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*Commodity Risk Management: Commodity Volatility in Consumer & Industrial Products
Volatility associated with rising commodity prices has a direct impact on raw material ingredients, such as grains, vegetable oils, and sugar. Additionally, higher energy feedstock and transportation costs are adversely affecting production costs. To increase cost predictability, it is critical for companies to understand and design consistent and disciplined commodity procurement and risk management programs which entails upfront alignment of the Company’s risk profile with overall business strategies and objectives. This webinar will focus on key commodity risk management tenets that Consumer & Industrial Product companies should consider in today’s current volatile environment.
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*Understanding the Banking Environment in China
The financial crisis brought change to the banking sector across the world and impacted some companies' operations abroad and how they managed counterparty risk. How do you really build a bank solution that can overcome the diverse regulations but still remain centralised enough to give you cash visibility and fit into your global banking structure? This webcast will look at the banking environment in China and India and how multinationals partner with both global and local banks to achieve the most efficient cash management solutions. This recording is complimentary for CTC members.
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*Turning Over a New Lease on Business Operations: How Can Corporate Practitioners Prepare for the Changes Ahead
Gain tools, techniques and metrics for implementing the new lease accounting requirements and be able to develop practices to integrate the management of leases and assets to improve financial performance.
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*Debit Interchange: Federal Reserve Proposed Rules
In this session we will break down the Fed’s proposed rules for governing debit interchange, including the proposed price cap alternatives and other significant regulatory requirements. We will also review the significant issues the Fed left open for comment—particularly the fraud adjustment fee. Finally, potential implications for each major participant involved in debit card transactions will be reviewed.
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*How Current Tax Policy Affects Repatriating Foreign Earnings
AFP research found that the current tax treatment of repatriated foreign earnings discourages investment in the U.S. while having very little effect on companies’ decisions about whether to invest outside the U.S. Because companies can choose when to repatriate foreign earnings and, therefore when to pay U.S. taxes on those earnings, the opportunity cost of a more favorable tax treatment of foreign earnings is extremely low and may actually increase realized tax revenue. Hear this important discussion covering information about the current corporate tax system, theories about how the taxes should work, and projections to address this issue.
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*Integrating Economic Indicators into Forecasting and Budgeting
The US economy is emerging from its deepest and most protracted recession since the late 1930s. As we move forward, will the US recovery be sustainable given uncertainty such as the instability in the Middle East and the volatility the world economy faces? In this webinar, explore these issues in greater detail, discuss the outlook for the US economy and determine how to incorporate this outlook into forecasting /budgeting.
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*Maximizing the Benefits of Rolling Forecasts [Without Burdening Your Organization]
This webinar will discuss the value of and how to implement rolling forecasts for the first time, pitfalls to avoid as you move to more sophisticated / detailed rolling forecasts, and tricks to save time at quarter end closes. Additionally, we will walk through how an actual publicly traded company utilizes rolling forecasts.
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*Implementing, Adjusting and Expanding a Global Commercial Card Program
Global commercial card programs can result in increased efficiency and better reporting across a company, but the best approach to creating or expanding programs will vary depending on management goals. This session will provide an overview of global commercial card programs, including a basic framework for establishing and expanding card programs outside the U.S. as well as opportunities to expand/enhance programs based on management goals.
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*Easing the Constraints? New US and International rules proposed for hedge accounting
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) proposes significant changes to the current hedge accounting requirements. This webinar will discuss the pros and cons of the proposed changes, and how such changes may affect a company’s ability to manage its risk exposure. It will also describe the similarities and differences between the proposed IFRS standard and the proposed FASB and Canadian hedging model.
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*Beyond Transactions Leveraging SWIFT
Toyota Financial Services discusses and reflects upon the lessons learned while implementing SWIFT across various services and access models. Learn how the company benefited from using SWIFT FileAct interface offering by exchanging non-transaction based information and the operational efficiencies they gained in the process. Learn how your company might gain efficiencies in transaction processing and information management.
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* Managing Supply Chain Credit Risk
The sluggish economic recovery is exacerbating a weak link in companies’ supply chains: the deteriorating financial strength of suppliers. To emerge from the global recession unscathed, companies can no longer simply rely on credit ratings from credit rating agencies. They need to develop their own credit scoring models. This webinar will discuss concrete steps that companies can take to develop these capabilities.
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*Robust Applications for Bank Management
At a time when banks are asking for ever more ancillary business, Treasury Departments are seeking out new ways to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate their banking relationships. This session will showcase the application the panelists developed to leverage relationship data to apply CRM, RAROC and scorecard methodologies to better evaluate and understand their bank relationships.
