certified treasury professional

CTP

The CTP credential from the Association for Financial Professionals, AFP, is the global standard for treasury professionals. It validates expertise in corporate treasury, cash management, risk, liquidity, and capital markets.

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Course details

Classes are held online with a live instructor and follow a consistent evening schedule, making it easy to combine exam preparation with a full time job.

Course schedule

  • Class time: 18:00 to 21:30 CET

  • Format: 10 Live Online classroom sessions

  • Location: Online

  • Start Date: September 2026

  • Class Day: Mondays

Price

Total Course Fee: €3.000 + 21% VAT. Includes:

  • 30-hour live online instructor-led exam review course

  • Certification exam fees

  • AFP membership for 12 months One-Year AFP membership

  • Access to CTP Exam Prep Platform (EPP) for 12 months

  • The course fee does not include AFP's additional fees for exam re-registration or no-shows, which are currently USD 250 and USD 100, respectively

Study Materials

  • For this course we use the official study materials provided by AFP.

  • The CTP Exam Prep Platform (EPP) includes comprehensive reading content, quiz style review exercises, timed practice questions, applied case studies, and additional learning tools such as flashcards, pretests, and post tests.

  • The CTP Exam Prep Platform is 100% digital and is included in the Total Course Fee.

  • If you would also like a paper copy of the study material, you can purchase the Essentials of Treasury Management, 8th Edition as a printed reference book for USD 195 directly from AFP. Please note that this book does not include the interactive learning tools available in the digital CTP Exam Prep Platform, such as quizzes, practice questions, case studies, flashcards, pretests, and post-tests.

What you will learn

During the course, we cover all core CTP exam domains, including:

• Domain 1. Maintain corporate liquidity required to meet current and future obligations in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Domain 2. Manage capital structure, manage costs of long-term capital, and quantitatively evaluate long-term capital resource investments.
• Domain 3. Manage internal and external relationships.
• Domain 4. Monitor and control corporate exposure to financial, regulatory, and operational risk (including emerging and reputational risk).
• Domain 5. Assess impact of technologies on the treasury function.

Education and experience requirements

The Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) credential has clear eligibility requirements set by the Association for Financial Professionals. They focus on education, professional experience, and ethics.

You must meet one of the following combinations:

  • Bachelor’s degree plus at least two years of full time professional experience in treasury, finance, accounting, banking, or cash management

  • Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics plus at least one year of relevant full time professional experience

  • No university degree plus at least five years of relevant full time professional experience

Relevant experience typically includes corporate treasury, cash and liquidity management, risk management, corporate finance, or banking roles with treasury exposure.