In-Person Seminars

AFP, in partnership with gtnews, offers world-renowned education and training, all designed to build skills in core treasury and finance competency areas. Each half day to three day course is fast moving, highly interactive with in-depth topic coverage facilitated by subject-matter-expert instructors. Take advantage of discounted pricing by enrolling in multiple seminars and save $300-$800 off tuition. Most seminars are eligible for CTP/CCM recertification credits or CPE credits.

Upcoming In-Person Instructor-Led Seminars

• Cash Management
• Treasury Management Primer
• Cash Flow Forecasting
• Advanced Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques
• Financial Risk
• Electronic Payments
• Bank Relationship Management
• International Cash Management
• CTP Prep
• gtnews Seminars

Cash Management

These two-day highly- interactive seminars led by AFP-Faculty are guaranteed to lay the foundation for a complete understanding of corporate cash management. Starting with the cash conversion cycle, the course explores how cash flows in and out of a company and how liquidity levels can be managed.

Using a 4-part case study through-out the two days, attendees learn how the concepts and practices are applied to real-life scenarios. Participants also receive the AFP Learning System? Cash Management textbook and access to an online case study and knowledge assessment tools.

Learning Objectives The AFP Learning System?: Cash Management Seminar is a two day, instructor-led course providing an overview of cash management practices. At the end of the seminar, participants receive a certificate of course completion. This course will help you to:

• Recognize key concepts, terminology, goals and tools used in the management of corporate cash.
• Examine the cash conversion and operating cycles of a company and methods used to forecast cash flows.
• Recognize fundamental financial ratio analyses used to measure liquidity.
• Identify objectives and methods used to collect receipts quickly and control disbursements.
• Identify basic borrowing and investment techniques used to ensure adequate liquidity.
• Explore fundamental techniques specific to cross-border cash management.
• Define interest rate and exchange rate risk, and review instruments used to manage financial risk.
• Identify methods used to compensate financial institutions and understand the account analysis statement.

Who Should Attend

• Anyone who has an interest in learning the fundamentals of cash management.
• Practitioners who have joined the treasury profession within the past two years.
• Financial professionals who have returned to the field of treasury management and require a refresher on cash management.
• Individuals who have the responsibility for cash management in their organization.
• Bankers and other financial service providers who make lead referrals to the product sales team or provide customer service.
• Operations and technical staff who support cash management systems and processes.
• Accountants and other Finance staff who interact with Treasury staff.

Key Benefits

• Qualified instructors to clarify concepts, reinforce key points, and keep you on track for success.
• Interactive discussion in a classroom setting provides a forum for clarification and dialogue with your colleagues and instructor.
• Networking opportunities with attendees and instructors who have a variety of industry experiences to share.
• Application of real-world experiences in group discussion and course examples to learn from companies and industries other than your own.
• Convenience and flexibility of choosing from multiple locations.
• Company/employee tuition reimbursement offered by many organizations through a tuition reimbursement program for continuing education courses.

An Exceptional Value!

All registrants will receive not only a free copy of AFP Learning System?: Cash Management, but also these value-added benefits:

• 200+ online questions and application exercises to test your grasp of key concepts and calculations presented in the text.
• 4-Part case study: Step-by-step scenarios that provide real-world perspectives.
• Glossary and index
• Progress report that details how well your learning is progressing through the online exercises.
• Certificate of Completion

Approved for up to 16 CPE Credits | more info

Treasury Management Primer

This seminar explores the world of treasury management and is designed specifically to highlight the role of the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer and Cash Manager from their point of view. Through engaging and interactive activities, case studies, and a popular Treasury Game, participants will truly ?walk a mile? in the shoes of a treasurer.

Learning Objectives

• Gain a substantive awareness of the key components of working capital management from the point of view of a client
• Gain a better appreciation of the daily roles, responsibilities, and challenges of individuals who work in the Finance function of a company
• Gain fluency in the operating cycle of a business and its relationship to the cash cycle
• Gain the ability to talk clearly with a client about the work they do, and better communicate potential solutions for their needs

Who Should Attend
This workshop is useful for anyone who, either directly or indirectly, is involved in supporting customers who use Treasury Services, anyone new to the treasury profession, or corporate staff that interact with treasury and need a better understanding of its role in the organization.

