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Cash Management Accounts

Overview

Cash management services provide businesses and individuals with strategies to manage their daily financial operations more effectively. These services are crucial for maintaining liquidity, seeking to reduce costs and maximize interest earned on cash, favorable tax treatment, and improve the overall financial health.

Key Components

  1. Account Management: Central to cash management, this involves the handling of incoming and outgoing cash flows, ensuring that funds are available when needed and are invested when not.
  2. Liquidity Management: Helps ensure that there is enough liquid assets available to meet immediate and short-term obligations, without sacrificing investment opportunities.  This requires planning and technology.
  3. Investment Services: Short-term investment strategies in seeking to ensure excess cash is working to generate returns with little to no risk, typically through short term government bonds and high quality commercial bonds.
  4. Fraud Protection: Advanced security measures to protect against unauthorized transactions.


Government bonds and Treasury bills are guaranteed by the US government as to the timely payment of principal and interest and, if held to maturity, offer a fixed rate of return and fixed principal value.

The market value of corporate bonds will fluctuate, and if the bond is sold prior to maturity, the investor’s yield may differ from the advertised yield.

Objectives

  • Improved Efficiency: Automating and streamlining financial operations in seeking to save time, reduce errors, increase interest.
  • Enhanced Liquidity: Ensures funds are available when needed (1 business day is all the required notice), enhancing operational stability.
  • Cost Reduction:  Seeking to optimize cash flows to avoid overdraft fees and reduce borrowing costs.
  • Pursuing Returns: Helps earn interest on idle cash, seeking to improve overall financial performance.