Select Page

Focus includes these topics:

API
Automation and Efficiency of A/P & A/R
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Business Credit Card Trends and Expense Reporting
Career Development for Finance Professionals
Cash management/segmentation
Credit Agreements and Transition from LIBOR
Crisis and Risk Management
Currency and foreign exchange
Cyber crime
Cybersecurity
Data / Analytics
Digital Assets/Tokenization
Digitization of financial services
Economic update
E-commerce
Faster Payments
Finance / IT
Finance / Treasury
financial risk management
Fintech / AI / RPA
FP&A, Budgeting, Forecasting
fraud and risk management
Fraud, Hacking & Security Hot Topics
Fraud/Crime (AML)
Industry Specific Topics
Innovation, Future of Treasury
Market outlooks
Mergers and Acquisitions
New Normal of Treasury
Payment processing
Payment services
Real time payments & collections
Tax and Regulatory Reform
Treasury management
Working Capital Optimization

Broad Content Area

I. Maintain corporate liquidity required to meet current and future obligations in a timely and cost effective manner

II. Manage capital structure, manage costs of long-term capital, and quantitatively evaluate long-term capital resource investments

III. Monitor and control corporate exposure to financial, regulatory and operational risk 

IV. Assess impact of technologies within the treasury function

MidSouth AFP Topics of focus

Topic 1: The Role of Treasury Management

Topic 2: Regulatory and Legal Environment

Topic 3: Banks and Financial Institutions

Topic 4: Payment Systems

Topic 5: Money Markets

Topic 6: Capital Markets

Topic 7: Relationship Management and Financial Service Provider Selection

Topic 8: Financial Accounting and Reporting

Topic 9: Financial Planning and Analysis

Topic 10: Introduction to Working Capital Management

Topic 11: Working Capital Metrics

Topic 12:  Disbursements, Collections, and Concentration

Topic 13: Short-Term Investing and Borrowing

Topic 14: Cash Flow Forecasting

Topic 15: Technology in Treasury

Topic 16: Enterprise Risk Management

Topic 17: Financial Risk Management

Topic 18: Treasury Policies and Procedures

Topic 19: Long-Term Investments

Topic 20: The Capital Structure Decision and Management

  Topic 1: The Role of Treasury Management

  •         The Role and Organization of Treasury Management
  •         Finance and Treasury Organization
  •         Corporate Governance

 Topic 2: Regulatory and Legal Environment

  •         General Regulatory Environment
  •         Primary Regulators and Standard Setters of International Financial Markets
  •         National/Regional Approaches to Legislation and Regulation
  •         Tax for Treasury
  •         Bankruptcy/Insolvency Laws
  •         Trends in Regulation

 Topic 3: Banks and Financial Institutions

  •         Financial Institutions: Functions and Services

 Topic 4: Payment Systems

  •         Payment Overview
  •         Payment Instruments
  •         Payment Systems

 Topic 5: Money Markets

  •         Money Market Participants
  •         Money Market Instruments

 Topic 6: Capital Markets

  •         Structure of the Capital Markets
  •         Debt Market
  •         Equity Market

 Topic 7: Relationship Management and Financial Service Provider Selection

  •         Bank Relationship Management
  •         FSP Selection
  •         Assessing the Risk of FSPs

 Topic 8: Financial Accounting and Reporting

  •         Uses of Financial Statements
  •         Accounting Concepts and Standards
  •         Financial Statement Reporting
  •         Accounting for Derivatives, Hedges, and Foreign Exchange (FX) Translation
  •         Accounting for Governmental and Not-For-Profit (G/NFP) Organizations

 Topic 9: Financial Planning and Analysis

  •         Time Value of Money
  •         Capital Budgeting
  •         Budgeting
  •         Cost Behavior
  •         Financial Statement Analysis

  Topic 10: Introduction to Working Capital Management

  •         The Link Between Cash and Working Capital
  •         Components of the Capital Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)
  •         How Changes in Current Balance Sheet Accounts Impact External Financing
  •         Strategies for Investing In and Financing Working Capital
  •         Management of Trade Credit and Accounts Receivable (A/R)
  •         Management of Inventory
  •         Management of Accounts Payable (A/P)
  •         International Working Capital Management Tools

 Topic 11: Working Capital Metrics

  •         Fundamental Working Capital Metrics
  •         The Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)
  •         Calculations for Trade Credit Decisions
  •         Accounts Receivable (A/R) Monitoring

 Topic 12:  Disbursements, Collections, and Concentration

  •         Disbursements
  •         Collections
  •         Concentration of Funds

 Topic 13: Short-Term Investing and Borrowing

  •         Managing Short-Term Investments
  •         Pricing and Yields on Short-Term Investments
  •         Managing Short-Term Borrowing
  •         Debt Financing
  •         Market Information for Investors and Borrowers

 Topic 14: Cash Flow Forecasting

  •         Purpose of Cash Flow Forecasting
  •         Types of Forecasts
  •         Forecasting Process
  •         Forecasting Methods
  •         Best Practices for Cash Flow Forecasting

 Topic 15: Technology in Treasury

  •         Information Technology for Treasury
  •         Treasury Management Systems (TMSs)
  •         Project Management
  •         Communications and Technology Developments

 Topic 16: Enterprise Risk Management

  •         Risk Management
  •         Categories of Risk
  •         Techniques Used to Measure Risk
  •         Managing Insurable Risks
  •         Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

  Topic 17: Financial Risk Management

  •         Types of Financial Risk
  •         Managing Financial Risk
  •         Derivative Instruments as Financial Risk Management Tools
  •         Managing Interest Rate Exposure
  •         Managing Foreign Exchange (FX) Exposure
  •         Managing Commodity Price Exposure
  •         Accounting and Tax Implications of Financial Risk Management
  •         Hedging Policy Statement

 Topic 18: Treasury Policies and Procedures

  •         Overview of Treasury Policies and Procedures
  •         Creating a Treasury Policy Document
  •         Overview of Key Treasury Policies / Policy Development / Short Term Investment Policy
  •         Overview of Key Treasury Policies

 Topic 19: Long-Term Investments

  •         Valuation of Capital Market Securities
  •         Managing Capital Market Investments

 Topic 20: The Capital Structure Decision and Management

  •         Capital Structure
  •         Raising and Managing Long-Term Capital
  •         The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
  •         Lease Financing
  •         Equity Financing and Management
  •         Miscellaneous Corporate Finance Topics