Working Capital & Cash Flow Management

In the modern financial world it is vital to appreciate the complex relationships between any organisation’s many functions. These relationships need to be understood right from when strategies are “rolled out” regarding cash flow through to when cash is actually received or paid.

Online Course on Working Capital Optimisation and
Cash Flow Management

Our course on Working Capital Optimisation and Cash Flow Management looks at how Working Capital Optimisation and Cash Flow Management works through supply and reverse supply chains, inventory, and demand chain transformation.

Working Capital Optimisation and
Cash Flow Management enables learners to

• Look at various aspects of the supply chain including commercial terms, discount structures, payment scenarios, and rights of lien and asset ownership
• Understand how to minimise work in progress as it can take up space and shorten shelf life and represents uninvestable capital
• Monitor and analyse stock to avoid it becoming a liability
• Consider the use of the demand chain, such as commercial terms, compliance to these terms and credit rating agencies
• Understand the reverse supply chain, the “green agenda” and corporate social responsibility

Learning outcomes of Working Capital Optimisation and
Cash Flow Management

Supply Chain
• What is the supply chain?
• Valuing your suppliers
• Commercial terms with suppliers
• Payment scenarios
• Developing discount structures
• Applying payment scenarios to different suppliers
• Reverse factoring

Work in Progress
• What is work in progress?
• Calculation and policies regarding revenue recognition
• Expenses and overheads
• Provisions
• Cash milestone payments

Stock
• What is stock?
• Provisions – obsolescence and degradation
• Valuation
• Returns to suppliers

Demand Chain
• What is the demand chain?
• Commercial terms of orders
• How orders should be won through a bid/no bid process
• The compliance to orders terms
• Financing of debtors
• Credit rating agencies, reports and categorisation

Reverse Supply Chain
• What is the reverse supply chain?
• The “green agenda” – recycling, landfill, refurbishment & environmental pollution
• Corporate social responsibility

Interactive online course

Working Capital & Cash Flow Management for Accountants is part of our interactive issues and debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today’s changing market.

Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

Target audience for Working Capital Optimisation and
Cash Flow Management

This course is designed to appeal to accounting and finance professionals working at all levels.

About the Author of Working Capital Optimisation and
Cash Flow Management

John Mardle is managing director and owner of Pharos Informatics Ltd, a company formed in 2001 to formulate the seamless integration of human resources and process systems in companies undergoing significant transformational change in the area of Working Capital. Pharos is a partner of Develin and Partners – whose managing director is Brian Plowman, also an accountingcpd.net author – and develops the strands that ensure successful implementation and execution of a given strategy.

Prior to this John was Finance Director of Parsons Group International and part of ABB’s executive management team where he supported the transition phases required of acquired companies to become compliant with ABB’s ethos and culture as it built to be the largest engineering company in the world.

Whilst Finance Director of Parsons Group International John was responsible for winning project management contracts with Channel Tunnel Rail Link, London Underground and bidding for Network Rail when it became a company limited by Guarantee.

Flexible learning

Learners take their own route through the topics covered in the course. They will learn at their own pace through a variety of activities designed to accommodate a range of learning styles.

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You can access each course as many times as needed for 12 months from the date of first access.

Length of courses

Each course takes approximately 4 hours to complete.

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Once you’ve completed the course you will be able to claim 5 verifiable CPD hours, if required.

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