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Course Description

Cash management is crucial to business success, with 90% of small business failures linked to poor cash flow. This course helps non-financial managers optimize cash flow, uncover internal and external cash sources, and establish strong cash management practices to improve financial stability and decision-making in daily operations.

Course Outline

Unit 1
Cash Flow Strategies
  • Why cash is so important in business
  • What are the cash-critical stages in business
  • What internal sources of cash are possible
  • What potential external sources of cash there are
 
Unit 2
Reporting and Evaluating Cash Flow
  • Review of the Cash Flow Statement
  • Review of Projected Cash Flow Report
  • What the Cash Cycle communicates
  • What improvements can be made to shorten the cash cycle
  • Calculating cash cycle
 
Unit 3
Projecting Cash Needs
  • How much cash the business needs
  • When cash injections are needed
  • Which cash needs will internal sources be able to cover
  • Which cash needs must be met through external sources
  • Making comparisons with other businesses in the same industry

Unit 4

Funding Requests
  • What debt sources of cash are possible
  • What are the potential equity sources of cash
  • What requirements different funding sources have
  • Making a pitch to investors
  • Approaching potential lenders for financing
About Your Instructor
 
 
 
Jodie Trana has had a career in business consulting and financial management. She then started a consulting and training organization offering educational consulting services to organizations such as the Kauffman Foundation, the largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship. Jodie contributed the financial chapters for Kauffman’s textbooks and managed the curriculum design and facilitation process for their entrepreneurship educational programs. Her content specialties include accounting, financial analysis, business planning, cash flow analysis, and funding request analysis. Her background includes business and financial management in consulting, construction, non-profit, healthcare, and retail industries.
 

Learner Outcomes

At the end of this course, you will:
  • Understand your company’s cash activities and your own role in improving cash flow.
  • Be able to reveal cash needs based on a three year estimate of cash sources and uses.
  • Know how to consider cash management ideas to improve cash flow through improved business activities.
  • Be able to consider potential external cash sources and ways to approach them for funding.

Notes

Course Objectives
  • To clearly communicate the importance of cash in business.
  • To identify a business’s cash-critical stage.
  • To provide a review of possible internal and external sources of cash.
  • To show participants how to read a cash flow statement and cash flow report
  • To provide participants with the knowledge to use the cash cycle to identify potential improvements.
  • To provide information so participants can estimate the amount of cash needed and appropriate timing for three years.
  • To provide the knowledge needed to approach potential funding sources.

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Section Title
Accounting - Cash Is King
Type
Online: Self Paced
Dates
Jul 07, 2025 to Aug 01, 2025
Course Fee(s)
Tuition non-credit $195.00 Click here to get more information
Section Notes

For registration and further information regarding this course, please dlanpher@harpercollege.edu

 

Section Title
Accounting - Cash Is King
Type
Online: Self Paced
Dates
Oct 06, 2025 to Oct 31, 2025
Course Fee(s)
Tuition non-credit $195.00 Click here to get more information
Section Notes

For registration and further information regarding this course, please dlanpher@harpercollege.edu

 

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