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*Building an FX Program Within Your Organization
Recent events brought visibility to the impact of currency risk on financial results. Understanding the currency risk inherent in your organization and determining management’s risk tolerance levels is the foundation of a currency risk program. This session will look at types and areas of currency risk within the business flows of an organization, measuring this risk, building an FX team, and determining risk tolerance levels.
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*Dodd-Frank Implications to Bank Relationship Management
Be informed on changes to your bank relationships as part of the Dodd-Frank changes in FDIC Insurance, Assessments, fees, etc. Two key industry professionals will present their perspectives on how best to prepare for the coming changes and what the impacts mean to practitioners.
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*Is Your Accounting Process Lean? Continuous Improvement Strategies for Multinational Corporations
This webinar will explore challenges specific to multinational companies, who must contend with complex, wasteful systems and processes to provide timely, accurate and understandable information. Drawing from real world examples, the session will focus on applying lean methods to multicurrency accounting, control and measurement processes to continuously eliminate waste while refocusing energy and attention on building and protecting corporate value.
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*Same Day ACH Update
The Federal Reserve in August rolled out the same-day ACH clearing and settlement service. This session will provide an overview of the current service, discuss the status of banks, corporates and other participants, early experiences and lessons learned from the implementation of the service, and expectations for the future including potential same-day payment applications. This session offers an excellent opportunity to learn where we are today, immediate next steps for this service and implications for service availability for corporates.
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*Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)- Beyond Bottom-Line Protection to Value Creation
The dynamic of shifting ERM focus to include revenue generation will be discussed, enjoining partners throughout the enterprise, and methodologies that participants may applied at various organizations. Several specific initiatives will be described, including by-products of typical risk endeavors, universal principles that attendees may install locally. This outside-the-box thinking helped Paychex ERM to realize their more than traditional objectives of ERM.
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De-Coding Your Account Analysis Statement
Attendees will learn to de-code 822 Transaction Sets, how to properly assign AFP Service Codes and use them in comparative bank analysis, and ways to simplify the overall management of the account analysis process. Whether you are a banker responsible for creating, bidding and pricing new billable units, or the one who generates the account analysis statements, this presentation is for you. Corporate customers who want to compare apples-to-apples across their existing banks or when selecting a new one through a competitive bid process will benefit from hearing the options and resources available to them to trim their bottom line.
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Why Lease? Leasing as an alternative to debt or equity
Following the meltdown of financial markets, companies continue to confront significant challenges concerning access to and the availability of funds for their capital expenditures. These unprecedented events have resulted in a global repricing of risk and credit, and a greater scrutiny of borrowers by lenders and investors. As leasing remains an under-utilized but economically compelling alternative to conventional debt and equity, join AFP as we present the webinar titled, Why Lease? During this webinar we will discuss the economic, tax and accounting benefits of leasing versus buying in today's environment.
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Treasury Risk Management: Automated and Consistent Financial Reporting
Given the current state of the financial markets, treasuries are under scrutiny by regulators, shareholders and auditors to provide independent and accurate financial reporting, as part of their improved risk management process. This webinar will feature insight from Thomson Reuters and FINCAD, and showcase a practical application by of how corporate treasury professionals are able to reduce operational and financial risk by implementing a straight through process from trade execution to instrument valuation. The presenters will discuss the importance of operational controls, transaction automation, and independent valuations without reliance on banks or brokers to more easily and effectively satisfy internal audit and external accounting regulations as well as optimizing trading and hedging decisions.
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Enhancing Short Term Investing through FDIC Insured Accounts
Seeking higher yields on your short term investments but don't want to tie up liquidity or sacrifice safety? From Merrill Lynch to Charles Schwab, enhanced FDIC insured accounts, with nearly a trillion dollars in deposits, have become the default cash management vehicle for the brokerage industry-now learn how AFP members can take advantage of this rapidly growing investment vehicle as part of your short term cash management portfolio.
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FX Risk Management and Sovereign Debt - Are You Sufficiently Hedged?
Managing FX exposures is critical given the volatility and uncertainty surrounding the Euro and other currencies. How should your company be hedging these exposures? What's the outlook for the Euro, specifically, and from the broader perspective, FX risk management? What is the short and long term outlook for the sovereign debt crisis and how does this affect U.S. corporations? Does your company have the right metrics in place to accurately measure your FX risk exposure?
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*Treasury Reports: Why are they Important?
Transparency and accountability are terms heard more frequently since the economic down-turn. In this webinar we will discuss a variety of cash management reports, who receives the reports, how frequently they are produced and why. Review examples of actual reports and discuss what the data means and how it can be used in your day-to-day operations. Discuss the difference in what should be reported on paper versus what should be reported on the internet.
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Inside Washington: Why Financial Regulatory Reform is Important for Treasury Professionals!
