Speakers:
Helen Kane
President
Hedge Trackers, LLC
 
Catherine Portman
Global Head of Treasury
Juniper Networks
 

With the threat of a Greek defection from the Euro, treasury departments are taking the lead in their organizations to define and create the strategic response. Catherine Portman, Global Head of Treasury at Juniper Networks and Helen Kane, President of Hedge Trackers will share insights from a recent Silicon Valley roundtable focused on the risk the Euro breakup poses to treasury organizations.  In addition to sharing operational cash, hedge and derivative  accounting concerns, they will discuss efforts to raise awareness with peer organizations, senior management and the board.

Speaker(s)
Michael C. Mason
Sr. Management Consultant
Accretive Solutions

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 April24 and 25, 2012  1:00-3:00 PM ET each day (total of 4 hours)

Financial Planning and Analysis is composed of three fundamental planning processes—strategic, operating/financial, and forecasting—and the analysis of actual performance relative to those plans.

Corporations have long had a tendency to produce these three sets of plans in isolation, which ultimately results in a breakdown—a de-linking of corporate plans from core business processes and activities. Learn best practices to integrate the base planning processes and ensure that each is action-oriented and performance-based.
 

Speaker(s)
Dean Sorensen
Director
Archetype Consulting

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 April 10, and April 17, 2012 

1:00 - 3:00 PM ET(each day)

Rolling forecasts have the potential to provide one of the most significant sources of value for global organizations. Why? Because the capabilities supporting fully integrated forecasting processes are the same ones enabling organizations to achieve aspirations of being more flexible, responsive, innovative, cost effective and customer-focused. Rolling forecasts can take many forms. Some believe it to be a replacement for annual budgeting processes, but collapsing budgeting into a meaningful monthly forecasting process is proving easier said than done, especially in global organizations. What’s being discovered is that they can’t achieve sufficient strategic, financial and operational integration to make such a process effective. This seminar provides a blueprint for establishing such a process.

Learning Objectives:

This seminar will provide participants with the following insights:

• Examine an integrated rolling forecast and understand the incremental capabilities it has that organizations typically lack
• Learn how the process supports scenario planning and enables organizations to simultaneously evaluate the impact of decisions on segment profitability, cash flow, income / value added tax, foreign currency, working capital, inventory and project ROI
• Understand how the process exposes risks in supply chains, product, customer and project investment portfolios
• Learn how these incremental capabilities address issues that undermine the effectiveness of, and value realized from, investments in ERP, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management and Sales & Operations Planning
• Explore new technologies that enable this process and how they can be used with the above applications to operationalize it 
• Determine how these breakthrough improvements provide the means to create significant and specific sources of value
• Learn to implement these processes

Speakers:
Helen Kane
President
Hedge Trackers, LLC
 
Catherine Portman
Global Head of Treasury
Juniper Networks
 

With the threat of a Greek defection from the Euro, treasury departments are taking the lead in their organizations to define and create the strategic response. Catherine Portman, Global Head of Treasury at Juniper Networks and Helen Kane, President of Hedge Trackers will share insights from a recent Silicon Valley roundtable focused on the risk the Euro breakup poses to treasury organizations.  In addition to sharing operational cash, hedge and derivative  accounting concerns, they will discuss efforts to raise awareness with peer organizations, senior management and the board.

Speaker(s)
Michèle Allman-Ward
Managing Partner
Allman-Ward Associates, Inc.

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February 21, 28 and March 6, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM ET each day (total of 9 hours)

Never has it been more important for companies to manage their working capital and overcome the challenges of managing global liquidity. This series of three highly interactive sessions is designed to introduce participants to the more advanced topics of international cash management, culminating in a case study on which teams will work and present in session 3.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the risks associated with doing business internationally and identify tools available to the treasurer
• Examine the available options in terms of when to open an account and where to domicile it
• Consider the many ways in which treasury can optimize liquidity
• Implement a structure that will manage global cash and liquidity

March 6, 13 and 20, 2012
12:00 - 3:00 PM ET each day (total of 9 hours)

This seminar will guide the treasury and finance practitioner through a technology implementation project from the RFP through the final evaluation and assessment.  Examine the requirements of a technology solution and learn to define and understand criteria. Next, learn techniques for assessing the requirements and determining which solution which best fits the department, regardless of any resource constraints the treasury may have. Finally, gain a greater understanding of the implementation process.  Learn strategies for implementing the solution efficiently while avoiding any common missteps.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to identify and define the technology solution requirements of a treasury department
• Develop the initial requirements definition exercise into a technology selection project embracing the specific nature of different treasury environments
• Acquire the fundamentals of project management to deliver a successful implementation of the selected system