Summary
A hands-on guide for treasury teams looking to improve how they manage, track, and forecast debt.
Get practical tips to organise loan data, anticipate risks, and embed repayment planning into your forecasting process—so you can stay ahead of covenants, funding needs, and refinancing windows.
Overview
Debt management today isn’t just about reporting balances and due dates. It’s about staying ahead—of payments, covenants, cash gaps, and rate shifts. Treasurers must integrate debt into every corner of their forecasting process to avoid surprises and uncover strategic options.
This playbook outlines 5 practical techniques that bring debt into sharper focus—so you can improve control, protect liquidity, and unlock more value from your treasury strategy.
What you’ll learn
How to embed repayment and interest flows directly into cash forecasts
Ways to model refinancing options and rate exposure
Techniques for testing covenant compliance under multiple scenarios
Why FX and maturity ladders should be part of your debt forecasting lens
Who it’s for
This guide is for treasury and finance teams managing debt portfolios across multiple banks, entities, and currencies—and looking to bring more structure, foresight, and strategy to how they plan around obligations.
Whether you're handling high loan volume, navigating volatile rates, or preparing for covenant reviews, this guide gives you practical tools to move from reactive debt tracking to proactive planning.
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