There have been a plethora of issues currently being legislated on the Hill that affect the finance and treasury community - derivative reform, financial regulatory reform, and credit rating agencies reform to name a few. Jeanine Arnett, AFP's Government Relations Manager will update you on recent policies, legislative actions and regulatory issues that impact treasury and finance professionals. Additionally, Salome Tinker, AFP's Director of Accounting and Financial Reporting will cover some of the most recent accounting issues that continue to impact our industry, such as convergence and fair value.
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Developing Treasury Best Practices Utilizing Electronic Bank Account Management
Managing your company's legal entities, multiple bank accounts, and corporate signers can be easier than you'd expect. Electronic Bank Account Management (eBAM) helps to streamline account opening and management processes, improves internal compliance, and brings your company closer to Straight-Through-Processing (STP). • Learn what Delta Air Lines hopes to achieve through implementing eBAM, and how they jointly planned the implementation with IdenTrust.• Hear the most recent eBAM trends.
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Beyond Bottom-Line Protection to Value Creation
The importance of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is increasingly acknowledged with companies implementing standardized frameworks to satisfy regulations, prevent fraud losses and identify internal control inadequacies. However, underlying ERM principles describe the organization's purpose as realizing shareholder value. While the majority of literature addresses the installation of processes to assess and mitigate risks, namely the downside, few ERM discussions describe the upside of risk. Paychex ERM recognized that completely engaging in company-wide objective achievement meant creating value as an integral priority. Hear how ERM professionals from Paychex, with this directive, rolled up their sleeves and installed sensors to identify opportunities at every turn.
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Real Assets in a DC Plan
As defined contribution plans account for a greater portion of employees' retirement income, plan sponsors are attempting to add asset classes that are traditionally found in Defined Benefit plans in order to give participants greater diversification and a better opportunity to reach their retirement goals.Plan sponsors David Biek & Michael Riak of Verizon and Ed Adams of IBM will moderate a discussion with Seth Masters of AllianceBernstein, John Cavalieri of PIMCO, and Rick Wurster of Wellington on potential options to provide exposure to real assets for DC plan participants.
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*Reducing Property Taxes Through Functional and External Obsolescence
This webinar will present an in-depth look at successful strategies to reduce your property taxes by identifying areas of obsolescence. You will learn how to positively impact your company's bottom line by:Identifying different causes of obsolescence, understanding the differences between functional and external obsolescence,quantifying excess capital costs & excess operating costs,calculating the value reduction and incorporate into your return, articulating the value reduction to the assessor and obtain your savings
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*What Financial Professionals Should Know About Unclaimed Property Compliance!
Understanding each jurisdiction's unclaimed property compliance requirements can be overwhelming and even more difficult to put into practice in a manner that avoids liability. This webinar is designed to help the practitioner transform information to policy and then to practice. The practitioner will be provided with the basic unclaimed property compliance parameters and then a case study depicting how United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has met its compliance challenges by designing and implementing pertinent policies and procedures.
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*Wire Transfer Remittances - Important Update for Corporates
Hear directly from the key people from the Federal Reserve Banks and The Clearing House driving the implementation of the new wire transfer message format. Learn about the tools corporates should expect from their banks and software providers to assist with originating and receiving remittance information via Fedwire and CHIPS. Understand the questions you should be asking to surface any implications for your company's internal operations and your relationships with bankers and Treasury Workstation and ERP vendors. Information and issues associated with cross border remittances, wire transfer notification and tracking, and information reporting (including the new X9/BAI standard for presenting wire transfer information that is under development) will also be reviewed.
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*Optimizing Global Treasury and Enhancing the Treasurer's Strategic Value to the Business
Explore keys to success in global cash and risk management, foreign exchange and working capital, and tools to increase efficiency and boost a company's bottom line. Corporate treasury and financial professionals will learn how to improve controls and mitigate financial risk, consolidate cash management operations, and enhance the visibility of daily working capital.
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*What Every Corporate Debt Manager Should Know
The challenges facing the corporate debt manager include new issue structuring, debt retirement, hedging, and treasury performance measurement. We will touch on each of these topics in order to provide a survey of the expertise essential for proper debt management.
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SWIFT for Corporates- Finding the Value for Treasury
SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) was originally created by and for financial institutions; more recently it has allowed Corporates (non-financial institutions) to join and more and more companies are signing up. View this Webinar and get a better understanding of how SWIFT offers opportunities for cost reduction and risk mitigation for both international and domestic operations.
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*IFRS adoption: Is your Company Ready for Adoption?
