Mastering Cash Management by Dr Arif Khurshed, Riyadh, KSA

Join us for an engaging Workshop on Mastering Cash Management by , Associate Head of Research for the Accounting & Finance Division in Alliance Manchester Business School.

Agenda

7:00 -7:30 PM: Registration and Networking

7:30 -7:45 PM: Introduction of the University & Professor.

7:45- 8:30 PM: Masterclass by .

8:30 - 8:45 PM: Q&A session

About the workshop:

Everyone manages cash, from households to chief financial officers of multinational companies and pension fund managers. Anyone who controls people, materials, or services, or makes decisions affecting resources, impacts their organisation's cash position.

This interactive masterclass will introduce participants to the basics of cash management, focusing on cash budgets and company cash flow statements. Participants will engage in exercises such as a cash flow quiz and creating cash budgets. Using a real company's cash flow statement, we will learn to identify key cash flow metrics and trends. The masterclass will conclude with a discussion of the strategies for positive cash flow management, essential for business success and survival.

Masterclass outline

1. Introduction to cash management

2. Short interactive quiz on cash management

3. How to manage cash flows of a company: The role of cash budgeting

4. Company Cash flow statements: How to read and interpret them

5. Conclusions

About :

Arif completed his PhD from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading and joined the University of Manchester as a post-doctoral research associate. Subsequently, he took up a lectureship in Finance. He was promoted to Professor of Finance in 2013. He is currently the Associate Head of Research for the Accounting & Finance Division in Alliance Manchester Business School.

Arif’s research interests span a number of areas in corporate finance including IPOs, venture capital, payout policy and trade credit. He is the author of the book ‘The Mechanics and Performance of Initial Public Offerings. Arif has a passion for teaching and has been the recipient of a number of faculty outstanding teaching awards over the years.

Arif is on the editorial board of the British Accounting Review and the newly launched Journal of Sustainable Finance & Accounting. Previously he has served as an academic member of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) and as an external consultant to the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA). He has also been called upon as an expert witness in matters of corporate litigation.

The University of Manchester is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and is one of the UK’s largest single-site universities with more than 40,000 students on campus – including more than 10,000 international students.

The University is consistently ranked among the world’s elite institutions for graduate employability and world-class research across a diverse range of fields including cancer, advanced materials, global inequalities, energy and industrial biotechnology.

According to the QS World University Rankings 2024, The University of Manchester is ranked 32nd in the world, 8th in Europe and 6th in the UK.

The University of Manchester’s Middle East Centre at Dubai Knowledge Park opened in 2006 and is the largest and fastest growing in the University’s international network comprising four hubs in key business cities around the world.

The Centre has supported over 3,400 Part-time MBA and specialist Master’s students in the region and graduated more than 2,300 students. The Centre also works in regional collaborations with a range of industry groups, professional bodies and companies, and supports a regional alumni association with more than 5,000 members in countries across the region.

Triple Accredited MBA programmes:

• Manchester Global Part-time MBA
• Manchester Global Executive MBA

Other Programmes:

• Part-time MSc Financial Management
• Part-time MA Educational Leadership in Practice
• Executive Education

Our MBA is triple accredited by the AACSB, an accreditation body from the US, the EFMD from Europe and the Association of MBAs, making us a member of the elite group of less than 1% of business schools in the world with the triple accreditation.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

academy from stc, Street No 24, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia