Corporate Case Studies: Best Practices in Treasury and Finance - Association for Financial Professionals

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Features 15 case studies authored by treasury and finance professionals from such prestigious organizations as Wal-Mart, Chiquita and The Blackstone Group. You?ll read case studies written by corporate treasury and finance professionals like yourself on such critical topics as:

Bank relationship management
Capital structure
Cash management
Forecasting
Liquidity

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Read corporate case studies from leading companies.

Wal-Mart's Simplified Pricing
How the retail giant worked with its banks to innovate on pricing and eliminate statement analysis

Ten years ago, Wal-Mart faced a problem familiar to many retailers. Bank fees -- and even the terminology used to explain those fees -- varied across the company's 1,500 banking relationships. In part, it meant maintaining a team that would exhaustively analyze statements to ensure that Wal-Mart was paying what it had agreed to pay. Then, when that team spotted a problem, it meant initiating a recovery process because Wal-Mart?s banks automatically debited the fees.

Today, Wal-Mart has no statement analysis team. And it generates its own fee payments to banks. That is because the company's finance executives have worked with their bankers to eliminate an old problem with a creative new solution.

May 2013 Futures in FinanceThis month, we review the 2013 AFP Compensation Survey. Treasury and finance professionals experienced a healthy pay increase last year, with those at the executive level receiving the biggest boost. Also this month, we bring you our exclusive coverage of the recent CTC Corporate Treasurers Forum in New York. Much of the discussion at the forum centered around the development and retention of talent in treasury, as well as new areas treasury is expanding into. Also, CFO Coach Cindy Kraft discusses the new methods that organizations are using to find the right candidates, and more.
AFP Fraudwatch: China-Backed Group Hacking Corporates AgainHackers sponsored by the Chinese government are back after three months of silence. Although they are more interested in stealing state secrets than corporate cash, treasury risk managers should still be concerned.
Intel Exec: How to Succeed in FP&A – What You Need to KnowBrice Hill, VP Finance at Intel and for five years its chief of FP&A, offers a personal look at financial planning and analysis based on his recent presentation, "Advice I Wish I Received in 2004."
Finance Pros Need Broad Experience to Advance, Employers SayAttendees at last week's CTC Treasury Management Forum agreed that for treasurers to progress in their careers, it is essential that they gain a broad range of experience outside the treasury group.
2013 Comp Survey: Finance Pros See Healthy Salary IncreaseTreasury and finance professionals enjoyed healthy pay raises last year, according to the 2013 AFP Compensation Survey. Of the three job tiers referenced in the report - executive, management and staff level - the executive level saw the biggest boost.

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