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"Cash Conversion Cycle" for Cash Flow Management
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"Cash Conversion Cycle" for Cash Flow Management

Unlocking Cash Flow Efficiency: Mastering the Cash Conversion Cycle
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • How to calculate the "Cash Conversion Cycle" and its components.
  • Manage and optimize your business's cash flow through consistent tracking and understanding.
  • Make informed financial decisions regarding your accounts receivable and accounts payable
  • Appreciate the significance of inventory and WIP management on lead times, working capital and financial risk
  • The subtle differences between Operating Cycle, Net Operating Cycles, Cash Gap and Operational Liquidity

Course content

12 sections29 lectures1h 15m total length
  • Measuring cash flow operations performance2:17
  • Net Cash Flow vs Cash Conversion Cycle2:45
  • Focus on Operating Cash Flow2:10

    Explore how operating activities drive cash flows in the cash conversion cycle, from inventory purchases to sales, with brief context on investing and financing sections of the cash flow statement.

  • Review Request0:17

    Encourage learners to leave a review after the pop-up prompts, highlighting that positive reviews help the course get discovered and inspire other students to join.

  • Cash Gap vs Cash Cycle vs Working Capital Cycle1:05

    Explore the cash conversion cycle and its aliases, including cash gap and working capital cycle, and learn how days sales outstanding, days inventory outstanding, and days payable outstanding define it.

Requirements

  • It's beneficial to have a basic grasp of financial concepts, but this course is designed to accommodate learners with varying levels of financial knowledge.
  • A familiarity with financial statements (income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements) can be advantageous, but not essential
  • An enthusiasm and zest for taking control of your cash flow!

Description

  • Master the tools and principles of Cash Conversion Cycle for Cash Flow Management to have an "impact" on your business's operations - manufacturing, services, industrial operations and production.

  • Equip yourself to take a leading role in your workplace - defining and driving performance and business success.

  • Understand the fundamental dimensions of business operations and the core tools and essential approaches to improve them.

  • Become the authority in your team on improving the Cash Conversion Cycle for Cash Flow Management in your business


This MBA style course on "Cash Conversion Cycle" for Cash Flow Management" will prepare and empower you to make a real difference in your organization.


This course is for the new or aspiring manager, the ambitious engineer, high flying consultant, the hands-on planners and the practical business analysts.


Business operations come in all shapes and sizes with a host of unique challenges, but the fundamentals of running successful and efficient operations all contain the same fundamentals. Without a grasp of these, no manager can apply the core principles or techniques of business operations management, strategy, design and improvement.


Take control of your career and equip yourself to understand the real nature of business operations and how you can be the key to unlock their potential!


About Laurence Gartside

Laurence Gartside is a management consultant and business operations coach with a master’s degree in manufacturing, engineering and management from the University of Cambridge. He has consulted for and led numerous major improvement projects for companies around the world and is the founder of Rowtons Training.


Full Course Contents

1. Cash Flow Performance

  • Calculate your "Cash Conversion Cycle"

  • Measuring cash flow operations performance

  • Net Cash Flow vs Cash Conversion Cycle

  • Focus on Operating Cash Flow

  • Cash Gap vs Cash Cycle vs Working Capital Cycle


2. Calculating your Cash Conversion Cycle

  • How to Calculate the Cash Conversion Cycle

  • Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and Accounts Receivable Collection Period

  • Inventory management's impact on cash flow

  • Days Inventory Outstanding & inventory velocity

  • Calculating DIO with multiple products

  • Converting inventory turnover & inventory turns to DIO

  • Days Payable Outstanding & Accounts Payable Turnover Period

  • Example calculation of your Cash Conversion Cycle


3. Analyzing and Interpreting your Cash Flow

  • Analyzing your cashflow performance

  • Benchmark your cash flow


4. Related Concepts

  • Working Capital and Operational Liquidity

  • Operating Cycle and Net Operating Cycle

  • "Procure To Pay" (P2P) & "Order To Cash" (O2C)


5. What to Watch Out For

  • Common mistakes and pitfalls

  • "Credit sales" or "total sales" to calculate DSO

  • Calculating Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS)

  • Sampling frequency when calculating averages


6. Improving Your Cash Flow

  • Managing accounts receivables / payable

  • Inventory management to improve cashflow


7. Cash Flow for Operational Success

  • Improving the financial performance of your organization

  • Your operations and cashflow success


8. Conclusion

  • Your operations and cashflow success



Take control! Boost your career and your business!  Start learning today!

Who this course is for:

  • New and Ambitious Managers
  • Those who want to make a greater impact at work, improve things and get noticed
  • Operations, Supply chain, Finance and Accounting professionals
  • Also excellent for Operators, Business Analysts, Controllers, Inventory Managers and Logistics
  • Valuable for those working in purchasing, negotiation, procurement, customer service and sales
  • Those studying finance, accounting, or business, as well as individuals looking to pursue careers in financial analysis and management.
  • Individuals operating small businesses interested in optimizing their cash flow for sustainability and growth.
  • Individuals looking to enhance their understanding of cash flow dynamics and financial decision-making.