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Unlock Your Treasury Expertise Today – Download Our Free eBook!

23-02-2023 | treasuryXL | LinkedIn |

Upgrade Your Treasury Expertise Today! Calling all Treasurers, CFOs, Cash Managers, Controllers, and Finance Addicts! Don’t miss out on the chance to enhance your financial skills and gain a competitive edge in the fast-paced world of finance. Our free eBook, “What is Treasury?”, provides a comprehensive guide to treasury management.

Download the comprehensive eBook on Treasury function, compiled by treasuryXL. This valuable resource covers a wide range of relevant topics including Treasury, Corporate Finance, Cash Management, Risk Management, and Working Capital Management.

Drawing on the expertise of Treasury professionals and their best practices, we have carefully crafted clear and concise articles that provide you with the most crucial information about the key topics in the world of Treasury.

In this eBook, we take a deep dive into each Treasury function and explore:

  • The purpose of each Treasury function, including what it is and why it matters
  • The role of specialists in each function
  • Examples of common activities associated with each function
  • A summary of frequently asked questions and answers
  • A conclusion that ties everything together

Whether you are new to Treasury or an experienced practitioner looking to expand your knowledge, this eBook is an essential resource that will help you stay up-to-date with the latest best practices and insights in the field.

How to receive the eBook ‘What is Treasury’ for Free?

We simply giveaway two presents for you! By signing up for our newsletter you will automatically receive the following in your inbox:

  1. On Fridays, our Coffee Break weekly newsletter will land in your inbox. In this weekly newsletter, we will highlight the whole week full of the latest treasury news within our community.
  2. The 41 pages eBook, What is Treasury?

 

Subscribe, Join, Download and Relax.

Welcome to our community and have fun reading!

 

 

Director, Community & Partners at treasuryXL

 

 

LIVE SESSION | Unlock the Benefits of Interim Treasury Management

14-02-2023 ย treasuryXLย | Treasurer Search |ย LinkedIn

 

Join us for a thought-provoking Live Session on Interim Treasury Management, where our experts will delve into the pros and cons of this exciting market.

Unlock the Benefits of Interim Treasury Management: Discover Why it’s a Must-Have for Your Business!

 

 

Our panel of seasoned interim treasurers, including Emiel van Maris, Francois De Witte, and treasury recruiter Pieter de Kiewit, will share their valuable insights and experiences.

This webinar is designed for aspiring interim managers, potential clients, and anyone interested in learning more about this market.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain tips and tricks from the experts in the field and engage in an open discussion.

Register now to secure your spot!

 

REGISTER HERE

 

Everyone is welcome to this webinar.

๐ŸŒŸModerator:ย Pieter de Kiewitย ofย Treasurer Search

๐ŸŒŸDuration: 45 minutes

 

๐˜‰๐˜บ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜Ÿ๐˜“ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ด. ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ธ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜บ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜บ.


We can’t wait to welcome!

Best regards,

 

 

Kendra Keydeniers

Director, Community & Partners

 

 

 

 

Effective Finance & Treasury in Africa | Eurofinance

07-02-2023 | Eurofinanceย |ย treasuryXL | LinkedIn |

Join senior treasury peers on March 7th in London at EuroFinanceโ€™s 10th annual Effective Finance & Treasury in Africa. Understand changing developments and the unique opportunities and challenges of doing business in this dynamic region.

This yearโ€™s speaker line-up includes experienced treasurers – all active in African markets – including:

โ— Edward Collis, Treasurer, Save the Children
โ— Neiciriany Mata, Head of finance, Angola Cables
โ— Marta de Teresa, Group treasurer, Maxamcorp
โ— Chigbo Enenmo, Finance and treasury manager, Nigeria LNG
โ— Folake Fawibe, Integrated business service lead, Danone, Southern Africa
โ— Jan Beukes, Group treasurer, MultiChoice Group

They will discuss important topics including cash and FX, payments, liquidity and financing, digital transformation, share success stories and provide practical guidance on how to optimise your treasury operation for growth.

