2010 AFP Pinnacle Awards

Call for Entries
Microsoft. GE. City of Los Angeles. Mastercard Worldwide. PepsiCo Inc. Harley-Davidson Financial Services.

What do these treasury and finance departments all have in common? They have all won the AFP Pinnacle Award and have been recognized as leaders in the treasury and finance community.

Has your treasury or finance team developed an innovative, strategic or a risk management solution in the past year that has contributed to your company's bottom line financial success?

The Association for Financial Professionals® (AFP) and Wells Fargo invite you to nominate your winning solution for a 2010 AFP Pinnacle Award and to take your place alongside the other prestigious companies who have previously been recognized.

Award Categories

The AFP Pinnacle Awards identify excellence in treasury and finance in three award categories: Innovation, Risk and Strategy.

Innovation: Leading Advances in Treasury and Finance
These winning solutions highlight the work of treasury and finance professionals designing and developing new organizational structures, innovative technologies and processes, and sophisticated performance metrics that are on the cutting edge of treasury and finance.

Risk: Advanced Risk Management Methodologies
These winning solutions award treasury and finance professionals for designing and utilizing advanced risk management methodologies that reduce organizational risk related to financial risks, internal controls and compliance, fraud prevention, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Strategy: Treasury and Finance as a Strategic Partner
These winning solutions demonstrate the value that treasury and finance creates as a strategic player within business units and operations by designing optimal capital structures and capital market deal structures to enable corporate growth.

Please note, the 2010 AFP Pinnacle Awards seek to recognize your team's original thinking and initiative. Turn-key vendor solutions will not be considered.

Application and Submission Guidelines
The AFP Pinnacle Awards are given annually to organizations that have successfully developed and implemented dynamic solutions which make treasury and finance more strategic. Submissions are judged by treasury and finance professionals.

Submission Instructions – Simple Online Entry Form

To submit a solution that has added significant value in your organization:

1. Click here to fill out Simple Online Entry Form.
2. Soon after you submit your entry a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address you provide in the form. The e-mail will include a link to your entry so that you can make changes and/or additions as necessary.
3. Please contact Tom Hunt at 301.961.8676 or thunt@afponline.org with any questions.

Deadline for submission is June 4, 2010.

Eligibility

Treasury and finance teams of companies, organizations or government entities - regardless of size, industry or location - may enter for a 2010 AFP Pinnacle Award.

There are no entry fees. Affiliation with AFP or any other professional association is not required. The treasurer or chief financial officer of the applying company must validate all entries, and every applicant must agree to be interviewed.

Judging and Publicizing Winning Work

All entries will be screened to mask any material necessary to ensure blind and impartial evaluation by the judges. All entries become the property of the AFP for the general advancement of knowledge in the treasury and financial field. The sponsors may publish and publicize entries in any manner and without compensation. Entries will not be returned to applicants.

Individuals and organizations submitting entries to the AFP Pinnacle Awards Program acknowledge that they:

• Grant permission to the sponsors and to anyone authorized by the sponsors to publicize the organization's name as well as photographic likeness of the developer(s) of the winning entry.
• Affirm that the submission is the original work of the entrants/treasury department and that it does not infringe upon the property rights of any third parties. Further, affirm that the treasury department has the full right to enter the award program and to transfer all rights in the submission to the sponsors.
• Agree to hold the sponsors harmless from claim by any third parties arising from any use of the submission.

Tips for Submitting a Successful Proposal

Look at the submission categories and decide which category best fits your solution. This will help you frame your strategy for completing the application.

• Seek input from all colleagues who contributed to the success of your solution.
• Stress the unique and innovative qualities of your solution.
• Focus on the value added to your company.
• Stress the synergies and benefits across your entire organization.

AFP Pinnacle Award Ceremony

Each 2010 AFP Pinnacle Category Award Winner will be honored for its winning solution, per respective category, at this year's AFP Annual Conference in San Antonio, November 7-10. Presentation is given in front of more than 4,000 treasury and finance professionals at the Opening General session.

The AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the category winners and be awarded this special honor during the Opening General session. The Grand Prize Winner will also receive a $10,000 charitable donation to the charity of their choice from Wells Fargo. AFP provides for up to two complimentary Conference registrations, transportation and lodging for each of the category winners.

The winners will have the opportunity to present their winning solutions during the AFP Annual Conference. In addition, AFP's publications staff will help the winners develop their entries into articles that will be published in an upcoming AFP Exchange magazine. In addition, each winner will receive one CTP/CCM credit for each page of the published articles.

For a look at AFP's 2009 Pinnacle Award Winners: Click here to read more.

• Strategy: Treasury as a Strategic Partner – Grand Prize Winner City of Los Angeles

• Innovation: Leading Advances in Treasury and Finance Microsoft Corporation

• Risk: Advanced Risk Management Methodologies General Electric