Treasury: Unlocking Strategic Capital
Overview
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, treasury is a strategic function critical to liquidity, agility, and decision-making. This course empowers finance leaders to elevate treasury from a compliance task to a driver of capital efficiency and business value. Participants will learn to align treasury policies with corporate goals, optimize working capital, manage FX risk, and use treasury insights to shape executive decisions. Covering both core responsibilities and advanced techniques like hedging and Monte Carlo simulation, the course equips leaders to unlock trapped capital, manage uncertainty, and boost enterprise performance.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify the key responsibilities and strategic contributions of a treasury function in a modern finance organization.
- Recognize the core components of an effective treasury policy and its connection to business risk and liquidity.
- Select working capital levers that improve cash flow and operational efficiency across the value chain.
- Differentiate between deterministic and stochastic risk analysis methods used in treasury decision-making.
- Apply practical techniques for managing foreign exchange exposure and implementing hedging strategies.
This course includes practical exercises, mentor insights, and scenario-based questions to reinforce learning and ensure participants can apply key concepts in real-world finance leadership situations. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a CPD-accredited certificate.
Lessons:
Lesson 1: The Strategic Role of Treasury
Position treasury as a strategic partner by aligning policies with business goals and mastering core functions like liquidity, funding, and capital efficiency.
Lesson 2: Working Capital Optimization
Unlock internal cash by mastering working capital levers—collections, supplier terms, and inventory—to improve liquidity, boost cash conversion, and fund growth without external capital.
Lesson 3: Managing Financial Risk
Manage treasury risk with confidence by learning to assess volatility, apply hedging strategies, and use predictive tools to protect cash flow and build financial resilience.
Additional Information
CPD Hours: 2
Field of Study: Management Services
No prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course.
No advance preparation is required.
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
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