Implementing Modern Cash Management

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Event: Implementing Modern Cash Management workshop.
Session No.: SA 23.25.
Location: New Delhi, India.
Date: August 28, 2023 - September 1, 2023 (1 week).
Delivery Method: In-person Training.
Primary Language: English.
Status: Deadline passed.
Organizers: South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) and the IMF Capacity Development Office in Thailand (CDOT).

Target Audience:
- Mid to senior level officials from SARTTAC and CDOT member countries in Finance Ministries/Departments and Central Banks with relevant experience in budgeting, treasury, cash and/or debt management.
Qualifications:
- Priority will be given to officials engaged with budgeting, treasury, cash or debt management functions at the central or state government level.

Purpose:
- Provide participants with techniques and tools to update government cash management processes.
Rationale:
- Cash managers are increasingly being asked to provide current information on cash flows while facing challenges in gathering financial information and evaluating the possible impacts on cash balance.
Approach:
- Multi-pronged cash management approach to improve existing practices and presentation of information for effective decision making.
Learning methods:
- Hands-on sessions using the IMF cash flow forecasting tool.
- Preparation of a presentation for decision makers.
- Case studies and country presentations used as group exercises for practical application.

Overall objective:
- Enable cash managers to modernize cash management and identify ways to improve the forecasting data on government's cash position to guide short-term financing decisions, including support the decision of an appropriate level for the cash buffer.
Specific process improvements (participants will be prepared to improve processes for):
- a. Integrating cash management with Treasury functions;
- b. Enhancing the expenditure control framework with cash management;
- c. Improving the forecast of the government's cash flows and its cash balance position;
- d. Optimizing institutional arrangements for updating cash management; and
- e. Including cash management in a crisis.

IMF offers online training to government officials and the public.
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