Treasury: Managing Financial Risk
The Association of Corporate Treasurers
  • Start Date: 03 Apr, 2023
  • 4 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Gain crucial risk management skills to help lower financial risks, protect your organisation, and ensure its future success.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Unpack and manage financial risk with the Association of Corporate Treasurers.


Risk management is one of the most important areas of responsibility for treasury professionals. It can help you mitigate money-related risks to better protect your organisation’s finances and ensure its operations can continue.


On this four-week course, you’ll master the principles of risk management including identifying, assessing, and managing treasury risks.


The content is written by experienced treasury experts, who work for the Association of Corporate Treasurers, the only global professional body supporting the treasury community.


By the end, you’ll have the skills to deal with challenges you might face in risk management as a treasury professional.


Understand how to use a risk management framework


You’ll learn key techniques to identify and calculate risk using a risk management framework.


Understanding how to classify risks by type, you’ll be able to conduct an in-depth risk assessment and evaluation to reduce your organisation’s exposure to potential risks.


Learn how to conduct a risk response


Once you have identified a risk, you need to understand the appropriate response to help prevent damage.


You’ll learn the process of risk response and techniques such as hedging to control and mitigate the risks you identify.


Gain an understanding of risk reporting


Finally, you’ll examine the importance of risk reporting, both within treasury and the organisation as a whole. This will help you take a proactive risk management approach to further benefit your organisation.


Guided by the experts at the Association of Corporate Treasurers, you’ll finish the course with a solid understanding of financial risk management to help better protect your organisation from financial loss.


This course is designed for anyone interested in managing financial risk, whether in treasury or other finance roles, or simply for their own self-development.


You may already be a treasury professional or you could be considering a career in this field. No previous financial training or knowledge is necessary.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

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