international colleagues of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are happy to discuss your possibilities and answer your questions during the information sessions. Visit our next Open Evenings on:

Treasury Management & Corporate Finance:

 

  • PROGRAMME 20 DECEMBER 2022 (Online)

Round I (18:00 – 18:45)

Round II (19:00 – 19:45)

Round III (20:00 – 20:45)

Are you Dutch? There are many more educational programmes available in Dutch.

 

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Embedded Finance Explained, by François de Witte

08-12-2022 | François de Witte | treasuryXL | LinkedIn | As embedded finance continues to evolve, there is an opportunity for treasurers to explore how these developments could help their businesses. The present article explores what embedded finance really means, what’s driving progress in this space, and where should treasurers begin.

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Information Sessions Treasury | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

16-11-2022 | treasuryXL |  VU Amsterdam | LinkedIn |

Want to broaden your perspective on Treasury? In November, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is organizing Open Evenings, at the VU Amsterdam and online, where you will hear more about their postgraduate programs Treasury Management & Corporate Finance and the course Fundamentals of Treasury Management.

The Professors, lecturers and international colleagues of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are happy to discuss your possibilities and answer your questions during the information sessions. Visit our next Open Evenings on:

Treasury Management & Corporate Finance:

PROGRAMME 17 NOVEMBER 2022 (at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) om (19:00 – 19:45)

PROGRAMME 22 NOVEMBER 2022 (Online) (19:45 – 20:45)

 

Fundamentals of Treasury Management:

PROGRAMME 17 NOVEMBER 2022 (at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) om (20:00 – 20:45)

PROGRAMME 22 NOVEMBER 2022 (Online) (20:00 – 20:45)

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Training: Treasury Management and Credit Collections

07-11-2022 | François de Witte | treasuryXL | LinkedIn

treasuryXL expert François de Witte will be giving a treasury training at the House of Training in Luxembourg on 22 November. We would like to highlight this valuable training which is available for only 255 euros!

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Description

In his day-to-day work, the accountant must in particular be able to follow/manage the cash flow and the credit collections of the company. Cash management starts from a different dimension than the accounting perspective, namely that of flows and cash management.

The objective of this training is to give an overview of the treasury dimension, flow and cash management, monitoring of client settlement (Credit Control) and risk management in terms of financing the company. In addition, we will also look at how best to manage the banking reporting, the reconciliation and the bank relationships.

 

Objectives

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:

  • Identify the cash flow components and their interactions with accounting
  • Understand the basics of a company’s day-to-day cash management
  • Optimize flows in the company
  • Manage customer collections and the development of a “Credit Control”
  • Better understand banking reporting and reconciliation
  • Know the organization of a treasury department and its tools
  • Identify basic tools for hedging risks, managing debt and excess liquidity

Programme

  • Definition of treasury objectives
  • Relations and interactions with other departments including accounting
  • Optimizing the management of financial flows in the company
  • Cash and liquidity management
  • Basic cash management techniques
  • Identification and management of financial risks
  • Financing and banking management
  • Technical tools available to the treasurer

Target Audience

Anyone interested in learning how accounting works and understanding corporate cash flow

Prerequisites

Basic financial and accounting knowledge

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RECORDING | Live Session: My Treasury Career Development

17-10-2022 | treasuryXL |  Treasurer Search | LinkedIn |


The recording of the Live Session: My Treasury Career Development & How the Register Treasurer education contributed, is Now Available for You.

Duration: 53 minutes

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If you are thinking about how you can shape your treasury career and need some inspiration, this recording is a must watch.  There are plenty of education opportunities, but in what education will you invest and why?

In this webinar two graduated Register Treasurers will share their stories:

  • 🌟 Jurgen Wessel RT is interim Head of Treasury of SHV and has experience in a variety of international companies at HQ and treasury hub level.
  • 🌟 Frank van der Hoeven RT van der Hoeven used to be a banker, moved to the corporate side and currently is Treasury Manager at IMCD, well-known for many successful acquisition and integration processes.

They will tell you about how they moved between various stations and will pay special attention to the added value of their post academic degree: The Treasury Management and Corporate Finance programme (RT Programme) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).

 

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Enjoy!

