Cash Flow Management course equips individuals to forecast, track and manage cash for financial stability and business success.

Challenges for Finance Managers:

  • Developing reliable and predictive cash flow forecasts to aid planning
  • Recognising the difference between profits and cash in business
  • Spotting and managing cash flow risks to avoid impacts on operations and growth
  • Effectively sharing information on cash flow with management, boards and stakeholders
  • Identifying and putting in place strategies to optimise cash conversion and working capital

About This Course

Riverstone’s Cash Flow Management course will equip finance and business leaders with the strategies and methods to manage cash flows throughout the business cycle. The course introduces the basics of cash flow analysis, preparation of direct and indirect cash flow forecasts, working capital management and cash conversion management. The course covers the links between cash flow and profitability, how to manage cash flow risks and how to communicate cash flow information to stakeholders effectively. This course has a strong practical focus, and applies the theory to real business situations.

  • Enhance cash flow forecasts through better understanding and awareness
  • Enhance the organisation’s working capital management and cash conversion cycle
  • Minimise the chances of cash flow shortfalls through improved planning and monitoring
  • Develop in-house skills to manage cash through the business cycle
  • Develop an understanding of the concepts of cash flow and how they impact on business performance
  • Create direct and indirect cash flow forecasts, including practical approaches and models
  • Manage elements of working capital (receivables, payables and inventory)
  • Recognise cash flow risks and how to manage them
  • Effectively report cash flow analysis and forecasts to finance and non-finance personnel

Module – 1

Introduction

  • Introduction
  • What is cash
  • What does Cash include?
  • What is Cash Management?
  • Cash Management objectives

 

Module – 2

Heart of any business

  • Importance of Cash Flows Statement –
  • How to analyze Cash Flow Statement
  • Difference between Accounting profit and Cash profit

 

Module – 3

Cash management process and its control

  • Advantages of cash management
  • Steps to Cash Management process
  • Conduct a baseline assessment to establish your current status
  • Track your performance
  • Create an Action Plan
  • Roll it out
  • Continue to improve

 

Module – 4

Cash flow cycle and planning

  • How does money move in Cash Flow Cycle
  • Steps in Managing Cash Flow
  • How to measure the liquidity of the company and its impact on cash management
  • Sources of liquidity: Primary and secondary sources
  • How to measure the liquidity using various ratios
  • Analysis of impact of liquidity on cash management
  • Pitfalls’ of analysis

 

Module – 5

Forecasting and analysis of cash budget

  • How to build the cash budget
  • Analysis of cash budget
  • Items to be included and excluded
  • Pitfalls and point to remember

 

Module – 6

Financing of cash and working capital requirement of the business

  • Why we need financing for cash and working capital
  • Understanding and types of financing
  • Various sources to raise cash and its cost
  • How to evaluate various options and choose the best source

 

Module – 7

Impact of cash shortages and surplus

  • Understanding cash shortage & cash surplus
  • Cash shortfalls and cash surpluses
  • Managing Cash shortages
  • Steps in managing cash flow during shortages
  • Evaluating funding options
  • Accelerating cash inflows
  • How do you manage surplus cash
  • Investment policy
  • Steps for investment plan
  • Investment Product of corporate cash management

 

Module – 8

Effect of credit management on cash and strategy to improve the cash management

  • Credit management
  • Receipt Cycle
  • Issue in the credit management
  • Example of credit management for global companies
  • Understanding the impact of credit on the business of the company
  • Various type of policies used in industry and its impact on cash
  • Various analysis to check the effectiveness of the credit policies
  • Key pitfalls

 

Module – 9

How to manage the receivables and payables to improve the cash flow s

  • Strategy of Credit management to improve cash flows
  • Advantages and disadvantages of these strategies
  • Receivable Financing
  • Types of receivable financing
  • Unsecured financing
  • Collection and payment practice
  • Categories of holding cash
  • Prompt Collection and efficient disbursement

 

Module – 10

Managing inventory

  • Understanding of various inventory management policies in the industry
  • How does inventory effects the cash management
  • Strategy to improve the inventory management
  • Various method applied for inventory management
  • Inventory financing

 

Module – 11

Warning Signals of adverse working capital and cash flow management and steps to improve

  • Warning signs in working capital management
  • Understanding its impact on cash flow
  • Questions to be answered for warning signs
  • Early warning signs
  • Monitoring cash flow for warning signs

 

Module – 12

How to implement effective International cash management

  • International Cash Management
  • Complications in International Cash Management
  • Strategy for international cash management

This course can be taken as a public course at various locations around Australia, an in-house course held at your site, or an e-learning course. The duration and delivery of the course can be tailored to your organisation’s requirements.

  • Friday, September 18, 2026.
  • Friday, December 11, 2026.