• Discuss the motives for holding cash and marketable securities
• Understand the objectives of cash management
• Describe the factors that determine the required cash balances
• Outline analytical models for cash management as a normative framework to provide an insight into how cash management should be conducted
• Review and illustrate cash budget as a cash management tool
• Demonstrate, using the operating and cash conversion cycles, the three basic strategies for the efficient management of cash to minimise financing/cash balance needs
• Review popular techniques for speeding up collections and slowing disbursements
• Understand the basic characteristics of marketable securities and the key features of the popular types of Government and non-Government issues
• Outline cash management practices in India
