Professional Development Month 2024: Optimising working capital

For many businesses, working capital management can be critical to survival. And in today’s economic environment with high interest rates – it can provide a useful source of interest income. The resources below provide some insight into the digital evolution of working capital, cash forecasting, data analytics to improve your cash management, and supply chain finance.

How technology can transform cash flow forecasts

In this article from The Treasurer looks at how technology solutions offer a cost-effective way of improving cash-flow forecasting, but leveraging expertise from treasury professionals is key to success.

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Nine ways to improve cash-flow

This guide by Lloyds Bank provides some useful insight into improving cash-flow.

Analysing and optimising your cash-flow

This article from Forbes magazine asked members of Forbes Finance Council to share their methods for analysing an organisation's operating cash flow, as well as why they prefer the approach.

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Working capital roundups

Deloitte provide an annual Working Capital Roundup, and in 2022 they analysed the working capital performance of more than 3,000 companies across four main industries to understand the trends and changes across AR, inventory, and AP.

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Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of value-added flows of materials, final goods, and related information among suppliers, company, re-sellers, and final consumers. The Wiki provides further information on supply chain management, supply chain finance and payments & payment systems.