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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-29
Cash Management and Banking Relationships
For: Treasurers, accountants, and administrative and financial managers of SMEs, associations and local authorities who manage liquidity and negotiate with banks.
Learning outcomes
- Prepare cash forecasts and manage the cash position on a day-to-day basis.
- Choose short-term financing or an investment suited to the cash position.
- Manage banking relationships: terms, negotiation, control of charges.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Cash forecasting: cash budget, rolling plan, value-date position; liquidity indicators. |
| Week 2 | Short-term financing: overdraft, seasonal crop credit, discounting, factoring, cash credit facilities; investments: term deposits, government securities, collective investment schemes. |
| Week 3 | Banking relationships: bank terms and conditions, negotiation, allocation of flows between banks, control of charges. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: rolling cash plan for a fictitious organisation and a bank negotiation memo. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): rolling cash plan and bank negotiation memo for a fictitious organisation; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). The data and bank terms are fictitious.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Cash Management and External Transactions
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-29C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Cash management and transactions with parties outside the Union: règlement n°06/2024/CM/UEMOA (WAEMU Regulation), to be studied from the text.
- Day-to-day management: reconciling forecasts with actuals, updating the rolling plan.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Experience in accounting or financial management assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Financial Engineering, within a period set by the certificate regulations.