May 2008 AFP Exchange

This executive issue takes on global proportions as the Global Corporate Treasurers Forum of senior level treasury and finance professionals meets in Chicago, May 19-21. The theme is “Exchanging real ideas for real results” and this issue takes its cue from the topics that will be discussed. Geoffrey Bell, executive secretary of the influential Group of 30 economic council sets the tone in “What Next for Global Markets?” The state of natural resources in Russia has influenced its economy but what is in the future for this “Awakening Bear?” It takes just the right kind of ingenuity to extract the necessary data from ERP systems so it can be adapted to the cash forecasting system.  But the proper steps have to be followed.  Corporate Treasurer Paul Lennox tells how a parochial foreign exchange company grew to be a worldwide FX entity and why it’s working so well.

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AFP members can read the full text of selected articles from AFP Exchange. Articles appear on a regular basis following shipment of the print version of the magazine.

• Washington Watch: U.S.-China Relationship Increasingly Interdependent
• Using Soft Skills to Drive the Bottom Line
• Excellence IT Business Value Management Drives Financial Returns
• Quick, Accurate and Cost Effective FX
• AFP Supports U.S. Government Proposal to Adopt NACHA Business Check Conversion Rules
• Global Growth: Payment Innovation Spurs Expansion
• Financial Accounting and Reporting: Managing Complexity
• Cash Column: The Lure of Incremental Yield
• Gill Appointed to Canadian Payments Association Council
• Russia: Booming Economy and Modernized Finance Attract Investment
• Bottom Line: Total Return, or How Professional Connections Add Up Over Time
• Letter from the President: Investment of Retirement Plans, an Executive Issue
• Discussion Lists: The Power of Posting
• Accurate Cash Forecasting: Simple and Straightforward