For the full agenda and to register, please visitt this link.

Quote discount code MKTG/TXL10 for an exclusive 10% discount for TreasuryXL readers.

If you have any questions, you can contact the EuroFinance team directly at [email protected].

 

Registration is open – find out more and register now.

 

 

Brush up on your treasury knowledge? Get our eBook: What is Treasury?

27-10-2022 | treasuryXL | LinkedIn |

How can you fast brush up on your treasury expertise, Treasurers, CFOs, Cash Managers, Controllers, and other Finance Addicts? Or how would you describe “What Treasury is” to family and friends? Well, there is an easy solution for it. Download our free eBook here: What is Treasury?

This eBook compiled by treasury describers all aspects of the treasury function. This comprehensive book covers relevant topics such as Treasury, Corporate Finance, Cash Management, Risk Management, Working Capital Management.

This eBook was prepared by treasuryXL based on the most useful best practices offered by Treasury professionals throughout the previous years. We compiled the most crucial information for you and wrote clear, concise articles about the key topics in the World of Treasury.

We took a deeper dive into each of the above-mentioned treasury functions and highlight:

  • The purpose of each named Treasury function (What is?)
  • What specialists do
  • Examples of Activities
  • Summary of Frequently Asked Questions and answers
  • Conclusion

How to receive the eBook ‘What is Treasury’ for Free?

We simply giveaway two presents for you! By signing up for our newsletter you will automatically receive the following in your inbox:

  1. On Fridays, our Coffee Break weekly newsletter will land in your inbox. In this weekly newsletter, we will highlight the whole week full of the latest treasury news within our community.
  2. The 41 pages eBook, What is Treasury?

 

Subscribe, Join, Download and Relax.

Welcome to our community and have fun reading!

 

 

Director, Community & Partners at treasuryXL

 

 

Understanding the Importance of Working Capital for Treasury

27-10-2022 | treasuryXL | TIS | LinkedIn |

Working capital is a critical consideration for any business โ€“ particularly in an uncertain economic environment. If a companyโ€™s working capital is not managed effectively, the company may struggle to meet its obligations, secure the right level of funding, or invest in growth. But for many companies, gaining full visibility over working capital is often a difficult task โ€“ especially given how it is an activity that spans many different parts of the business.

Going a step further, recent economic and geopolitical events from the past couple of years have presented even more challenges to working capital management. In fact,ย PwCโ€™s Working Capital Study 21/22ย found that net working capital days reached a five-year high in 2020, โ€œdriven by the shock and uncertainty of the COVID 19 pandemic.โ€ More recently, theย 2022 AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Surveyย identified working capital improvements as one of the two most challenging tasks faced by treasury professionals today.

In order to manage working capital effectively, companies first need to understand it โ€“ you canโ€™t manage what you canโ€™t measure, as the saying goes. With this in mind, letโ€™s dive a bit deeper into the core dynamics of working capital and the subsequent implications for treasury and finance.

What is Working Capital Anyway?

Simply put, working capital is the cash that businesses can use to meet their day-to-day financial obligations, such as for paying rent, employee salaries, and supplier invoices. Calculated as the difference between a firmโ€™s current assets and its current liabilities, a strong working capital position is essential to the smooth running of any company. For this reason, working capital is often described as the lifeblood of a business.

Working capital can be measured using a variety of metrics. The following concepts are key when it comes to understanding the component parts of the working capital cycle:

 

 

  1. Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)ย measures how long it takes a company to collect cash from customers and clients (i.e. accounts receivable).
  2. Days Payables Outstanding (DPO)ย measures how long the company takes to pay its suppliers (i.e. accounts payable).
  3. Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO)ย measures how quickly the company sells its inventory.
  4. Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)ย measures how long the company takes to convert the cash spent on raw materials into sales. This is calculated as follows: CCC = DSO + DIO โ€“ DPO.