Prerequisites: none

Approved for 4.0-16.0 CPE credits based on half day, full day, or two day course | more info

• This seminar is also available online

Cash Flow Forecasting

A famous scientist once said "the only problem with prediction is that it is about the future". No one understands this better than the treasury professional charged with the critical responsibility of predicting their company's future cash positions, which drive corporate liquidity levels, fund the operating cycle and support capital investment decisions. Performing these forecasts and interpreting variances with any degree of confidence demands solid, competency-based skills, which is the focus of this in-depth, facilitator-led course. The format includes a combination of lecture and practical "hands-on" applications of a number of cash flow forecasting techniques practiced by treasury professionals in this mission-critical role.

Learning Objectives

• Identify cash drivers in your company
• Apply "how to" techniques for forecasting individual cash flow line items
• Learn statistical techniques for dealing with cash flow uncertainties; both on-going and one-time events
• Investigate techniques for both predicting the year-end cash balance and reconciling it to the short-term cash forecast
• Explore how to perform and interpret cash forecast variance analyses

Take-Aways

• A quick reference guide to selected cash flow forecasting techniques that were covered in the workshop
• Selected exercises with answers for additional practice and examples
• Simple Excel templates

Prerequisites:

• Prior experience in cash forecasting will be helpful, but not essential
• Some familiarity with financial statement formats, concepts and terminology is necessary
• Bring a calculator
• Gain Continuing Education Credits

Approved for up to 11 CTP/CCM Credits and up to 11 CPE Credits | more info

• March 16-17, 2010

  Bethesda, MD
  Washington, DC Metro Area
  
  March 16th- 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  March 17th- 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  
  AFP Main Office
  4520 East-West Highway
  Suite 750
  Bethesda, MD 20814

  Limited Space Available. Register Now!

  Member: $1045 | Non-member: $1440
  Registration Deadline: March 15, 2010

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• This seminar is also available online

Advanced Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques Seminar

If you're an experienced cash forecaster (or have taken our introductory our Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques Seminar) you've already mastered the fundamentals. But given the importance of accurately gauging your company's future liquidity position, isn't it time to take your forecasting skills to the next level?

This course introduces several state-of-the-art topics in cash flow forecasting including time series and regression methods of projecting cash flows and Monte Carlo techniques for estimating cash flow volatility and risk. The aim of this course is to develop practical, in-depth skills through "hands-on" applications of these techniques. Students will leave the course with solid understanding of how to bring their own cash forecasts into the 21st Century.

Learning Objectives

• Use quantitative methods to solve your must challenging forecasting problems
• Apply time series and decomposition techniques for forecasting individual cash flow line items
• Learn regression methods for correlating cash flow to other activities in your business
• Simulate cash flows using Monte Carlo techniques to measure and control cash flow risk
• Measure the accuracy of a cash forecasting model
• Utilize computer statistical modeling software plug-ins for a variety of the methods described above

Take-Aways

• A quick reference guide to selected cash flow forecasting techniques that were covered in the workshop
• Selected exercises with answers for additional practice and examples
• Trial versions of Excel add-ins for Monte Carlo simulation and statistical analysis

Prerequisites:

• Prior experience in cash forecasting or completion of our Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques seminar will be helpful
• Some background in basic statistics and regression analysis is helpful, but not required
• You will need to bring your laptop computer to run excel statistical modeling software, This software will be sent to you before the course begins for installation

Approved for up to 11 CTP/CCM Credits and up to 11 CPE Credits | more info

Financial Risk: Identification, Measurement and Management Techniques Seminar

Exposure to changes in interest rate, currency, equity and commodity markets is a fact of life but effectively measuring and managing those risks can mean the difference between profitability and loss. Selecting the product and risk hedging strategy that makes sense for a particular company and situation requires care and a solid understanding of the financial instrument tools and applications available in the market.

This 1 ? day, expert-facilitated program is uniquely designed to help treasury professionals build competency-based skills for identifying, measuring and managing financial risk exposure.

