Strengthen cash flow management and drive sustainable business growth
Strengthen cash flow management and drive sustainable business growth
Strengthen cash flow management and drive sustainable business growth
Course Overview
WCM
Working Capital Management
Manage cash flow, optimize liquidity, and strengthen business resilience through effective working capital strategies.
What You Will Learn
participants will be able to:
- Understand working capital strategy and business impact.
- Analyze and optimize the cash conversion cycle (CCC).
- Improve receivables and credit management practices.
- Strengthen billing and collections performance.
- Optimize inventory and supply chain cash efficiency.
- Manage payables strategically.
- Improve supplier relationship management.
- Forecast cash flow under different scenarios.
- Align business functions to improve cash performance.
- Diagnose working capital challenges.
- Build practical improvement strategies.
- Implement a 90-day working capital action plan.
Who Should Enroll?
This certification is designed for CFOs, finance leaders, controllers, treasury professionals, business leaders, operations managers, supply chain professionals, and managers responsible for liquidity, cash flow, and working capital performance.
Skills You Will Build
- Working Capital Optimization.
- Cash Flow Management.
- Liquidity Management.
- Cash Conversion Cycle Analysis.
- Receivables Management.
- Credit Policy Design.
- Billing and Collections Management.
- Inventory Optimization.
- Payables Strategy.
- Cash Flow Forecasting.
- Cross-Functional Cash Management.
- Working Capital Transformation.
- Working Capital Management.
- Cash Conversion Cycle Optimization.
- Liquidity Management.
- Receivables and Credit Management.
- Billing and Collections Strategy.
- Inventory Optimization.
- Supply Chain Cash Management.
- Payables and Supplier Relationship Management.
- Cash Flow Forecasting.
- Scenario Planning.
Course Outline - Working Capital Management
Module 1: Working Capital Fundamentals and Strategy
- The Bridge Between Profit and Cash
- The Operating Cycle and Components of Working Capital
- Liquidity Versus Profitability: The Balancing Act
- Working Capital as a Strategic Decision
Module 2: Analyzing and Optimizing the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)
- The Cash Conversion Cycle: What It Measures and Why It Matters
- The Three Components: Decomposing DIO, DSO, and DPO
- Computing the Cycle: A Worked Example
- Benchmarking the CCC Against Industry Norms
Module 3: Industry Perspectives on Working Capital
- Why Context Matters: Industry as the First Variable
- Working Capital Across the Three Industry Archetypes
- Asset-Light vs Asset-Heavy: Strategic Implications for Cash
- Benchmarking Working Capital Within an Industry
Module 4: The Strategic Importance of Cash
- Cash as a Strategic Asset, Not a Financial Output
- Cash as a Growth Engine
- Liquidity for Crisis Survival
- Cost of Capital, Free Cash Flow, and Enterprise Value
Module 5: Receivables Management and Credit Policy Design
- Receivables as Invested Cash: The Trade-Credit Trade-Off
- Assessing Customer Credit: The Five Cs and Credit Scoring
- Designing the Credit Policy: Terms, Discounts, and the Growth Balance
- Measuring Receivables Health: DSO, DBT, and Aging
Module 6: Improving Billing, Invoicing, and Collection Processes
- The Order-to-Cash Cycle and Where Cash Leaks
- Billing and Invoicing: Getting the First Move Right
- Collections and Dunning: A Disciplined Follow-Up System
- Automating the Invoice-to-Cash Engine
Module 7: Receivables Analytics and Performance Tracking
- The Receivables Metric Set: What Good Looks Like
- Reading the Aging Report and the AR Analytics Stack
- Dashboards, Benchmarking, and Turning Metrics into Action
Module 8: Inventory Optimization and Supply Chain Cash Impact
- Inventory as a Working-Capital Asset: DIO and the Cash Trap
- The Optimization Toolkit: EOQ, ABC, JIT, and Safety Stock
- Diagnosing Excess Inventory and the Supply-Chain Cash Impact
- Chapter Summary and Review
Module 9: Payables Strategy and Supplier Relationships
- Payables as a Working-Capital Lever: DPO and the Cost of Trade Credit
- The Payables Toolkit: Early-Payment Discounts, Dynamic Discounting, and Supply Chain Finance
- Supplier Segmentation, Relationship Risk, and Building a Balanced Payables Program
- Chapter Summary and Review
Module 10: Short-Term Financing and Funding the Working Capital Gap
- The Working Capital Gap: Why Firms Need Short-Term Funding
- The Short-Term Financing Toolkit: Internal and External Sources
- Choosing and Costing the Right Instrument
Learn at your convenience
*Note: These are self-paced courses, allowing learners to study independently at their own pace.
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