Course Code: M.C.C
Working Capital, Cash Flow & Accounts Receivable and Payable Training
Improve Cash Flow. Strengthen Working Capital. Manage the Cash Cycle Effectively.
Managing the Cash Cycle is a practical programme designed to strengthen participants’ understanding of working capital, cash flow, accounts receivable and accounts payable.
Effective cash-cycle management is essential to maintaining liquidity, controlling costs and supporting sustainable business performance. The programme provides practical tools and techniques that participants can apply in their organisations to improve cash collection, manage payments, reduce working capital pressures and strengthen financial control.
About the Programme
The cash cycle connects several critical business functions, including sales and credit, accounts receivable, accounts payable, procurement, inventory, financial accounting and cash management.
This programme explores how these functions work together and how improvements in transactional and working capital management can contribute to stronger cash flow and profitability.
Participants will examine practical approaches to managing credit, reducing bad debt, improving collections, managing supplier payments and integrating financial and supply-chain processes.
What You Will Learn
Participants will develop an understanding of:
- The importance of credit to businesses and the broader economy.
- The cost of credit and its potential impact on profitability.
- Practical approaches to reducing bad debt and uncollectible receivables.
- Tools and techniques for improving cash collection.
- Effective management of cash and working capital.
- Best practices in Accounts Receivable management.
- The strategic role of Accounts Payable in supply-chain and cash-flow management.
- The relationship between purchasing, inventory, accounts payable and cash payments.
- The links between transactional systems and the general ledger.
- The impact of risk and uncertainty on accounts payable and cash flow.
- Best practices for improving working capital efficiency.
- Effective transactional management systems.
- Payment methods and cash-management considerations.
Key Learning Areas
1. Understanding the Cash Cycle
Explore the key components of the cash cycle and understand how the movement of money through the organisation affects liquidity, working capital and financial performance.
2. Credit Management
Understand the importance of credit and examine how credit decisions can affect cash flow, customer relationships and profitability.
3. Accounts Receivable Management
Develop practical approaches to managing receivables, improving collections and reducing the risk of bad or uncollectible debt.
4. Cash Collection Techniques
Explore practical tools and techniques that can help organisations improve collection efforts and accelerate cash inflows.
5. Working Capital Management
Understand how effective working capital management can reduce unnecessary costs, improve liquidity and support stronger business performance.
6. Accounts Payable Management
Examine the role of Accounts Payable in managing supplier relationships, payment processes, working capital and cash flow.
7. Procurement, Inventory and Cash Flow
Understand the relationship between purchase orders, procurement, inventory control, purchase ledgers and cash payments.
8. Financial Transaction Management
Explore effective transactional management systems and their relationship with financial accounting and the general ledger.
9. Risk and Uncertainty
Understand how financial risk and uncertainty can influence transactional processing, supplier payments, receivables and cash-flow management.
10. Best-Practice Cash Management
Examine practical approaches used across different industries to improve Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and working capital management.
Practical Learning Approach
The programme uses practical examples and case-study-based learning to help participants understand how cash-cycle principles can be applied across different business environments.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine working capital challenges and identify practical improvements that can be applied within their own areas of responsibility.
Benefits of the Programme
Participants will be better equipped to:
- Improve working capital management.
- Strengthen cash-flow management.
- Improve accounts receivable processes.
- Reduce exposure to bad and uncollectible debt.
- Improve cash collection.
- Manage accounts payable more effectively.
- Understand the financial impact of payment decisions.
- Strengthen coordination between finance, procurement and supply-chain functions.
- Identify opportunities to reduce working capital costs.
- Incorporate risk considerations into transactional and cash-flow management.
- Apply practical best practices to improve financial efficiency.
Who Should Attend?
This programme is suitable for:
- Finance professionals
- Accounts Receivable personnel
- Accounts Payable personnel
- Credit controllers
- Financial accountants
- Working capital professionals
- Cash-management professionals
- Procurement and supply-chain professionals
- Finance and operations managers
- Business managers
- Professionals involved in transactional finance
- Professionals seeking to strengthen their understanding of working capital management
Course Outcome
By the end of the programme, participants will have a stronger understanding of the complete cash cycle and the relationship between Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, procurement, inventory, financial accounting and cash flow.
They will gain practical tools for improving collections, managing payments, controlling working capital costs, identifying financial risks and supporting stronger liquidity and profitability.
Manage Cash Better. Strengthen Working Capital. Improve Business Performance.
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