Best regards,

 

 

Kendra Keydeniers

Director, Community & Partners

 

 

 

Invitation Open Evening: Fundamentals of Treasury Management | 12 October | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

03-10-2022 | treasuryXL |  VU Amsterdam | LinkedIn |

 

Are you up for the next step in your career? Would you like to further develop your knowledge, skills and professional view of this fast-changing world?

 


The postgraduate programme Treasury Management & Corporate Finance of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers a new course: Fundamentals of Treasury Management.

Join the Online Open Evening on Wednesday, 12 October, 2022 19:00 – 20:00.

This course enables you to review the key financial and organisational issues in Corporate Treasury with attention to current developments in legislation and technology.

Views/opinions of lecturers and discussion with participants may trigger new insights and ideas in your professional practice. This course is meant for treasury professionals willing to test, build and train their professional knowledge base in a more structural way.

Fundamentals of Treasury Management at a glance:

  • Duration: 6 weeks, part-time
  • Start: November 2022
  • Lectures: 1 x onboarding session and 8 x online on Wednesday afternoons & evenings
  • Fee: €  3.250 (for DACT members € 2.750)
  • PE points: 26 PE points

View all admission requirements, costs & lectures schedule

 

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This is what graduates say about the course

 

Ahmed Fathi Ahmed – EMEA Sales Advisory Cash Management – BNP Paribas: ‘

The certification Fundamentals of Treasury Management is an excellent way to build a solid background in a Treasury Management field. Indeed, it allows me to develop a very finest and an efficient toolbox with regards to International Cash Management, Supply chain and Trade Finance. That has helped me to better serve the large corporations that I manage in my company. Furthermore, I was thrilled to meet talented treasurers and professors which expanded my corporate network.’

 

Partners in delivering this programme are KPMG, BNP Paribas and DACT, the Dutch association of corporate treasurers.

 

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Best regards,

 

 

 

Herbert Rijken
Programme director

 

 

 

 

International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance

22-09-2022 | François de Witte | treasuryXL | LinkedIn

The following event, which features our Expert François de Witte, is something we’d like to call your attention to. To learn more about corporate finance and international treasury management, register below.

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Description

 

The treasurer is the custodian of the company’s daily liquidity. He manages, anticipates and secures cash flows by ensuring that financial needs are covered. This cursus will give the ability to assist directly and practically the treasurer of large corporates or to take over the treasury responsibilities in a SME. The different modules will allow you to acquire the fundamentals of the different areas of the “Corporate Treasurer” profession.

 

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

 

Public cible

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

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

Conditions

Training material

Course material will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Location
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg

7, rue Alcide de Gasperi
L-1615 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

 

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Francois de Witte

 

François de Witte

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Treasury learning platform at Finsiders-Academy (Dutch)

15-09-2022 | François de Witte | treasuryXL | LinkedIn

Wij vragen de aandacht voor de volgende opleidingen, waarbij onze Expert François de Witte betrokken is. Namelijk een nieuw intitiatief van Finsiders-Academy om een Treasury opleiding op te zetten, en goed nieuws want de eerste modules zijn klaar!

Wat is Finsiders?

Finsiders is een financieel projectconsultancy bureau dat organisaties ondersteunt in hun tijdelijke nood naar ondersteuning, op vlak van controlling, accountancy, treasury en transformatie. We leveren operationele ondersteuning maar denken ook strategisch mee met de organisatie.  Daarnaast begeleiden we onze consultants uitgebreid met persoonlijke coaching en begeleiding, onder andere via het online leerplatform van de Finsiders Academy. Daar kunnen ze tijds- en plaatsonafhankelijk zichzelf verder ontplooien en bijleren, alsook zich voorbereiden op een nieuw project.

Welke leer modules zijn momenteel beschikbaar?

Op dit moment zijn de volgende modules klaar:

  1. Working Capital Management: https://www.finsiders.be/nl/opleidingen/working-capital-management
  2. Cash Forecasting and Cash & Liquidity Management: https://www.finsiders.be/nl/opleidingen/cash-forecasting-liquidity-management
  3. Financing & Bank Relations: https://www.finsiders.be/nl/opleidingen/financing-your-company.
  4. Globaal packet Cash Management: https://www.finsiders.be/nl/opleidingen/cash-management-opleidingspakket.
  5. Optimizing the Financial Flows: https://www.finsiders.be/nl/opleidingen/optimizing-financial-flows.