As a rule of thumb, the shorter a companyโ€™s cash conversion cycle, the more efficiently it is using its working capital โ€“ although typical cash conversion cycle times can vary considerably between different industries, world regions, and company sizes. Any companyโ€™s cash conversion cycle can also be adjusted by optimizing one or more of the above components: companies can speed up customer collections, delay/expedite payments to suppliers, and/or alter the timeframe that cash is tied up in inventory.


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How Does Working Capital Impact Treasury & Finance?

Treasury and finance teams have an important role to play in optimizing their companyโ€™s working capital.ย  Working capital is critical to a companyโ€™s financial health: if the business doesnโ€™t have enough cash readily available, it may struggle to pay its obligations on time. It may also seek more external financing than is really needed or may lack the funds needed to invest in innovation or business growth.

In order to effectively manage these cash inflows and outflows, treasury must not only have an accurate and timely view of their โ€œcurrentโ€ working capital status, but they must also have a grip on future cash flows as well. This means that treasury must be proactive in developing cash forecasts that reflect anticipated changes in working capital, including deviations in supplier invoicing or payment behavior, as well as changes to the level of planned spend by procurement and other internal departments.

By working with other departments such as procurement, AP, and AR, the treasury team is well placed to drive improvements to the cash conversion cycle and unlock the companyโ€™s working capital. Because treasury typically seeks to maintainย global visibility and control over cash positions, payments activity, and general financial workflows, they are in the perfect position to evaluate and influence high-level working capital decisions. For this reason, treasury is sometimes referred to as the โ€œstewardโ€ of working capital internally.

However, there are a variety of hurdles that can negatively impact treasuryโ€™s view of, and control over, working capital.

 

Challenges in Managing Working Capital

While the importance of effective working capital management is clear, there are a number of reasons why this can be a challenge:

 

 

Disparate Data Sources:ย By its nature, managing working capital means optimizing activities that span different departments within the organization, including accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and procurement, as well as treasury and finance. Working capital needs to be managed holistically, with access to data from these different parts of the business โ€“ but this can be constrained by siloes and disparate systems and data sources.

Lack of Alignment & Communication:ย Effective working capital management can be held back by a lack of awareness or competing priorities across different parts of the business. Because there are a range of departments that need to be on the same page in order to drive working capital optimization, it can be difficult to align the KPIs and drivers of each department to achieve a cohesive strategy. For this reason, a strong focus on working capital is needed from senior management in order to ensure a consistent approach across the organization.

Global Operational Complexity:ย Payment practices, vendor or customer behavior, and internal business models can vary considerably across different countries and regions, which can make it difficult to manage working capital consistently at a global level.

Supply Chain Relationships:ย The relationship a company maintains with its vendors and suppliers within the supply chain can have a massive impact on working capital. For example, companies frequently adjust their working capital position by either reducing or extending the time they take to pay invoices to suppliers. However, these strategies can have an adverse impact on vendor relationships, especially if companies choose to delay payment as long as possible. As such, working capital strategies that focus on altering vendor invoicing or payment terms should always be treated carefully.

 

How Does TIS Help Treasury Manage Working Capital?

In order to drive improvements to working capital, treasury teams first need full visibility over their companyโ€™s global cash, payments, and invoicing activity. As noted above, obtaining this data in an accurate and timely manner presents a major challenge for most companies, as does the task of effectively analyzing and leveraging it.

In order to simplify these tasks for treasury, TIS recently launched a new solution,ย TIS Working Capital Insights, which provides companies with 360-degree visibility over their core working capital metrics and KPIs.

 

 

With this suite of capabilities, organizations can seamlessly integrate their ERPs and corresponding AP and AR data with our solution in order to review payment terms and behavior for vendors and customers, analyze invoice and billing activity, and measure all elements related to their net working capital status and cash conversion cycle.

As TIS enables clients to aggregate and classify their data, users can evaluate their metrics globally or granularly according to specific entities, regions, or customers and suppliers. Users can also leverage TISโ€™ visual dashboards for intuitive reporting and refine their analyses by any timeframe to view activity and cash flows through customizable and flexible parameters.

