Virtual Instructor-Led Seminars

Taught by members of AFP's experienced faculty, each course is offered via the web over two days for 4 hours each day, or one day for 4 hours. These seminars include the same content covered in our half day to two day seminars (4.0- 15.0 contact hours). Conveniently scheduled during the middle of the day in the Eastern and Central time zones.

Most seminars are eligible for CTP/CCM recertification credits and/or CPE credits.

Each participant will receive an electronic packet of materials and a copy of the slides before the course begins.

Upcoming Virtual Instructor-Led Seminars

• Electronic Payments: Instruments and Processes - new!
• Bank Relationship Management - new!
• Cash Flow Forecasting Seminar
• CTP Prep

Electronic Payments: Instruments and Processes

• April 13, 2010
  1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. ET
  
  Mark J. Krawczyk
  Principal
  Czyk and Associates

  Limited Space Available. Register Now!

  Member: $300 | Non-member: $375
  Registration Deadline: April 12, 2010 + Add to Cart

This fast-paced, instructor-led virtual seminar 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.

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
• Course Slides and Handouts provided via email

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

This virtual seminar has been approved for 4.5 CTP/CCM credits and 4.5 CPE credits. For more information on requirements for obtaining CE credits through AFP seminars, please click here.

Bank Relationship Management

This interactive virtual seminar will feature extensive discussion and experience sharing in areas such as (but not limited to):

• What constitutes "fair and reasonable" service pricing
• Preserving access to liquidity
• 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.

Learn To:

• 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

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 seminar
• 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"
• Course Slides and Handouts provided via email

Prerequisites:

• Extensive 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 recommended.

This virtual seminar has been approved for 4.5 CTP/CCM credits and 4.5 CPE credits. For more information on requirements for obtaining CE credits through AFP seminars, please click here.

Cash Flow Forecasting Seminar

• May 12 and 19, 2010
  Wednesday, May 12, 2010: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. ET
  Wednesday, May 19, 2010: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. ET
  8 hours total
  
  George Schilling, CTP
  Principal
  Schilling & Associates
  
  Early Registration Member: $475
  Early Registration Non-Member: $550
  Early Registration Deadline: April 28, 2010

  Limited Space Available. Register Now!

  Member: $600 | Non-member: $675
  Registration Deadline: May 11, 2010 + Add to Cart

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 captial 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.

Objectives:

• Identify cash drivers in your company
• 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 examples

Pre-requisites

• 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

This virtual seminar has been approved for 9.0 CTP/CCM credits and 9.0 CPE credits. For more information on requirements for obtaining CE credits through AFP seminars, please click here.