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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
15 Credits: Finance
Course Level
Overview
Format
Self-Study
Course Description
The efficient management of cash flows is a critical challenge in today’s corporate world, where mismanagement can lead to financial distress or missed opportunities. This course addresses the problem by presenting a robust framework for effective cash management, crucial for business sustainability. It agitates the issues businesses face due to poor cash flow forecasting, inadequate systems for cash collection, investment, and disbursement, and the lack of proper risk management strategies. The solution is provided through the course’s comprehensive content, which includes techniques for forecasting cash flows, optimizing cash inflow, managing cash through various systems, fundraising, and managing risks associated with cash handling. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop a comprehensive cash management system, ensuring financial stability and efficiency in their organizations.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the key cash management tasks and who is responsible for them.
- Specify the sources and reliability of information used in cash forecasts.
- State the formats and uses of the bank reconciliation, as well as the types of differences that may arise.
- Cite the information requirements of a cash management system, and the frequency with which this information must be collected.
- Specify the requirements for counterparty risk tracking.
- Identify the control issues associated with a cash management system.
- Recognize the methods available for collecting and processing cash receipts.
- Specify the features of the main cash concentration systems, and the situations in which they should be used.
- State the characteristics of the different methods of payment, and when they should be used.
- Note how positive pay and its variations can be used.
- Recognize the techniques that can be used to reduce the investment in working capital.
- Cite the more common cash investment strategies and investment instruments, and the circumstances under which they should be used.
- Describe the accounting for investment transactions.
- Specify the types of debt funding and the major stock sale exemptions, as well as restrictions on their use.
- Identify the requirements for being classified as an accredited investor.
- Recognize the role of agency financing entities, such as the Ex-Im Bank.
- Identify the main credit rating agencies and the types of credit ratings.
- State the features of and differences between the different clearing and settlement systems.
- Recognize the role of a correspondent bank.
- Identify the main aspects of foreign exchange risk and the methods available to mitigate it.
- Note the impact of netting on hedging activity.
- Identify the main aspects of interest rate risk and the methods available to mitigate it.
- Cite the controls that can be used for the cash management function.
- Specify the ares in which cash management metrics should be employed, as well as how to calculate the key metrics.
Course Specifics
3208048
July 17, 2023
There are no prerequisites.
None
290
Compliance Information
CMA Notice: Western CPE makes every attempt to maintain our CMA CPE library, to ensure a course meets your continuing education requirements please visit Insitute of Management Accountants (IMA)
CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
Meet The Experts
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 300 business books and courses. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast. Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and …
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