Learn How to Balance Risk and Reward Across Key Working Capital Accounts

Mastering Working Capital Management

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Learn how to balance risk and reward across key working capital accounts, including cash, accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and short-term debt. Gain insights into forecasting, monitoring, and assessing working capital balances to make informed financial decisions.

Explore the critical cash conversion cycle—the engine driving your business—and learn how optimizing Days Inventory Outstanding, Days Sales Outstanding, and Days Payable Outstanding accelerates cash flow and fuel growth.


Packed with practical examples, formulas, and actionable strategies, this course is ideal for CFOs, financial managers, business advisors, and anyone looking to enhance their financial management skills. Whether you're managing a startup or an established company, this course will equip you with the tools that can improve cash flow, reduce costs, and maximize profitability.

What You'll Learn ...

This course equips you with the tools to strategically manage every facet of working capital:

  • Cash: Minimize idle funds while ensuring readiness for operations and opportunities.
  • Accounts Receivable: Accelerate collections, optimize credit policies, and mitigate losses with effective strategies and detailed aging analysis.
  • Inventory: Balance stock levels to avoid costly excesses and devastating stockouts using Economic Order Quantity and Reorder Point models.
  • Accounts Payable: Master timely payments and leverage discounts to preserve cash.
  • Short-Term Investments: Learn to wisely deploy excess cash for higher yields while meticulously managing interest rate and liquidity risks.
  • Short-Term Debt: Explore the use of business lines of credit and other short-term funding options to maintain liquidity and reduce costs.

Course Outline

Section 1: Working Capital Management

  • What is Working Capital?
  • Working Capital Management
  • The Cash Conversion Cycle
  • Projecting Working Capital Balances
  • Assessing and Monitoring Working Capital

Section 2: Working Capital Accounts

  • Cash
  • Short-Term Investments
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Inventory
  • Accounts Payable
  • Short-Term Debt
  • The Financing Budget
  • Permanent Working Capital
  • Key Takeaways

Are you a CPA? Get CPE Credit for this course.

Let me be your guide

I’m Rob Stephens, founder of CFO Perspective. CFO Perspective provides continuing education courses for CPAs as well as financial management courses for business advisors and staff. During my career, I’ve been the CFO, SVP of Finance, or Director of Operations of companies from just a few employees to $3 billion in assets and hundreds of employees. 

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There is no risk to you. I think you'll be impressed with what you receive, but if you're not, you can quit within the first month. Get a full refund in your first 30 days if it's not everything you wanted.

Would you like to improve cash flow, reduce costs, and increase profitability?

Get practical examples, formulas, and actionable strategies for better working capital management.

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The working capital management course is one of the courses you get with a FAST membership.

FAST (Finance and Strategy Toolkit) is a membership program that gives you resources for better strategic financial management. You get all the CFO Perspective courses. Get direct access to me as well as tools for improved decisions that can lead to superior business performance. 

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