IFRSs replace Canadian GAAP for public companies for interim and annual financial statements beginning on or after January 1, 2011. The changeover to IFRSs happens in 2011, but affected entities need to make accounting policy decisions under IFRSs - and be ready to start gathering data in accordance with IFRSs - by the beginning of their 2010 fiscal year. Many public companies are still unclear about how the new standards will affect their treasury operations. This webinar will discuss issues with first time adoption as well as compare existing GAAP to IFRS for accounting for financial instruments, including derivatives and hedging activities. While this problem is currently an issue for Canadians, US companies should also beware. The SEC's roadmap set a convergence date at 2014 which means large companies may have to begin to produce audited IFRS statements alongside their US GAAP statements in 2011-2012.
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*ACH Same Day Settlement: When is it, What's in it, and What's in it for Corporates?
The Federal Reserve Banks are readying this new ACH service, which has the potential to provide significant financial, risk management and other benefits to corporations. The webinar will include a discussion of the applications that will be available-and which ones have initially been left out-along with associated benefits and requirements for taking advantage of the service.
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Improving Receivables Cycle With a Focus on Insurance Companies
Prompt cash collection, ease of obtaining remittance data and the ability to apply incoming payments efficiently are among the most important business support requirements for insurance and other companies today. Hear the results from an in-depth survey of treasury collections from some of the largest and most highly respected U.S. insurance companies.
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Enhancing Short Term Investing through FDIC Insured Accounts
Seeking higher yields on your short term investments but don't want to tie up liquidity or sacrifice safety? From Merrill Lynch to Charles Schwab, enhanced FDIC insured accounts, with nearly a trillion dollars in deposits, have become the default cash management vehicle for the brokerage industry-now learn how AFP members can take advantage of this rapidly growing investment vehicle as part of your short term cash management portfolio.
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*What Every Treasury Professional Should Know About PCI
Get an overview of PCI requirements for companies that accept card transactions and learn best practices that companies should adopt to ensure PCI is adhered to across the company.
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*Leveraging Treasury Technology: Achieving Greater Cash Visibility, Improved Controls and Efficiencies
If you are a Treasurer, Controller or CFO who wants greater visibility into global cash, or had errors in your spreadsheets leading to control and audit deficiencies, or simply have accounting, tax and treasury department reports that don't match; it may be time for you to consider leveraging treasury technology. You may have approached this topic before and senior management says no budget? See how the cost/ benefit analysis can help you make the case used by many corporations to achieve benefits, controls and treasury and accounting efficiencies. Learn about key issues, potential solutions and how current technology can be leveraged in a cost efficient manner. AFP Benchmarking Survey information and real life experiences will be cited.
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Treasury Essentials for Doing Business in China
From the perspective of a bank that has been operating in China for over 100 years, learn about the nuts and bolts of banking in China, touching on wholesale and transaction banking capabilities. Then a more in depth discussion on the internationalization of the RMB will be presented. This will include the new regulations on clearing trades in RMB.
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IAT and Beyond: OFAC Compliance for International Payments
Implementation of IAT for international ACH transactions highlighted the compliance requirements administered by OFAC. However, OFAC requirements apply to all international payments and this webinar will address corporate responsibilities across all payment types. Hear directly from OFAC and get relevant information on OFAC requirements related to payments. Additionally, a payments expert from The Clearing House will focus on the current environment and the practical implications for international payments, including issues, problems, best practices, and lessons learned from the IAT implementation.
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The New World of Bank Relationship Management
The recent upheaval in the international banking system has left treasury executives facing a myriad of challenges. Hear a treasurer discuss how to handle changes in bank credit, relationship management and covenant expectations. Also, hear a banker's prospective on the corporate treasury implications of new developments in the financial services industry.
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*Investing your Corporate Cash: Opportunities in the Cash and Short Duration Markets in the New Normal
Investing in the "new normal" presents difficulties for finance and treasury professionals. During this webinar, presenters from PIMCO will offer strategies about how to tier corporate cash and the returns expected from each tier, help identify proper guidelines based on risk tolerance and discuss current market conditions/opportunities in the Cash and Short Duration Markets.
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Advanced Approaches to Valuation Incorporating Unique Cashflow Risks
Determining an accurate value for acquisitions is essential for making good business decisions and investments. Learn how Georgia Pacific (GP), an international paper, consumer and building products company, overcame obstacles during acquisition analysis. By working with a management consulting firm, GP determined the value drivers of the business, analyzed the variability of the value drivers and modeled the valuation using statistical Monte Carlo methods. Using this approach allowed the GP management team to make informed, educated decisions which saved them tens of millions of dollars!
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*Risk Management Series: ERM Integrated into Strategic Liquidity Planning
Many companies have embarked on implementing Enterprise Risk Management programs, but in this webinar you will hear about how to leverage ERM planning into liquidity planning. Learn how to use an ERM program as the basis of stress testing and scenario planning in strategic liquidity planning and use the outcome of the cash impact of the disaster scenarios to evaluate and justify investments in risk mitigation, essentially using the liquidity planning process to support investments in Enterprise Risk Management programs.
