Managing the Cash Cycle Accounts Receivable & Payable Best Practices

Course CodeFI00058

Available Dates & Locations

This course is available in multiple locations and online. Choose the most suitable date and delivery method.

Doha

Dates

Doha

Venue / Hotel

-

Duration
1 Week
Price
€4,725
Rome

Dates

Rome

Venue / Hotel

Piazza Sallustio, 18, 00187 Roma RM, Italy

Duration
1 Week
Price
€6,050
London

Dates

London

Venue / Hotel

82 - 83 Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London SW1V 1PS, UK

Duration
1 Week
Price
€5,775
Sharm El-Sheikh

Dates

Sharm El-Sheikh

Venue / Hotel

Sheraton Sharm Hotel

El-Salam, Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt

Hotel Website
Duration
1 Week
Price
€4,350
Paris

Dates

Paris

Venue / Hotel

3 Rue Taylor, 75481 Paris, France

Duration
1 Week
Price
€5,775
Manama

Dates

Manama

Venue / Hotel

Diplomatic Area 317, Manama | | Bahrain

Duration
1 Week
Price
€4,725
Tbilisi

Dates

Tbilisi

Venue / Hotel

-

Duration
1 Week
Price
€5,775
Barcelona

Dates

Barcelona

Venue / Hotel

La Rambla, 128, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Duration
1 Week
Price
€5,775

Course Overview

This program will provide a leading-edge forum for you to significantly improve your working capital management skills. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented upon your return to work.

By attending this event, delegates will understand:

  • The importance of credit to the company and the economy
  • The “cost of credit” and its impact on company profitability
  • Practical steps that reduce bad debt losses and “uncollectible” debtors
  • How to use different tools and techniques to maximize cash collection effort
  • How to effectively manage cash and working capital to reduce costs and improve cash flow
  • How leading companies from across the globe are achieving best practice in Accounts Receivable
  • The importance of the accounts payable function with regard to its links with the supply chain and cash flow
  • The integrated systems of purchase order processing, stock (inventory) control, purchase ledger and cash payments and their links with the general ledger
  • How to effectively manage cash and working capital to reduce costs and improve cash flow
  • The impact of risk and uncertainty on the business and its impact on accounts payable and cash flow
  • How leading companies from across the globe are achieving best practice in Accounts Payable

Course Objectives

  • Work effectively with the fundamentals of accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial accounting and the supply chain
  • Understand and apply the fundamentals of effective transactional management systems
  • Review and comment on payment methods and cash management
  • Understand the need to incorporate risk and uncertainty into transactional processing and cash flow management
  • Identify best practice across all industries by examining case studies from across the globe

Who Should Attend

This program provides a user-friendly environment to develop the knowledge and techniques related to both accounts receivable and accounts payable that are valuable for:

  • Finance Executives
  • Accountants
  • Others who are working within Transactional Finance, Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable process or who wish to develop a practical toolkit to complement their existing professional or technical skills

This program is also ideal for those wishing to develop their understanding of how Working Capital efficiencies can make a significant improvement to profitability or you may already be employed in any of these functions within the business.

Course Outline

  • Working Capital and Cash Management
  • Understanding “the cost of credit”
  • The ‘order to cash’ process
  • Understanding “risk” in “credit”
  • Accounts Receivable and effective customer service
  • Identifying underperforming areas to increase customer satisfaction

Customers and trading terms

  • Terms of trading
  • Tools and techniques of financial analysis: ratios; trends; common size analysis
  • The best performance measure – cash or profit?
  • Financial distress and the Altman’s Z score-type analyses
  • Trend analysis
  • Value-added analysis of a financial statement