The Certified Treasury Professional (CTP®) designation serves as a benchmark of competency in the finance profession and is recognized as the LEADING CREDENTIAL IN CORPORATE TREASURY WORLDWIDE. The CTP sets the global standard and is a symbol of excellence in the corporate treasury profession. Sponsored by the Association for Financial Professionals® (AFP), the CTP credential signifies that you have demonstrated the knowledge and skills required to effectively execute critical functions related to corporate liquidity, capital, and risk management.
The journey designed to be a blended learning journey that includes instructional videos and face to the instructor led training (ILT), also practice questions and quizzes after each chapter/s of the CTP certification.
Maintain corporate liquidity required to meet current and future obligations in a timely and cost effective manner.
Manage optimal cash positioning through forecasting and short-term investing and borrowing activities.
Optimize capital structure, manage costs of long-term capital and quantitatively evaluate capital resource investments.
Recognize corporate governance issues that arise from the separation of corporate ownership and control.
Manage cross-border funds movement and utilize international trade financing methods.
This chapter begins with an overview of the operations and participants in the capital markets. The remaining sections cover the basic characteristics of debt and equity securities.
This chapter discusses the general nature of financial
service providers relationships, the pricing of financial products and
services. and a typical selection process used to choose among providers.
This chapter describes the accounting principles that govern the creation of financial statements.
This chapter reviews the core tools used for financial planning and decision making.
This chapter discusses Working capital management that involves optimizing current assets and liabilities to ensure that the firm has sufficient liquidity.
This chapter discusses several key metrics that provide treasury professionals with the tools needed to assess the effectiveness of working capital management practices.
This chapter opens with a discussion of products and services commonly used by treasury professionals for the disbursement of funds. Next, the chapter describes key aspects related to collections, including lockboxes and international collection issues. The chapter closes with a discussion of cash concentration, including the concepts of notional and physical pooling.
This chapter discusses key issues related to
short-term investing. Then the topics that are pertinent to short-term
borrowing, which may be required when the firm has a cash deficit. Finally closes
with a discussion of the information available to treasury professionals to
support good decision making, including credit ratings and the agencies that
provide them.
This chapter describes the benefits of cash flow forecasting and the types of forecasts that are commonly performed by the treasury function. Next, the chapter provides an overview of the forecasting process and introduces some of the principal cash flow forecasting methods.
This chapter introduces some of the basics of information management and technology as they apply to treasury, including a discussion of treasury applications, technology platforms, security, and information technology policies.
This chapter begins with a review of general risk management principles, including an outline of the overall risk management process. The section is followed by a discussion of the various types of enterprise and operational risks, along with techniques for measuring risk. The chapter closes with a discussion of insurance as part of the risk management process, and a brief discussion of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
This chapter discusses an overview of financial risk management.
This chapter provides an overview of treasury policies and procedures and discusses the key elements needed in developing an effective policy statement.
This chapter describes key elements associated with the valuation of bonds and equity securities.
This chapter covered various topics related to corporate financial management.
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AFP does not limit the number of times an exam candidate can retake the exam.
Certification is valid for three years.
Approximately 4-5 weeks after passing the exam, newly certified CTPs will receive an email from our certificate partner, The Award Group. You will be able to verify your mailing address and confirm that the information on your certificate is correct. Certificates are mailed approximately 6-8 weeks after you have confirmed the information. You will receive an email when the certificate is mailed.
The exam is based on a scaled score. In this case, each question is worth one point. Your raw score is converted through a statistical formula, to a scaled score which allows for all examinees to be judged on a level playing field when taking different forms of the exam. Scaled scoring is commonly used by most certification organizations that offer multiple forms of an exam.
Therefore, we cannot indicate an exact number or percentage of questions that need to be answered correctly to pass the exam. As there is no penalty for incorrect answers, we recommend trying to answer each question to the best of your ability.