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Year-End Legislative and Regulatory Update
As an eventful year in Washington winds down, join AFP's Public Policy staff for a recap of the reforms put in place during President Obama's first year in office. Get an insiders perspective on how these changes affect you, as well as what to expect in 2010. AFP's Manager of Public Policy, Jeanine Arnett, and Public Policy Coordinator, Michael Griffith, will take your questions about what's happening on the Hill, how the new Administration is approaching regulation, and what AFP is doing for you in Washington. This session is targeted at treasury and finance professionals who want to learn more about the current status of important legislative and regulatory initiatives in Washington.
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A Nationwide Depository Solution: Building Consensus, Redefining the RFP, Driving Results
Learn how the United States Postal Service, operating in 80 districts with more than 37,000 retail units, developed a nationwide depository solution to centralize, automate and modernize their Corporate Treasury processes. Corporate Treasury lead the organization by standardizing and streamlining service processes resulting in increased efficiency, improved productivity and significantly reduced costs. Learn how your Treasury Department can positively affect your organization by building company-wide consensus to effectively drive results.
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What is Sustainable Investing?
The field of sustainable investing is becoming increasingly mainstream in the finance industry. By focusing on a clearly defined notion of sustainability, how this investment philosophy is becoming mainstream, and tools and methods to help AFP members navigate the industry, this webinar will help answer the question "What is sustainable investing?" and how a focus on sustainability within an organization can reduce risk, cut cost, and increase opportunity for revenue growth.
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*The Global Bank Billing and Analysis Statement (BSB): The Future of Bank Pricing Transparency
The BSB, the new global bank billing and analysis statement, has been gaining meaningful traction in terms of availability, use, and acceptance. The panel will discuss the benefits of BSB including improved cash liquidity and analytics; determine why banks should promote BSB to clients: and examine its technical structure relative to the 822 electronic bank analysis statement file format.
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*Cash, Liquidity and Risk Management in Asia
Come hear a Senior Regional Sales Representative - Asia Pacific, from HSBC discuss the heightened focus on risk management throughout the region, cash management as a strategic enabler in today's liquidity-constrained environment and the interest and move towards centralization by companies today.
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*Corporate Finance Webinar: Bank Lines of Credit Update
The financial crisis has created intense friction between the banks and their corporate borrowers. From the borrowers' perspective, there are increasingly burdensome strings attached to bank credit commitments. The number of covenants, the pricing and the time required for negotiations have all increased. This session will cover the critical changes in the market over the past 18 months that corporate practitioners should be aware of when evaluating their own lines of credit.
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*Seven Keys to Building a Resilient Treasury
As the turbulence from the financial crisis begins to ease, astute Treasury professionals are taking steps to ensure Treasury and their entire organization is far more resilient for the next event. Building resiliency requires preparing for events that can be expected as well as unexpected and unpredictable events. Unpredictable and unknowable events require a different way to prepare if Treasury is to ensure it is as resilient as possible. Hear from thought and practice leaders about the seven keys to building a resilient treasury. Issues of risk, transparency, visibility, automation, staff and others will be detailed in a practical way for you to use in your organization.
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Disaster Preparedness: H1N1
This session will focus on best practices for emergency preparedness and show how emerging trends being leveraged for H1N1, or The Swine Flu, preparedness may provide an enterprise-wide framework for assessing, managing and communicating many types of emergency events from epidemics, natural disasters to product issues. This session will concentrate on preparedness in the financial services industries and show how treasury and finance professionals can proactively mitigate the impact by lowering the company's risk profile.
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*The Importance of Covenant Compliance in Today's Colder, Crueler Credit Markets
Learn how good debt management can assist a company attain / maintain its credit relationships in today's financial environment. By understanding the 5 key attributes of good debt management such as covenant compliance, accurate documentation and proper communications with your lender you will be able to preserve your access to bank credit, enhancing your ability to manage its liquidity and financial risks.
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Reducing the Federal Tax Gap to Improve Voluntary Compliance - How Will New IRS Proposal Affect Your Current Tax Reporting?
The IRS collected approximately $2.7 trillion in FY 2008 from individual and corporate taxpayers who voluntarily report and pay the taxes that they owe. Despite voluntary compliance, the IRS estimated that the tax gap between what was submitted and what is actually owed to the government to be approximately $290 billion. As a result, the IRS have recently initiated intensive efforts to reduce this gap.In this webinar, participants will discuss the most recent report published in July by the Department of Treasury titled, "Update on Reducing the Federal Tax Gap and Improving Voluntary Compliance;" Learn the components outlined in the paper that the IRS and the Department of Treasury plans on targeting to reduce the tax gap; and more importantly learn how it will affect your companies' compliance with future tax reporting.
