1. Introduction

• Understanding the fundamentals of treasury management and its role in financial decision-making.

2. Treasury Management

• Roles/Functions of Treasury Management: Exploring how treasury management oversees cash flow, funding, and risk management.
• Scope of Treasury Management: Understanding the key areas covered, including liquidity, investments, and financial planning.
• Objective of Treasury Management: Defining the primary goals such as risk mitigation, cost reduction, and maximizing returns.

3. Treasury Risk Management

• Identifying and mitigating financial risks related to liquidity, interest rates, foreign exchange, and credit.

4. Treasury Policies and Procedures

• Establishing guidelines for cash management, investment decisions, and financial risk control.

5. Investment Market and its Operations

• Investment Environment: Understanding market conditions, economic indicators, and regulatory frameworks.
• Investment Process: Examining steps from asset selection to performance evaluation.
• Classification of Investment Activities: Categorizing investments into financial and real assets.
• Risk and Return: Analyzing the trade-off between potential returns and associated risks.
• Financial Market, Participants, and Instruments: Exploring stock exchanges, institutional investors, and financial instruments like bonds and equities.

6. Security Market and Emerging Trends

• Role of SEBI: Understanding the regulatory framework set by the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
• Types of Share Market: Differentiating between primary and secondary markets.
• Primary Market: Studying how companies raise capital through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
• Secondary Market: Learning about the trading of securities post-issuance.
• Types of Shares: Exploring equity shares, preference shares, and other classifications.

7. Portfolio Management

• Portfolio: Understanding portfolio construction, asset allocation, and management strategies.
• Diversification: Reducing risk by investing in different asset classes.
• Bonds and Debentures: Exploring fixed-income securities and their role in investment portfolios.

8. Derivatives

• Characteristics of Derivatives: Understanding their role as financial contracts that derive value from underlying assets.
• Types of Derivatives: Studying futures, options, swaps, and forwards.

9. Hedging

• Principles of Hedging: Using financial instruments to protect against price fluctuations and mitigate risks.

10. Depository

• Services Offered by a Depository: Understanding services like safekeeping, transfer, and settlement of securities.
• Constituents of Depository System: Identifying key participants such as depository, depository participants, issuers, and investors.
• Dematerialization and Rematerialization: Learning the process of converting physical securities into electronic form and vice versa.

11. Mutual Funds

• Benefits of Mutual Funds: Exploring advantages like diversification, professional management, and liquidity.
• Setting-up a Mutual Fund: Understanding the regulatory requirements and structure of mutual funds.
• Procedure to Invest in Mutual Fund Schemes: Steps involved in selecting and investing in mutual funds.
• Types of Mutual Fund Schemes: Examining open-ended, close-ended, and hybrid funds.
• Performance of Mutual Funds: Evaluating mutual fund returns and risk-adjusted performance.

12. Stock Exchange/Screen-Based Trading

• Demutualization of Stock Exchanges: Understanding the transformation of exchanges from member-owned to public companies.
• Types of Stock Exchanges: Differentiating between traditional and electronic stock exchanges.

13. Foreign Capital Issuance

• American Depository Receipt (ADR): Understanding how foreign companies raise capital in U.S. markets.
• American Depository Shares (ADS): Learning about shares issued in the U.S. representing foreign stock.
• Global Depository Receipts (GDR): Exploring international capital raising through GDRs.

14. Investors’ Protection, Grievance, and Education

• Investor Protection Fund/Consumer Protection Fund (IPF/CPF): Understanding funds created to safeguard investors' interests.
• Investors’ Grievances: Learning about common issues and complaint redressal mechanisms.
• Investor’s Education: Enhancing financial literacy and awareness of investment risks.

15. Time Value of Money

• Compounding Techniques: Understanding how money grows over time with compound interest principles.

16. Ratio Analysis

• Procedure of Analysis of Ratios: Steps involved in financial ratio interpretation for performance evaluation.
• Limitation of Financial Accounting Ratios: Understanding the constraints and misleading aspects of ratio analysis.
• Classification and Calculation of Ratios: Exploring liquidity, profitability, efficiency, and leverage ratios.