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Credit Agreement Refinancings: 5 Questions Answered
A number of factors drive a company’s decision to refinance its credit facility. With interest rates on the rise, what considerations are important to CFOs and treasurers?
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3 Ways CFOs Can Help Reduce a Company’s Carbon Footprint
There is no easy path to reducing an organization’s carbon footprint. But over the years, some solid best practices have surfaced.
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Hat Trick: Daniel Tolensky on Finance, Analytics & Hockey
Daniel Tolensky, CFO of Arrivals + Departures and Karma Gaming, discusses his roles in both organizations. He also explains on how his finance background helps in his other role at sports agency The W
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Corporates, Is It Time to Refinance?
Interest rate speculation is providing a big opportunity for corporate treasury and finance professionals who want to refinance their loans.
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Video: Is Blockchain Ideal for Syndicated Loans?
Caitlin Long, chairman and president of Symbiont, discusses why blockchain technology is an ideal solution for syndicated loans.
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Finance as a Business Partner: Contributing to Success
There is no question that finance has a unique view of the organization, able to quantify and, if effective, qualify how contributing systems intersect and contribute to the body.
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How Finance Execs Can Improve the Company Travel Policy
There’s no guarantee employees will follow your written travel and entertainment expense (T&E) policy.
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5 Ways to Make Multi-Participant Budgeting Work
There are significant benefits to engaging employees across an organization in budgeting. But engaging multiple nonfinancial participants in this complex financial exercise is not without challenges.
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Measuring the ROI on Investing in Talent Development
CFOs point to talent acquisition and development as one of their key challenges. But building a strong business case for spending on training programs is hard to do.
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Finance Improvement Initiatives Are Back in Action
Finance transformation is making a fast comeback. According to new research conducted by APQC, CFOs are keenly aware of the need to improve the finance function.
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Today’s Finance Professional Must Be a Jack of All Trades
Why are finance professionals being asked to do more? Because of finance’s connection to business results, it is increasingly seen as strategic business partner.
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The Question for Finance: How Do You Measure What Matters?
AFP recently interviewed Ron Dimon, a director with Deloitte and an expert on enterprise performance management. Dimon and FP&A Manager Bradley Page of Archer Daniels Midland will lead a session about
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Ex-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman on Being a Trusted Advisor
AFP recently interviewed Ret. Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he was the senior officer in the Armed Forces and the military
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7 Ways Treasurers Can Engage More Effectively with the Board
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Survey: Finance Pros’ Pay Increases as Skills Gap Widens
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BlackRock’s Richie Prager to Keynote CTC Forum
Richie Prager, managing director, head of the trading, liquidity and investments platform for BlackRock, will keynote the luncheon session at the CTC Corporate Treasurers Forum, May 22-24, in San Fran
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Finance Leaders Need to Embrace Creativity. And Fast!
Let’s face it—the finance department does not typically carry a reputation of innovation, daring or creativity. But for any business that wants to compete and thrive in today’s economy, that has to c
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Corporate Finance Interview Questions
If you interview in corporate finance, expect some companies to present their questions in the form of business cases or word problems. Whatever your answer, explain the rationale behind your thi
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Supply Chain Finance: Building the Treasury Business Case
James Marshall, head of treasury for Virgin Media, provided attendees of the ACT Cash Management Conference tips on how treasury can engage stakeholders and the board of directors in a supply chain fi
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Three Considerations for Your Hedging Program
Entering into a hedge is, in effect, a pricing decision; so, too, is the decision not to enter a hedge.
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Case Study: A True Global Notional Cash Pool
After identifying the need to centralize treasury management to achieve greater efficiency in managing cash, Marsh & McLennan Companies implemented a global multicurrency notional cash pool.
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Negotiating Credit Agreements: Tips from Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro's assistant treasurer offers some best practices for negotiating and complying with credit agreements.
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Netting, Pooling & In-House Banking: Best Practices
The new CTC Guide focuses on techniques that can improve the use of liquidity across a multinational organization. It examines the core liquidity management techniques of netting and pooling and ident
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How Shell Maximizes Collateral Using Tri-Party Repos
One important and well-used product in Shell’s cash investment suite has been tri-party repo.
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Treasury in Asia: Centralizing Is Hot, Bringing Big Benefits
Two financial executives from major multinational corporations in Asia explained the rewards they reaped from centralizing treasury operations.
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Gripe Session: At Sibos, Lenovo Treasurer Doesn’t Mince Words
The organizers of Sibos 2015 were surely excited when Damian Glendinning, treasurer of Lenovo, agreed to speak at the conference. But after he spoke they might not want to invite him back.
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AFP Responds to Misleading Wall Street Journal Article
The article claims that, “More than half of corporate cash held by U.S. companies this August was invested in investment-grade corporate bonds.” The claim could not be further from the truth.
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Cash Flow At Risk: Better Visibility, Better Planning
Cash flow at Risk can be defined as the extent to which future cash flows may fall short of expectations as a consequence of changes in market variables.
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5 Ways Treasury Can Navigate the Regulatory Landscape
Navigating the compliance, regulatory and operational risk landscape has become the biggest headache for corporate treasurers around the world since the 2008 financial crisis. The pressures aren’t lik
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RMB Devaluation: What It Means for Treasury and Finance
Five takeaways for treasury and finance professionals in the wake of China’s surprise 1.9 percent devaluation of its currency.
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Cash Flow Forecasting In a Complex Business Environment
Cash management as part of working capital management is among the most important priorities of the FP&A professional. And being able to accurately forecast the cash inflows to determine the external
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Has Lending to UK Businesses Turned the Corner?
Lending to non-financial businesses increased £1.6 billion in March of this year, the highest upturn since February 2009. But, has bank lending to businesses really turned a corner?
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How FP&A Can Add Value to Cash Allocation Decisions
Today’s CFOs face big decisions when putting cash to use, and this is when FP&A professionals can be valuable partners to senior management.
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Will Basel III Kill Notional Pooling for Corporate Treasury?
Notional pooling has been an effective liquidity management tool for many multinational corporations. Basel III threatens all that, particularly in Europe.
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Why Majid Al Futtaim Moved to a Payments Factory Model
One of the largest corporate entities in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai-based holding company Majid Al Futtaim owns and operates retail and leisure properties in 13 countries. Majid Al Futtaim’s trea
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Treasury’s Role in Spin-Offs: Five Keys for Success
Companies are increasingly going the spin-off route to boost shareholder value. A spin-off of a division of a business is a difficult process for a CFO to handle -- and by default a major challenge fo
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Will Corporates Benefit from Two New Funding Powerhouses?
Earlier this month, the New Development Bank was launched with a stated goal of approving the first loan by April 2016. But while the arrival of the NBD is noteworthy in itself, this development is ev
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Establishing Higher-Value Corporate-Bank Relationships
Basel III will further increase banks’ pressure on treasurers. The treasurer must consider very carefully with whom he dances, and when, at the following get-together. Then both sides will profit equa
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New Normal: Why Treasurers Must Respond to Regulatory Change
Dealing with a constant stream of regulation has become the new normal for many banks, but the ripples of regulation are far reaching, with corporate treasurers being just one group who have to adapt
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Why Treasurers Are Grabbing Bonds, Alternative Investments
The latest data shows companies shifted more excess cash into corporate bonds for the fifth straight month in April, to a new record of 47.95 percent of total investment.