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Tightening Up Treasury to Optimize Working Capital
In today's turbulent economic environment, treasury management professionals are being confronted with difficult challenges in risk management and maximizing return. We'll discuss major trends impacting treasury management and offer practical approaches in areas of investment policy, liquidity and bank & vendor relationship management to ensure your working capital remains optimized in this environment.
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Risk Management Series Webinar: Managing Your Vendors: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Dollars
Supply chain risk refers to an uncertainty or unpredictable event affecting one or more of the parties within the supplyIn a lack-luster economy, it is imperative that companies leverage vendors and manage spending dollars. However, vendor risk management does not start and end with vendor selection; it should be performed throughout the life of a contract. This presentation will explore ways to minimize risk and manage dollars as vendors represent financial, performance, schedule and overall risk to the business.
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The Current State of Global Credit Markets: Investment & Financing Opportunities
The credit and capital markets in the US and across the globe have been severely impacted by the global financial crisis. However, the bond markets in the US (for investment grade) have begun to open up. In fact in the first half of the year, there was more corporate debt issued ($812 billion) than for financial institutions. The webinar will begin with an overview of the global capital markets by one of the most renowned economists in the world. Then, a prominent independent investment banker will address the critical issues confronting treasurers in liquidity management and accessing the credit and equity markets, as well as investing in both the short and long term. The session will review the current state of the markets and discuss what investment and financing opportunities are available where and to which credits.
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*Financial Stability, FDIC Assessments, and Bank Fees: The FDIC Perspective
Many financial professionals have become much more interested in the FDIC over the past several months as the financial health of the largest institutions have came into question; bank failures have increased dramatically; and new and higher existing FDIC-related fees have shown up on bank analysis statements, as the FDIC has levied various assessments on financial institutions to ensure the stability of the global financial markets. This webinar will afford financial professionals the opportunity to hear directly from the FDIC regarding the tremendous resources they offer to access the financial stability of your bank partners. Gain valuable insight into recent changes in FDIC assessment methods including, fees based on total assets rather than deposits.
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Unclaimed Property: Ensuring Compliance in the Face of Audit
As state governments scramble to compensate for reduced revenues and close budget gaps in the economic downturn, fines and penalties associated with unclaimed property audits have become an attractive way to bolster state coffers without raising taxes. Auditors are now more closely examining businesses for unreported property, and contrary to past practices, they are unlikely to show leniency to companies that have not filed appropriately. Through a corporate case study, this webinar will explain the current issues that are driving unclaimed property audits, discuss considerations to be aware of on the horizon, and investigate strategies that can be employed to mitigate outstanding reporting obligations, avoid an audit, or minimize the impact of an audit if one occurs.
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Risk Management Webinar: Mitigating Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain risk refers to an uncertainty or unpredictable event affecting one or more of the parties within the supply chain or its business setting, which can negatively influence the achievement of the organization's business objectives. Through a corporate case study, this webinar provides the opportunity to review supply chain vulnerabilities and methods to mitigate supply chain risk so you can keep your operations running smoothly.
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*Hot Topics in Disaster Recovery
It is essential for businesses to stay one step ahead of potential catastrophes that can threaten their viability. As a result, disaster recovery has become an increasingly critical component of risk management programs for treasury and finance professionals. This webinar will review topical disaster recovery challenges and scenarios, and discuss effective strategies that should be employed to address them.
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Treasury Connection Webinar - The New Normal of Bank Relationship Management: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Partnership
The world of bank relationship management continues to evolve, and the looming financial regulatory overhaul has not made the task of maintaining and engaging in successful strategic partnerships any easier. Gain insights from a seasoned treasury professional and one of the nation's largest and strongest financial holding companies as they lead a deliberative discussion regarding how to maintain a successful business partnership in this new world of bank relationship management.
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The Death of Operating Leases: Will FASB/IASB Finally Pull the Plug?
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are working on a joint project to develop a new lease accounting standard to be applied worldwide by 2011. A Discussion Paper establishing the two Boards' preliminary views on the project was released in late March 2009. Learn about this new and very controversial approach for accounting for leases, which calls for the lessee to record all leases on the balance sheet as assets with a corresponding liability for the obligation to pay. It is estimated that US public companies alone have $1.3 trillion in operating lease payments that could be affected by the proposed changes.
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*The Economics of Web-Based vs. Web-Deployed Treasury Technology: Perception vs. Reality
Learn about the latest web-based systems available for treasury. Gain an understanding concerning the perceived and actual differences between web-based and web-deployed technology. Discover the potential benefits of web-based systems for banking, cash & treasury management, online trading, and risk management, and why IT groups embrace web-based technology for treasury. Hear first hand from a corporate practitioner who has implemented web-based treasury technologies, the benefits the organization has realized, and how these benefits may or may not translate to other organizations.
