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Assessing Cash Flow and Bank Lending Requirements
This checklist explains what to look out for when assessing cash flow and what the banks require from a business when lending money and assessing cash flow. -
Creating a Standardized Process
This checklist outlines why creating standardized processes can aid a company’s performance. -
Dealing with Financial Intermediaries
This checklist describes why financial intermediaries exist and why it can be useful to deal with one rather than directly with a financial institution. It provides advice on the best way to deal with a financial intermediary. -
Developing a Contingency Funding Plan
This checklist describes why it is important to set up a contingency fund, how to define its uses, and some traps to avoid. -
Identifying Weak Points in Your Liquidity
This checklist describes liquidity, and why it is important for companies. The credit crunch of 2007–08 brought liquidity issues to the fore, especially in the banking sector. -
Invoicing and Credit Control for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
This checklist outlines invoicing and credit control for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). -
Managing the Time Value of Money
This checklist examines the concept of the time value of money, where an investor would rather receive money today than an equal amount in the future. -
Managing Working Capital
This checklist explains what working capital is and how it is used. -
Measuring Liquidity
This checklist outlines the ways liquidity is measured. -
Methods for Dealing with Inflation Risk
This checklist defines inflation risk and looks at various tools for managing it. -
Preparing a Budget
This checklist outlines why budgeting plays a key role in business and why it is equally important to all businesses, no matter what their size. -
Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast
This checklist explains how to prepare a cash flow forecast. -
Understanding Activity-Based Costing
This checklist provides an overview of activity-based costing, outlines some of its main applications, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of using this analysis. -
Understanding and Using the Cash Conversion Cycle
This checklist describes the cash conversion cycle and how it is normally used by businesses. -
Understanding Free Cash Flow
This checklist defines what free cash flow is and its role in a company’s finances. -
Understanding the Cost of Capital and the Hurdle Rate
This checklist explains what the cost of capital is, how its different elements are calculated, and the role of the hurdle rate. -
Understanding the Relationship between the Discount Rate and Risk
This checklist describes the discount rate and how potential risks affect its calculation.
Topic Highlights
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How to Assess a Company's Global Treasury Needs and Objectives Successfully
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Best-Practice Working Capital Management: Techniques for Optimizing Inventories, Receivables, and Payables
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Cash Flow Best Practice for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Navigating a Liquidity Crisis Effectively
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Working Capital Cycle
Checklists
The Checklists section provides a comprehensive handbook of practical answers to the daily challenges of modern finance. Each checklist is a step-by-step guide to achieving the best results in areas including hedging interest rate risk, governance practices, project appraisal, estimating enterprise value, and managing credit ratings. Each checklist reflects current thinking and best practice, and includes a list of dos and don'ts as well as critical reflection on the topic at hand.
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