Treasury Resources
Webinar: AR’s Role in Meeting Treasury Goals | January 25
Treasury has a heavy focus on ensuring the organization has adequate liquidity. Accounts receivable (AR) plays a vital role in ensuring cash is collected quickly and consistently. The abilities of the order-to-collect team to 1) make better credit management decisions, 2) speed up collection activities, and 3) process payments more accurately and efficiently drive better results for both AR and treasury. This webinar discusses how the AR function can and must help deliver on the overall financial commitments that are needed to reach the working capital and liquidity targets of the organization.
Webinar: Liquidity Risk Survey Results | January 23
The Liquidity Risk Survey was first run in 2011, probing treasury and finance practitioners on their views surrounding managing liquidity, investing, borrowing, and various risks. This webinar will cover highlights from the survey’s most recent iteration. With a total of 11 years of longitudinal data, the webinar will consider shifts over time in areas such as counterparty exposure monitoring, investment vehicle use, ESG programs, the relative prioritization of safety, liquidity, and yield, and more.
Webinar: Treasury Management Systems & Enterprise Liquidity Management | January 11
The treasury management system (TMS) automates and streamlines treasury’s core tasks, forming a central dashboard for the treasury function and freeing staff for more strategic work. Recent years have seen some TMS vendors expanding into enterprise-wide solutions for tracking and managing liquidity, giving rise to the distinct enterprise liquidity management (ELM) category. From the basic TMS to the highly advanced TMS and the more comprehensive ELM system, each solution serves a segment of treasury departments. This webinar will cover the current TMS and ELM landscapes, innovations, and leading practices for selection and implementation.
Webinar: AR and Treasury: Developing a Feedback Loop for Effectiveness | December 6
AR has a direct impact on the cash conversion cycle, which is a key area of focus for treasury. Managing days sales outstanding (DSO) is both a measure of efficiency and a way of tracking cash usage at month-end, and treasury cares about DSO as well as liquidity throughout the month. Treasury and AR must work together thoughtfully in order to improve cash management operations, optimize cash flow, provide accurate forecasting numbers, and support an organization’s growth with grace. This fast-paced webinar will give practical ways for these two finance areas to collaborate on improvements.
Panel Discussion: 2024 Treasury Trends | December 12
2023 is coming to a close with notable upheaval. Significant wars continue in Europe and the Middle East; central banks have increased borrowing costs to the highest rate in well over a decade; inflation has pulled back from the peak but remains above targets; borrowing costs and access to capital have tightened; FX risks remain elevated; and many CFOs are exhibiting increased caution. Several questions come up as we consider the outlook for 2024:
• How will companies need to respond to this greater recognition of the risk level?
• Are companies going to leverage their balance sheet for liquidity and supporting their trading partners?
• How does technology fit into the picture as an enabler of overhead scalability and financial resiliency?
Join this fast-paced panel discussion about the volatility of the environment and how corporate treasurers expect to manage through these more turbulent times.
Webinar: Short-Term Investing Part 1: Fed Meeting Analysis and Impact | December 14
In this first webinar in the Short-Term Investing Series, Strategic Treasurer and Federated Hermes will discuss the Federal Reserve’s recent actions and guidance for short-term investing. After many months of aggressive rate hikes in its campaign against inflation, the Fed is moving into a new stage of its tightening cycle. Join us the day after the Fed’s December policy meeting to discuss what factors should be in the forefront of investors’ minds and how liquidity vehicles might respond as investors continue to pursue attractive returns.
Webinar: Taking the Pain Out of Treasury | December 7
Strategic Treasurer’s front-line survey of booth visitors at the AFP Conference in San Diego and online from non-attendees set out to discover the greatest pain point in treasury. The options included staffing limitations; fraud and control challenges; rework from errors; liquidity forecasting; and challenges around data, reporting, and analytics. This webinar will review the results and the magnitude of the differences. Strategic Treasurer’s managing partner, Craig Jeffery, will offer his assessment of the levels of pain, why this is the case, and strategies and actions to reduce or eliminate the pain. This session is just 30 minutes, and attendees will come away armed with current information and ideas to implement.
Webinar: Accounts Payable Transformation Through Supplier Payment Automation | November 8
The role of accounts payable (AP) is shifting to be more efficient, effective, and strategic. AP has the ability to help drive out costs, improve its scalability, and add revenue to the organization. The effective deployment of AP automation allows for better communication with trading partners and a reduction in costly defects while supporting a revenue/rebate model for payments. This session will review critical issues within the payables domain and explore methods and tactics to improve the overall value of AP and its positioning within finance, featuring a continual exchange between the two finance domains of AP and treasury in the context of a more comprehensive look at AP processes and value.
Webinar: Revolutionizing Cash Application: Levers for Efficiency, Liquidity and Control | November 7
Complexity caused by additional payment times is adding to historical pain points found in accounts receivable (AR). Poor processes and outdated technology impact every part of AR and create a negative echo effect on liquidity, scalability, efficiency and staff. This session will explain why the challenges have increased and examine ways that companies’ AR and treasury groups are revolutionizing cash application to great effect. The use of technology such as AI/ML, bots, and integration of data and processes are all changing AR. The theory will be supported by several select case studies to bring the concepts to the practical level.
2023 Modernizing AR Processing Survey
Survey Results Modernizing AR Processing This survey, underwritten by Corcentric, looked at various practices and plans for modernizing and automating AR processes. The influence of recent disruptions, calibration of various pain points that drive change, and other...