Risk Management Applied to Treasury - Advanced

This module is part of the certified path "International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance - Advanced". It can also be taken independently.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Get a good understanding of how corporates and multinational companies manage financial risks, with a specific focus on FX risks and instruments used

• Understand ways of booking these financial instruments under IFRS, hedge accounting principles and ad hoc reporting

• Have a broad overview of classic hedging instruments used and through examples and exercises to catch on strategies and policies usually adopted by corporates

• Appreciate the revaluation techniques and issues, as well as impacts into P&L

• View types of IT solutions that exist and how they can help managing financial risks

• Review of all financial risk’s treasury managed by treasury

• Ways of protecting companies against these risks

• Financial instruments used

• Review of interest rate, commodity, equity, liquidity and counterparty risks.

• FX risk management: general objective

• Functional currency

• FX policies and strategies applied – best practices

• Review of main instruments used

• Accounting constraints under IFRS – IAS39 & IFRS9

• How accounting standard changes strategies applied and nature of instrument used

• FX risk reporting

• EMIR and EMIR refit – regulation on financial instruments

• Revaluation of FX products – Mark-to-market

• Analysis of annual reporting disclosures

• IT solutions to manage FX risks and financial instruments Options and solutions

• Currency Management Automation – the next level – solutions

• Dynamic hedging strategy

• Feeding of systems and data for revaluation

• Trading FX platform, a standard best practice

• Ways to share ancillary business with banks

• KPI’s and means to assess performances

• Examples and exercises on financial instruments

• Examples of IT solution to (better) manage FX and other financial risks.

Bankers, young treasurers, students in finance, accountants, …

Have already some basics knowledge and experience in Risk Management and/or have completed the training "Risk Management Applied to Treasury - Fundamentals".

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of participation delivered by the House of Training.