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Cash Flow Forecasting Articles
- AFP Webinar - Cash Flow Forecasting: Advanced Valuation Techniques
The biggest mistake corporate treasury and finance professionals make when cash flow forecasting is not making clear the operating assumptions that drive the financial valuation, and then not monitoring the realization of benefits during the integration of the business over time...
December 29, 2009
- Problem Solved: Improving Cash Forecasting Without Adding Headcount
What are you doing to improve cash forecasting without adding systems or head count? AFP heard from two of your peers....
August 14, 2009
- Commodity Price Risk in Cash Flow Forecasting: What Role Does Hedging Play?
There are some things to be optimistic about, including the way in which the treasury profession has responded to this liquidity crisis....
January 28, 2009
- SWIFT Seeks AFP Member Input on Trade and Supply Chain Finance Initiatives
SWIFT recently started review of Trade and Supply Chain Finance market practices and has solicited the participation and feedback of AFP corporate practitioner members....
December 18, 2008
- Cash Forecasting in Asia Pacific: Decade of Falling Through the Cracks?
The first thing to remember is that cash forecasting, more than anything else, means facilitating the flow of information. Of course, for it to be valuable, this information must be both timely and accurate....
September 1, 2008
- Treasury Essentials: Manging Resources, Expectations during Global Expansion
Core treasury functions that can become significantly more complex as a company expands across country borders include payments, receipts, cash forecasting, short-term investments and risk management....
September 1, 2008
- Extracting Cash Flow Information from Your Supply Chain
If you're in treasury, you may not know much about the operation of your company's supply chain as the financial activity related to the supply chain is traditionally the domain of the controller and not the treasurer. If that's true then consider yourself lucky because your life may be about to change. ...
May 5, 2008
- Accurate Cash Forecasting: Simple and Straightforward
Beyond the short-term horizon, an R&D forecast can quickly lose accuracy. So it's better to switch to the indirect methods....
April 30, 2008
- Treasury Impacts Shareholder Value, Especially in Times of Turbulence
The sub-prime crisis and pending downturn in the economy has forced many companies to look at ways to cut costs and restructure existing businesses. Rather than just looking at head count reductions and expense scale backs, some companies are looking at internal departments and processes for value creation....
March 1, 2008
- Predicting Fed Funds Rate Changes to Minimize Interest Rate Risk
Our cash flow forecasting columnist says that after a review of the existing academic literature and a bit of independent econometric investigation, five variables were found to be statistically significant predictors of future Fed rate actions....
November 29, 2007
- Cash Flow Forecasting: The Verdict on Regression Analysis
If you asked 100 financial professionals what kind of quantitative technique they might use to prepare a cash flow forecast, at least 95 would mention some form of regression analysis. If you ask these same 100 treasury professionals what other quantitative technique they might use, the majority would have difficulty naming an alternative....
Michael Hunstad, CTP
- The Future of Cash Flow Forecasting
A cash flow forecast is like a heart monitor measuring the financial pulse of your organization. Your cash lifeblood is drawn into your treasury group through receipts and deposits and pumped out again through payments and disbursements. A cash forecast gauges the rhythm of these transactions and ensures that the your company remains stable and healthy....
April 17, 2007
- Return of Liquidity Concerns... but When?
Liquidity risk has not been a top-of-mind concern for most practitioners during these times of excess cash, easy credit and relatively stable global markets. However, recent dramatic increases in leverage and potential changes in market dynamics soon may put liquidity risk back in the spotlight....
February 28, 2007
- Financial Professionals Optimistic on Economic and Employment Growth in 2007
Financial professionals are cautiously optimistic about economic growth in 2007, according to a new survey conducted by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP). Forecasting modest growth for the year ahead, survey respondents expect their organizations to expand their U.S.-based workforces in the coming year. However, financial professionals also cite factors including volatile energy costs, the declining value of the U.S. dollar and rising health care costs as issues of concern. ...
December 19, 2006
- Complement Cash Flow Forecasting with Risk Measurements
Cash flow forecasting is supported by a wide range of statistical methods, but risk measurements, such as Cash Flow at Risk (CFaR), can offer more to the ongoing push to improve cash flow forecasts....
December 4, 2006
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