Learning Objectives

• Identify effective financial instruments used for managing risk from interest rate, currency, equity and commodity changes
• Recognize effective risk management processes and procedures for using financial instruments
• Measure the risk-return tradeoff of popular financial instruments and related applications with respect to economic, operational and structural attributes
• Deal with practical implementation issues such as data selection, valuation, hedge effectiveness testing

Prerequisites:

• A basic understanding of derivatives and financial risk management as demonstrated by earning the CTP/CCM designation
• 5+ years experience in corporate treasury, accounting or finance operations
• An interest in learning more about how to
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  • measure and manage financial risk
  • select the product tools and risk hedging strategy that makes sense for a particular company and situation

Take-Aways

• Case studies with answer sheets and highlighted concepts and computations
• Application-focused checklists
• AFP's Risk Management: A Risk Mapping Guide

Topics covered include

• Risk Identification: The Building Blocks
• Putting a Process in Place
• Introduction to Derivative Instruments
• Derivative Product Comparisons: Mini- Case Studies

Approved for up to 11 CTP/CCM Credits and up to 11 CPE Credits. | more info

Electronic Payments: Instruments and Processes

The most active discussion threads among members on the AFP list-serves are about payment issues and it?s no wonder given the rapid development and adoption of electronic alternatives for disbursing and collecting payments. To make the right choices to improve your company's processes and ultimately the balance sheet, you need to have a solid understanding what the options are, how they work and how they are used.

This fast-paced, instructor-led course is designed to provide a nuts and bolts understanding of ACH, wire, and card payment instruments and the process from origination to settlement. Topics will cover the most popular domestic and cross-border payments options for business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications from the corporate treasury management perspective. Whether you are truly a payments novice or just need to get up-to-speed on the current payments environment, this seminar offers high-level value.

Learn To:

• Use basic concepts and terminology related to electronic payment collections and disbursements
• Recognize the most popular types of non-paper-based payment instruments, their formats and mechanisms
• Identify how each payment type is originated and settled and the participants involved
• Consider speed, finality, remittance data, transaction costs, limitations and risk when selecting payment mechanisms

Take-Aways

• List of resources and references for payments and payments system issues

Prerequisites:
An awareness of fundamental corporate cash management principles and liquidity management objectives is recommended.

Topics covered

• Payments Systems Concepts
• Governing Laws and Regulations
• FedWire, CHIPS, TARGET
• ACH
• Check Conversion
• Card Payments
• E-Payments Risk

Approved for up to 11 CTP/CCM Credits and 11 CPE Credits. | more info

Bank Relationship Management Seminar

This highly interactive workshop will feature extensive group interaction, discussion and experience sharing in areas such as:

• Preserving access to liquidity
• What constitutes "fair and reasonable" service pricing
• Service costing and how to determine "appropriate" service costs
• Best practices in relationship management today
• An in-depth discussion and development of what would constitute a ?best-in-class? relationship model for you to implement in your organization
• Determining your own internal service costs to be able to accurately assess the total cost of processes within your shop today

Participants should be prepared to openly discuss their opinions, ideas, beliefs and business practices as they relate to relationship management from both the customer as well as the provider viewpoint.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how service pricing by service providers is accomplished
• Assess their company?s own internal cost structures to effectively measure costs
• Implement ?best practices? in relationship management "back home" on the job

Prerequisites: Participants must have experience (as either a service provider or customer) with actual involvement in relationship management, either as being responsible for these relationships, or having extensive involvement with service providers/customers in this environment is recommend.

Take Aways:

• Participants will be provided a summary of discussion points/issues raised, practices identified and questions asked during the workshop via e-mail following the conference.
• A checklist for a generic internal costing process for those processes that fall in the scope of bank relationship management.
• A resource guide to provide an opportunity for attendees to ?read more about it? after they return to their offices.

Approved for up to 4 CTP/CCM Credits and 4.5 CPE Credits. | more info

International Cash Management Strategy

Day 1: Managing Risk and International Payments Systems
This seminar will start with the essentials of international cash management, but move quickly into and exploration of why international cash management is more complex, the risks associated with these strategies, and cross-border payments issues.

Day 2: International Cash Management Tools
This workshop builds upon the foundation course and introduces the important topics of foreign exchange, when and where to hold foreign currency accounts and an introduction to the major vehicles for managing cross-border liquidity. Exercises are used throughout to reinforce the concepts and practice their application.

