• Understand the meaning and significance of working capital and its management.

• Learn key liquidity ratios to evaluate a business’s working capital position.

• Calculate and analyze the working capital operating and financing cycles using published accounting data.

Introduction to Working Capital Management

• Significance of Working Capital Management

  • Key Role of Working Capital Management

  • Cash Flow and Profit Relationship

  • Balancing Risk and Return

Fundamentals of the Working Capital Cycle

• Basics of the Working Capital Cycle

  • Cash Conversion Cycle

  • Inventory Management

  • Debtors and Days Sales Outstanding

  • Creditors and Days Payable Outstanding

Theoretical Approaches to Working Capital Optimization

• Concepts for Working Capital Optimization

  • Economic Order Quantities

  • Process Improvement Techniques

Practical Techniques for Working Capital Optimization

• Basic Practices for Efficient Working Capital Management

  • Credit Control Strategies

  • Stock Control Methods

  • Debtor Management and Cost Implications

  • Management Reporting with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Advanced Strategies for Working Capital Management

• Advanced Practices in Working Capital Optimization

  • Treasury Procedures

  • Technological Solutions for Working Capital

  • Effective Payment Systems Management

  • Comprehensive Cash Flow Management

  • Outsourcing Debt Management

Financing Options for Working Capital

• Exploring Working Capital Financing Solutions

  • Supplier Financing

  • Alternative Receivables Funding

Analyzing the Opportunity Cost of Capital

• Opportunity Cost of Capital and Credit-Related Systems

  • Calculating the Opportunity Cost of Capital Rate

  • Understanding the Credit-Related Fund System

  • Development of Related Financial Theories

Strategic Impact of Credit Policies on Working Capital and Profitability

• Evaluating Strategic Credit Policies

  • Effective Pricing and the Creditor Firm

  • Impact of Alternative Credit Policies on Working Capital and Profitability

Transfer Your training path continues in your participant space. Log in to access resources, self-assess your skills acquired during your training, and facilitate the implementation of your commitments in your professional context.

• Numerous practical examples illustrating the different studied concepts

• Practical cases carried out in Excel by the participants at each key stage of the training

• Accountants

• Business managers

• Finance managers

• Cash managers

• Business owners

• Finance professionals

• Non finance managers

• Training structured around skill transfer

• Acquisition of operational skills through practice and experimentation

• Collaborative learning during synchronous sessions

• Multi-stage learning path to allow engagement, learning, and transfer

• Training promoting participant engagement for better anchoring of lessons

• Skill evaluation will be conducted throughout the training by the participant (self-evaluation) and/or the trainer according to the training methods.

• Online training evaluation on your participant space:

  • Immediate evaluation at the end of the training to measure your satisfaction and perception of skill improvement against training objectives. With your agreement, your overall rating and comments will be published on our site via Verified Reviews.

  • Post-training evaluation 40 days later to validate the transfer of your acquired skills in the workplace

• Attendance tracking and issuance of an individual training certificate or a certificate of completion