Central Treasury Management

Issued by The University of Queensland, Business School

Central Treasury Management is delivered as part of the Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) Education Program and tailored for the public sector. Earners of this badge will have learned about the debt issuance to fund public services, and the measures and techniques used to manage financial risks to ensure the best value for money for business units and clients. They will have gained informative insight into the treasury management and funding activities of a central financing authority.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Days
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Debt Management Planning
Financial Market
Foreign Exchange Risk
Funding
Interest Rates
Management
Public Service
Risk Aversion
Risk Management
Treasury Management

Earning Criteria

Earners will have engaged in a simulation exercise as a the manager of a central treasury authority that provides funding and financial support to public sector organisations and their business units. They would have worked in small teams to meet their clients’ unique funding requirements and risk tolerance to achieve the lowest possible cost of funds within the context of managing a large debt portfolio.
Earners would be able to develop a borrowing and liability management framework and interpret economic information and use it to develop and implement market strategies.
Earners would be able to understand role and functions of a central treasury in the public sector, function of a wholesale debt issuance program and the strategies that underpin it, financial instruments involved in managing a debt funding portfolio and how these instruments are used concepts of interest rate, commodity, credit and foreign exchange risk, and the importance of managing them effectively
Earners would understand cash flow implications of managing a debt funding portfolio; and the need for good financial governance and what that looks like.