In the radically changing economic environment, treasury is both central and critical to many of the key tasks facing a CFO – managing FX risks, ensuring availability of credit, driving working capital efficiency and restructuring banking relations to work in a shared services environment. This workshop provides practical examples of the best practice used by multinationals to meet these challenges. A high-level introduction to today’s critical topics and it is ideal for a CFO new to treasury management or as a refresher to update your current knowledge and set the agenda for 2012.

Examine the concepts of risk management and how they should be applied across organisations in principle. The common risk management responsibilities of the treasury function (financial risk) will be explored in detail from a practical perspective. The objective is for you to be able to design and implement a risk management programme and understand how to put effective risk mitigation strategies into operation.

Hot off the press, as the IASB will have just released the latest section of IFRS 9, covering derivatives and hedge accounting, this course will take you through all you need to know about the changes that have been made to IAS 39’s requirements. The objective of the course is to give treasurers a comprehensive overview of the latest changes in the accounting standards which affect them, with a particular focus on the most complex practical challenges associated with the revised and simplified hedge accounting rules, the opportunities these bring for treasurers and how they can best be implemented.

Obtaining visibility in cash, foreign exchange and other treasury forecasts

While many companies acknowledge the importance of forecasting cash, too often these initiatives fail to realise the full potential and achieve added value. This course aims not only to address the common pitfalls of forecasting cash, but will look at the wider picture of treasury forecasting. We will cover some of the forecasting models and tools commonly used as well as best practices applied by some of the leading companies. Applying a healthy balance between theory and practical examples, we will show how comprehensive treasury forecasting can assist treasurers to obtain better visibility and improve overall decision making.