Treasury: Managing Financial Risk

Unpack and manage financial risk with the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Risk management is one of the most important areas of responsibility for treasury professionals. It can help you mitigate money-related risks to better protect your organisation’s finances and ensure its operations can continue.

On this four-week course, you’ll master the principles of risk management including identifying, assessing, and managing treasury risks.

The content is written by experienced treasury experts, who work for the Association of Corporate Treasurers, the only global professional body supporting the treasury community.

By the end, you’ll have the skills to deal with challenges you might face in risk management as a treasury professional.

Understand how to use a risk management framework

You’ll learn key techniques to identify and calculate risk using a risk management framework.

Understanding how to classify risks by type, you’ll be able to conduct an in-depth risk assessment and evaluation to reduce your organisation’s exposure to potential risks.

Learn how to conduct a risk response

Once you have identified a risk, you need to understand the appropriate response to help prevent damage.

You’ll learn the process of risk response and techniques such as hedging to control and mitigate the risks you identify.

Gain an understanding of risk reporting

Finally, you’ll examine the importance of risk reporting, both within treasury and the organisation as a whole. This will help you take a proactive risk management approach to further benefit your organisation.

Guided by the experts at the Association of Corporate Treasurers, you’ll finish the course with a solid understanding of financial risk management to help better protect your organisation from financial loss.

This course is designed for anyone interested in managing financial risk, whether in treasury or other finance roles, or simply for their own self-development.

You may already be a treasury professional or you could be considering a career in this field. No previous financial training or knowledge is necessary.

• Introduction to financial risk
• Introduction to Week 1
• Risk and uncertainty
• Risk appetite
• End of Week 1 summary and review
• Identifying, assessing and calculating risk
• Introduction to Week 2
• Risk management framework
• Risk assessment and risk maps
• Risk evaluation and black swans
• Fundamentals of managing and calculating risk
• Introduction to Week 3
• Hedging
• Other hedging techniques
• End of Week 3 review
• Risk reporting
• Introduction to Week 4
• Key performance indicators (KPIs)
• International accounting standards
• End of Week 4 review and final assessment