By leveraging these tools in conjunction with TISโ€™ other liquidity and payment management solutions, organizations can access all data and information related to their global cash balances, payment statuses, and broader working capital operations for the entire company. The result is total visibility and control over working capital, and a much easier workflow for identifying the best strategies to optimize it.

For more information about TIS Working Capital solutions,ย download the full factsheetย or request toย speak with one of our experts!


Eurofinance remains THE event for corporate treasurers | By Pieter de Kiewit

12-10-2022 ย treasuryXL | Pieter de Kiewit | Treasurer Searchย  LinkedIn

 

Throughout covid times the organizers of Eurofinance remained active and were able to create interesting web-based events. Still, general opinion in last weeksโ€™ event in Vienna was that there is nothing like the live thing. The programme was packed with interesting content, the event floor with interesting companies and visitors.

By Pieter de Kiewit

Communication leading up to the event and the venue, the Wien Messe, radiated experience in events of this size. The numbers of representatives and visitors were impressive. Luckily, the venue is big enough to not nerve the visitors who have to get used to large crowds again.

The programme was spread out over the very large room for plenary meetings, five large rooms for parallel session with presentations & panel discussions and โ€œopen roomsโ€ on the trade floor. Key note speakers like Guy Verhofstadt and Goran Carstedt were able to enthuse with stories beyond the scope of treasury, others covered topics about treasury technology, both practical & visionary and treasury organization, for example about my personal favourite, the treasury labour market.

For many, the trade floor was easily as interesting as the content. Visitors gained market information, for example preparing for a TMS selection and implementation. Also reuniting with old treasury friends and getting to know new ones, was relatively easy during well catered breaks. Some of the visitors created new legends during the Thursday night afterparty that is not covered by this looking-back-blog.

As treasuryXL ambassador I visited the various partners of the platform present and received positive feedback on the event. So Cobase, Kyriba, TIS, CashForce, Nomentia, Refinitiv and CashAnalytics, we hope to see you again in Barcelona again and welcome a number of new ones.

 

Hasta luego,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading!

Pieter de Kiewit

 

 

Don’t miss the latest episode of TIS’ Payments Hub Podcast!

06-10-2022 | treasuryXL | TIS | LinkedIn |

Don’t miss the latest episode of TIS’ Payments Hub Podcast! treasuryXL expert Patrick Kunz is featured in this edition. The topic of discussion is: Treasury in Finance; What are the newest trends and how can treasurers prepare?

In this episode, treasury and banking expert Kate Pohl speaks with industry consultant and thought-leader Patrick Kunz about the state of contemporary treasury best practices, technology utilization, and more.

Click here to listen to the complete episode


LIVE SESSION | My Treasury Career Development & How the Register Treasurer education contributed

29-09-2022 ย treasuryXLย | Treasurer Search |ย LinkedIn

 

Are you thinking about how you can shape your treasury career and in need for inspiration? There are plenty of education opportunities, but in what education will you invest?

 

 

You are invited to join our next Live Session. Registration is Now Open for:

๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ & ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐“๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐

There is no standard career path for treasurers but one can learn from the choices and developments of the successful ones.


In this webinar two graduated Register Treasurers will share their stories:

  • ๐ŸŒŸ Jurgen Wessel RT is interim Head of Treasury of SHV and has experience in a variety of international companies at HQ and treasury hub level.
  • ๐ŸŒŸ Frank van der Hoeven RTย van der Hoeven used to be a banker, moved to the corporate side and currently is Treasury Manager at IMCD, well-known for many successful acquisition and integration processes.

They will tell you about how they moved between various stations and will pay special attention to the added value of their post academic degree: The Treasury Management and Corporate Finance programme (RT Programme) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).

 

REGISTER HERE

 

Everyone is welcome to this webinar. This webinar is extra relevant for those who consider joining the RT programme.

๐ŸŒŸModerator:ย Pieter de Kiewitย ofย Treasurer Search

๐ŸŒŸDuration: 45 minutes

 


We can’t wait to welcome you next week!

Best regards,

 

 

Kendra Keydeniers

Director, Community & Partners