Voor wie zijn deze opleidingen extra relevant?

De opleidingen zijn relevant voor finance professionals die een dieper inzicht willen krijgen in het cash en liquidity management.

Wat moeten geïntresseerden nu doen?

Geïnteresseerden kunnen via de website inschrijven voor een e-learning naar keuze. Ze hebben 1 jaar toegang tot het online leerplatform en kunnen op eigen tempo en volgens hun eigen agenda tijdsonafhankelijk aan de slag.

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Francois de Witte

 

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RECORDING | Deep dive session: The Philosophy of the Treasury Management & Corporate Finance programme

07-09-2022 | treasuryXL |  VU Amsterdam | LinkedIn |


The recording of the Deep Dive Session about The Philosophy of the Treasury Management & Corporate Finance programme is Now Live.

Duration: 49 minutes

 

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Since 1998, the School of Business and Economics of the VU University offers the Post Graduate programme: Treasury Management & Corporate Finance. The programme focuses on professionals with an academic background in economics and/or finance and at least five years’ work experience in the financial sector. The philosophy of the programme is to develop ‘Treasury Academic Professionals’, able to analyze complex treasury management & corporate finance issues independently or in multidisciplinary teams and solve and report on them. The programme differs from other programmes/courses in the field of treasury management & corporate finance through the emphasis on developing graduates as ‘Treasury Academic Professionals’ and less emphasis on knowledge accumulating, readily available in the market.

THE 3 PILLAR APPROACH TO BECOME A TREASURY ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

 

SPEAKER INFORMATION

Robert Dekker is Associate Director at KPMG Netherlands. He studied Economics at the University of Groningen and did an Associate’s Degree in Risk Management at the University of Pennsylvania.

He is also programme manager for Risk Management for Financial Institutions and Treasury Management & Corporate Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Professor Herbert Rijken is Full Professor Corporate Finance at the department of Finance at VU University Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD (1993) in Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology.

His current research interests are corporate credit risk, structured corporate finance and economics of corporate governance.

 

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Hogeschool Utrecht | Opleiding Treasury Management Post-Bachelor (Dutch)

10-08-2022 | treasuryXL | Hogeschool Utrecht| LinkedIn |

Je ambieert een functie als financieel directeur van een grotere (internationale) MKB-onderneming of non-profitorganisatie. Maar hoe word je financieel directeur? Die vraag staat centraal in de training Treasury Management. Tijdens vier masterclasses verdiep je je in de belangrijkste onderdelen van treasury management: corporate finance, cash management, valuta- en rentemanagement. Na de training ben je klaar om je ambitie waar te maken.

Je bent nu controller, accountant, financieel adviseur, cash manager of bankier en hebt minimaal drie jaar werkervaring. Jouw kennis uit het financiële bedrijfsleven vullen we aan met alle ins en outs van treasury management. Je start in het voorjaar en sluit de training na de zomer af met een opdracht uit je eigen praktijk. Ook doe je mee aan een treasury management game.

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Opleidingsinhoud

Tijdens de opleiding Treasury Management richt je je op veel praktische vraagstukken. Je houdt je bezig met bankrelatiemanagement, (alternatieve) financieringsmodellen, rentederivaten, rapportages, internationaal zakendoen en meer. Allemaal met maar één doel: ervoor zorgen dat jij je verder professionaliseert, zodat je klaar bent voor die (internationale) topbaan.

Toelating

Om toegelaten te worden tot de cursus Treasury Management moet je een hbo-diploma hebben, net als minimaal drie jaar relevante werkervaring.

Tijdens een adviesgesprek kijken we samen of de opleiding aansluit bij je ambitie én of jij past bij de opleiding. Door de interactieve colleges leer je van elkaar, dus de samenstelling van de groep is van belang. Gestreefd wordt naar een diverse groep deelnemers uit verschillende sectoren van het bedrijfsleven en de non-profit sector.

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Frans Boumans

Docent Treasury Management