Central Treasury Management

Topics covered

• Financial risk management frameworks and liability management
• Role of the corporate treasury
• Risk, including interest rate, exchange rate, commodity price and credit
• Yield curves
• Bond pricing
• Measures of risk, including duration
• Economic fundamentals
• Financial market instruments, including physicals, bonds, futures, interest rate swaps, cross currency swaps and commercial paper
• Bid/offer rates
• Managing foreign exchange and commodity exposures
• Wholesale debt issuance

Who should attend?

The workshop is designed to assist board members, chief executive officers, finance and treasury managers and staff responsible for financial risk management. No knowledge of the topics is assumed; participants with prior experience may find the workshop useful to refresh and extend their knowledge, as well as participate in the challenge of the simulation.

The QTC Education Program is only available to Queensland Public Sector Employees (this includes employees of the Queensland Government, Queensland government departments, local governments, statutory corporations, and other entities to the extent they have an association or are related to the State of Queensland) and QTC employees. By registering for a workshop or webinar, you acknowledge that you are a Queensland Public Sector Employee. QTC/UQ reserves the right to unenroll any person that is not a Queensland Public Sector Employee or QTC employee from any workshop or webinar in the Education Program. If you are unenrolled from a workshop or webinar you will be entitled to receive a full refund of any workshop fees paid.

Outcomes

At the completion of the workshop participants will be able to understand the:

• role and functions of a central treasury in the public sector
• function of a wholesale debt issuance program and the strategies that underpin it
• financial instruments involved in managing a debt funding portfolio and how these instruments are used
• concepts of interest rate, commodity, credit and foreign exchange risk, and the importance of managing them effectively
• cash flow implications of managing a debt funding portfolio, and the
• need for good financial governance and what that looks like.

In addition, participants will be able to:

• develop a borrowing and liability management framework, and
• interpret economic information and use it to develop and implement market strategies.

Practical exercises

Become the manager of a central treasury authority that provides funding and financial support to public sector organisations and their business units in this fascinating simulation. Work in small teams to meet your clients’ unique funding requirements and risk tolerance to achieve the lowest possible cost of funds within the context of managing a large debt portfolio.

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Continuing professional development

Completion of QTC Education Program workshops may be recognised for the purpose of continuing professional development hours for members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA), Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA), Governance Institute of Australia, and other professional bodies and associations.