Day 3: Advanced Liquidity Management
In this final module we examine the different ways in which companies can structure their treasury organization; the many options with regard to banking structure and selecting appropriate banking partners. The final exercise allows participants to practice the skills learned by asking teams to work on a case study to design an efficient banking structure to optimize liquidity management. Attend all three days of our international suite of cash management seminars with Michele Allman-Ward and save!

Approved for up to 7 CTP/CCM credits each day, up to 23 CTP credits for all three days, and up to 7 CPE credits each day. | more info

3-Day Intensive Exam Review Workshop (18 hour curriculum)

AFP's highly rated 3-day exam prep workshop provides the "capstone" for your exam preparation work, and can help bolster exam-day confidence.

The 3-day, interactive seminar with AFP-developed materials, provides content and test-taking tips to attendees in a fast-paced, interactive environment. This intensive review of key concepts and calculations is based on Essentials of Treasury Management, 2nd Edition ? the body of knowledge of which the CTP exam is based.

The review course is intended for those who are well along in their exam preparation ? with the AFP Learning System Treasury self-directed or a 36 hour instructor-led course ? but want a final refresher before heading into the exam. Register Early: The AFP Learning System Treasury Self-Directed study materials are included with your registration and will be shipped within two weeks of enrollment. If you have already purchased the Second Edition of the Learning System Treasury, please indicate this when you register and your seminar fee will be less $295

Who Should Attend
The review course is intended for those who are well along in their exam preparation with the AFP Learning System Treasury self-directed or a 36 hour instructor-led course. The course should serve as a final refresher before taking the exam. Register Early: The AFP Learning System Treasury Self-Directed study materials are included with your registration and will be shipped within two weeks of enrollment.

Take-Aways

• Second Edition of the Learning System Treasury
• Learning System Online Access
• Test Taking Tips
• Practice Test and Answers

More information on the self-directed AFP Learning System Treasury.

12-14 Week Semester CTP Exam Review Classes (36 hour curriculum)

Collaborate with peers from your local area in an evening or weekend classroom setting. This course provides comprehensive instructor-led coverage of the entire body of knowledge on which the CTP exam is based. Offered through our partner colleges/universities or directly from AFP.
To register, contact the school directly.

Technology for Treasury

Brought to you by gtnews

October 16, 2009
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
London, UK

This brand new course has been designed to take the pain out of understanding how and, in particular, what technology is available for the Treasury Department. It focuses on what is available, how it works, and how to choose the right technology for your treasury. It is ideal for those new to treasury, especially for those people who are involved in the decision to choose technology.

AFP Members: ?450
Standard: ?499
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An Introductory to Treasury: A day in the life of a treasury department

Brought to you by gtnews
November 20, 2009
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
London, UK

This unique course has been designed by gtnews specifically for those who need to understand how a corporate treasury functions but don't want to spend two or more days out of the office. Based on the activities of a real treasury team, the course tracks them through their day, explains the significance of each operation they undertake and allows participants to get "inside the skin" of those at the sharp end of treasury. It's ideal for those new to treasury and, especially, for those who will work with treasury teams and need to understand their role.

AFP Members: ?450
Standard: ?499
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International Cash Management Strategy

Brought to you by gtnews
December 1-3, 2009
Brussels, Belgium

gtnews is pleased to offer to its readers a three-day training course, 'International Cash Management Strategy'. Held in central Brussels from 1-3 December 2009, this three-day course consists of highly interactive workshops and is designed to bring the participant from the basics of international cash management through to the advanced topics of treasury organisation and cross-border liquidity management. It is ideal for new entrants to the treasury function who need to get up to speed quickly, experienced treasury professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge, and external parties who want to update their understanding of their clients' evolving requirements.

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AFP Members: ?2250
Non-AFP Members: ?2500
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	CTP/CCM Recertification Credits CTP recertification credit is earned at the rate of one credit per 50 minutes of treasury/cash management or finance-related session time, including questions and answers. See individual course description for credit information.
	CPE Credit The Association for Financial Professionals is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org Course Level: Basic: Cash Management, International Cash Management, Treasury Management Primer, Cash Flow Forecasting, E-Payments, Financial Risk , Bank Relationship Management Intermediate: Advanced Liquidity Management, Advanced Cash Flow Forecasting Prerequisites: None Number of CPE Credits: See individual course description for credit information. Instruction Method: Group-Live