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*The Economics of Direct Access to SWIFT: Can they Make Sense for Middle Market and Smaller Companies?
Conference sessions and webinars examining the benefits of access to SWIFT by corporations have almost exclusively focused on the successful business cases of Fortune 100 companies. Is there a compelling business case to be made for relatively smaller companies? Hear directly from SWIFT concerning recent developments and learn how a middle market corporation has realized meaningful efficiencies thru directly accessing the SWIFT network. Discover the drivers of the efficiencies realized by this corporation and how they may translate to other middle market and smaller corporations.
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*Corporate Finance Series Webinar: The Credit Crisis - That's Another Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into!
The past 24 months have been an extraordinary period of time for the global economy. Many people have been asking: How did we get here, where are we now, and where are we heading? This session will review the events of the past 2 years, describe where we are now, and offer insight to where we might be heading.
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*Diagnosing and Treating Accounts Receivable Challenges in Healthcare
The ability to collect payment for services performed can be a significant challenge for any organization. The challenges are magnified within the healthcare industry due to concerns about privacy, who is making the payment, and extensive state and federal regulations. This session will explore the complex world of healthcare receivables and detail the micro and macro environmental factors that contribute to extended A/R days and escalating operational costs.
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*Retirement Planning: Are You Ready?
Americans are facing many challenges as they approach and enter retirement. Many of us may not be as well prepared as we imagine. This webinar will discuss the issues facing us as we plan for retirement and outline key strategies to help you retire securely and comfortably.
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*Fraud on the Rise: How Corporates Can Fight Back
Against the backdrop of deteriorating financial conditions, especially in the second half of 2008, a significant number of organizations were subject to payments fraud attempts. Hear the findings of the 2009 AFP Payments Fraud & Control Survey. Learn about real-life fraud attempts, the counter-measures that corporate practitioners are taking, and the diligence that must still be utilized to guard against check, ACH and card payments fraud.
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Effective Investor Relations in Uncertain Times
Over the last several years investor relations has become an increasingly important and strategic component of treasury and financial professionals' roles. This webinar explores how the Investor Relations function has changed during the current economic crisis. Investors, shareholders, analysts, managers and boards recognize that we have moved from a world of growth to a world of risk. Treasury and financial officers who also serve as their companies' IR professionals are the stewards of corporate credibility in this world. This webinar looks at how IR and financial professionals are managing in a climate of heightened volatility and reduced trust, in which many IR experts wonder: "What's going to blow up next week?" This webinar explains how IR builds credibility and make sure everybody understands what is going on with the company.
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*Four Strategies for Lowering Payment Processing Costs
In the current economic climate, companies are seeking ways to reduce costs and bolster their bottom lines. For many, processing credit cards and other electronic transactions is a significant expense. Further, processing services can be complex and confusing leading many to overpay. This webinar will outline four strategies you can employ, leading to lower overall payment processing costs.
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Investment Planning
A Review of Modern FinanceIn the last 60 years we have learned a lot about how markets work, and how you can make them work for yourself. This webinar will give you the Cliff Notes on Modern Portfolio Theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Efficient Market Theory, The Fama-French Three Factor Model, and Tobin's Separation Theorem. Don't let all the fancy names scare you. Even if you have never had a course in finance, you will take away basic actionable concepts that will immediately improve your portfolio strategy.
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*Continuous Risk Analytics and Management as a Competitive Advantage in Rapidly Changing Markets
While numerous high-profile trading scandals have heightened the need for better risk management, it is the forward thinking practitioners who manage risk every minute of each day that should be receiving the glory. In today's fast-moving, topsy-turvy markets, every firm needs to assess how their business operations can improve through the continuous generation of risk metrics at a granular level, and how processes can be enhanced to better support the real-time aware operations. This session will offer insights into how continuous, real-time risk analytics and management can benefit the organization and the competitive advantages derived from differentiated services and stronger relationships with clients. A large brokerage firm will describe how it implemented real-time risk analytics, controls and management, and the benefits it received, and a practical framework for defining and deploying real-time risk metrics and processes will be introduced.
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Optimizing FX Exposure Management
As treasury organizations transform themselves into strategic partners under the constraint to "do more with less", it is critical to leverage technology to increase operational efficiencies and control costs. This session will highlight a corporate case study and the realized benefits and efficiencies available by using technology to enhance risk management processes. The case study will provide insight into global FX management, effective pricing, exposure management and netting, workflow, reporting and how to optimize technological applications to enhance your treasury operations.
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Issuing or Amending Your Debt? Beware the Taxman!
