Strengthening Liquidity, Cash Flow, and Short-Term Financial Performance
Effective working capital management is essential for maintaining liquidity, controlling financing costs, and supporting day-to-day business operations. Poorly managed receivables, inventory, and payables can tie up cash, weaken profitability, and create unnecessary financial risk.
The Working Capital and Debtors Management course provides participants with practical techniques for improving cash conversion, credit control, collections, inventory management, and short-term financing decisions. Across five days, participants examine working capital drivers, debtor management, financing options, performance measurement, and strategic decision-making.
The programme combines financial analysis with practical tools, helping participants improve liquidity, reduce cash-cycle inefficiencies, strengthen credit policies, and align working capital decisions with wider corporate objectives.
You'll Learn How To
- Explain the key components and strategic importance of working capital.
- Analyse the relationship between liquidity, profitability, and risk.
- Evaluate the working capital cycle and cash conversion process.
- Calculate and interpret DSO, DIO, and DPO.
- Apply inventory management techniques such as EOQ and JIT.
- Assess debtor management and credit control systems.
- Develop effective credit policies, collection procedures, and payment terms.
- Identify and monitor working capital KPIs.
- Improve collections and manage overdue receivables.
- Evaluate short-term financing alternatives for working capital.
- Compare factoring, invoice discounting, trade credit, and supplier financing.
- Incorporate the opportunity cost of capital into working capital decisions.
- Use forecasting, analytics, and dashboards to improve management reporting.
- Integrate working capital management with broader financial planning.