Tax Pitfalls in Issuing or Amending Debt during the Credit CrisisA company which issued or amended its debt sometime in the last year may be surprised to learn it has a two-fold tax problem. First, the company may have to recognize cancellation of indebtedness income for the difference between the cash it received on the original debt and the market value of the amended debt (the latter being depressed in this market). Second, the company may not be able to deduct the original issue discount interest on its debt (because of the "AHYDO" rules). However, some tax guidance ensures taxpayers can deduct the original issue discount on its debt if certain criteria are met. It has been found that major law and accounting firms do not think to utilize this guidance, and so companies should be made aware of the relief that is available to them.
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Payment Solution Efficiencies
Payment solutions don't have to be difficult to implement and can bring value and efficiencies to organizations through automation. Hear how General Mills found real dollar savings by matching their payment needs to the right payment method.
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*Valuing Liabilities in Accordance with SFAS 157
This webinar will help participants apply SFAS 157 for liabilities measured at fair value. Review which techniques can be used to estimate an entity's credit spread and learn how to incorporate the spread in a valuation model. Find out how credit ratings effect liabilities' fair value and discuss some of the concepts and tools used in credit risk measurement models. This webinar will also examine some of FASB's current initiatives in regard to fair value measurements.
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Job Searching in a Down Economy: How to Find Your Next Job
News of layoffs continues to dominate media headlines. In today's highly competitive economy, job seekers need to use an integrated marketing campaign that includes multiple channels executed simultaneously-much like companies. In this seminar, you will learn proven contemporary and traditional job search strategies that will help you accelerate your search results.
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*Business Continuity: As Important As Ever!
This session will present a comprehensive framework for crafting and testing a business continuity plan in treasury & finance, including how the plan need be developed from a business impact analysis. It will also review key performance indicators for the plan's functionality. A key feature of the session is its rooting in actual treasury & finance business continuity plan documentation.
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*The Value Proposition for Bank Scorecards
In today's difficult economy, many companies are re-evaluating their banking relationships. In efforts to assist the corporate practitioner with this endeavor, AFP has created a Bank Scorecard. This webinar will discuss the value of bank scorecards and walk attendees through how the AFP Bank Scorecard can be utilized to review the quality of existing banking relationships using specific service metrics.
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Escheatment Compliance Today and Tomorrow
This session will cover unclaimed property compliance basics and then delve into changes in state legislation and policy that were inspired by the pending Taylor vs. Westly case that are impacting business compliance on the national level. Other hot button issues to be discussed include: gift card and certificate exemptions and escheatment, rebate escheatment, and privacy issues related to the transfer of escheatment information.
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*Focusing on 401(k) Fees: Legal Developments
For the last several years, the investment and fee arrangements of 401k plans have been under scrutiny by regulators, Congress and class action lawyers. In this session, we'll discuss the latest developments in the status of the lawsuits filed against 401k plan sponsors and recordkeepers and learn what these cases suggest about the due diligence required of a plan sponsor. The new types of fee arrangements being offered by recordkeepers and investment providers in this changing environment will be evaluated. Determine how section 404c compliance plan impacts the sponsor's liability on fee issues (Hecker v. Deere); examine the Department of Labor's proposals to improve fee transparency; and find out how Congress is reacting to all of these developments.
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*The Competitive Edge: Use Your Non-Traditional Business Skills
Are you achieving the career success you want? What is needed to separate you from the competition? Are you finding that the traditional business skills such as education and experience are not enough to achieve the career success you want? Learn and implement non-traditional business skills.
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*Career Development Series Webinar: Managing a Black Swan - Effective Leadership in a Crisis
This webinar will be led by John Hupalo and Dennis Alimena - respectively, the former CFO of a NYSE company and the author of The Winning Mindset for Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential in Business, Sports and Life. Using a combination of practical issues facing challenged companies and state-of-the-art management theory, Hupalo and Alimena will explore how crisis affects organizations and employees in the context of seven issues which can make the difference between an organization thriving or being crippled.
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*Negotiation Skills
In these challenging economic times, we all feel the strain on our wallets, our careers and our emotions. Join Stephen Frenkel, MWI's Director of Negotiation Programs, for this 60-minute webinar as he introduces a systematic and strategic approach to decision making and problem solving, developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project, that will help you keep your focus and your cool.
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Get Smart: Tools for Breaking Free of 'Phishing' Nets & Other Fraud Traps
Over 70% of businesses are experiencing fraud attacks on their internal data systems. Corporations have become painfully familiar with the negative financial impacts of 'phishing' and the cost to their reputations. Now 'whaling' is targeting C-level executives. Learn how to equip your company with conventional and non-conventional tools to combat online criminals, safeguard payment communications channels and deal with third-party risk.
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