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The treasurer and data

| 13-12-2016 | Lionel Pavey |

dataTreasurers are confronted with new data every day – just think of the daily download from the bank statements. As this is a constant process, treasurers need to able to perform real-time financial analysis.

This analysis has to be performed with various internal data management sources, together with external data such as foreign exchange and interest rates. Originally this was done with rather large static data like annual budgets, but nowadays there appears to be a change in sentiment towards more proactive rolling forecasts.

The treasurer has a multitude of tasks including cash flow forecasting, hedging of foreign exchange and interest rates, investing excess funds, acquiring funding, advising on liquidity and financial risks, maintaining relationships with financial institutions. To be able to do all this requires a good continuous flow of internal data, together with an understanding of data analysis.

Treasurers need to be more proactive and interact and understand the requirements of all departments and divisions within the company. They need to be able to zoom in and out between the macro and micro levels and gain a better understanding of the business fundamentals through the whole scope from procurement to sales.

 The 5 biggest challenges

  • Receiving timely and accurate data
  • Recognizing and acting on data – both structured and unstructured
  • Keeping abreast with the constant changes in data technology – blockchain
  • Becoming truly proficient at data analytics
  • Continuous feedback to data providers to show how their data has been incorporated and used

So, just a few extra activities on top of the normal roles of forecasting, negotiating, risk management, and people management.

It is clear that the duties of a treasurer are many and that the job is a very special one requiring both proactive and reactive skills. For all of this to work, companies have to get all relevant staff to think the same way and understand the importance of continuous, timely and accurate data. Good structured data analysis can transform a company’s understanding of its business and provide important insight into its workings. This can lead to better knowledge of customers’ requirements, working capital flows, comparing internal data to industry or sector trends, changes to strategic thinking etc.

There are 2 sorts of data scientists: First those who can extrapolate from incomplete data….

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Lionel Pavey

Cash Management and Treasury Specialist – Flex Treasurer

We overschatten de snelheid waarmee de financiële wereld kan veranderen

| 7-12-2016 | Olivier Werlingshoff |

bankgebouwen‘We overschatten de snelheid waarmee de financiële wereld kan veranderen’ is de titel van een interessant artikel in het Financieele Dagblad van woensdag 30 november.

‘Grote financiële instituten omarmen massaal technologische vernieuwingen. Fintech is geen bedreiging maar een kans. Volgens fintech-goeroe Chris Skinner is dat vooral marketing. Traditionele banken hebben geen benul van wat er op ze afkomt en onderschatten de impact van nieuwkomers op de markt.’ Chris Skinner zegt vervolgens: ‘Tegelijkertijd onderschatten we de impact van fintech. Dat komt niet omdat er geen vernieuwingen zijn, maar omdat er een grens is aan de hoeveelheid start-ups en wat zij kunnen bereiken.’ Het volledige artikel is te lezen via deze link.

Wij  hebben onze expert, Olivier Werlinghoff, gevraagd om commentaar te geven en dit is zijn reactie:

Mijn mening is dat op het vlak van cash management heel veel fintech bedrijven gaan samenwerken met gevestigde banken. Het goede van fintech is dat ze met vernieuwende ideeën komen. Het grote voordeel inderdaad van banken is het vertrouwen, het kapitaal en niet onbelangrijk: een enorm klantenbestand!

Nadeel van fintech bedrijven is dat klanten overspoeld raken met nieuwe mogelijkheden en tussen de bomen het bos niet meer zien. Vaak hebben vooral de kleinere en mid-corporate klanten niet voldoende kennis in huis om een gefundeerde afweging te maken van het nut en de toegevoegde waarde van een fintech oplossing. Door te gaan samenwerken met banken kan vertrouwen worden verkregen en een enorme afzetmarkt.

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Olivier Werlingshoff

Managing Consultant at Proferus

Het belang van cash management in de aanloop naar bedrijfsoverdracht

| 30-11-2016 | Peter Schuitmaker |

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Het belang van cash management in de aanloop naar bedrijfsoverdracht wordt vaak onderschat. Onnodig en zonde! Want cash management levert onmiddellijk een verbetering van de liquide positie of een verlaging van de rentedragende schulden.  

Als voorbeeld een handelsonderneming. De omzet is 100. De bruto marge is 15.  De directe kosten zijn 10. De onderneming groeit met een 2%, vergelijkbaar met de prijsindex.  We kunnen hier dus spreken over een  stabiele exploitatie in een evenwichtige omgeving. De onderneming wordt gewaardeerd op basis van de methodiek Adjusted Present Value. De waarderingsuitkomst komt uit op 30.

Qua werkkapitaal heeft de onderneming zijn de zaken echter niet goed op orde.  De omloopsnelheid voorraden is 4.  Dat wil zeggen: de gemiddelde verblijftijd van de voorraad is circa 90 dagen. Ook betalen de debiteuren structureel te laat door onvoldoende debiteurenbeheer. De overeengekomen betalingstermijn is 30 dagen.  Maar de betalingstermijn is gemiddeld 60 dagen.

Waarderingsmethodiek Adjusted Present Value

De waarderingsmethodiek Adjusted Present Value is bij uitstek geschikt om business modellen en strategische opties door te rekenen. Met name om te beoordelen of er optimaal aan waarde-creatie wordt gewerkt. Zo geeft De APV methodiek handvatten voor de evaluatie van strategische opties.

Een omloopsnelheid voorraden van 15 x lijkt theoretisch haalbaar. Praktisch gezien kan 12 x worden gerealiseerd. Door stringenter debiteurenbeheer lijkt een debiteurentermijn van 35 dagen haalbaar. Wanneer deze verbeteringen over een periode van 2 jaar worden geïmplementeerd wordt waarde toegevoegd. Met management begroot incidentele ontwikkelingskosten van 0,5% van de omzet gedurende jaar 1 en 2. Daarbij valt te rekenen met structurele beheerkosten van 0,9% van de omzet. De waarderingsuitkomst komt nu uit op 40: een verbetering van 33%. Deze verbetering wordt enkel en alleen bereikt door de implementatie van een beter cash management.

Kortom: op weg naar bedrijfsoverdracht? Evalueer eerst uw cash management!

Peter Schuitmaker van BBO&F BREDA is Register Adviseur Bedrijfsopvolging. Hij is auteur van diverse boeken over bedrijfsoverdracht. Onlangs verscheen zijn boek “Een bedrijf overnemen? Keuzes maken en stappen zetten”. Dit boek is geschreven voor professionals die zich willen oriënteren op bedrijfsoverdracht.

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Peter Schuitmaker

Registered Advisor for Business Transfer and Succession

 

 

 

International direct debit, the one true advantage of SEPA

| 11-11-2016 | Jan Meulendijks |

photo-1456930266018-fda42f7404a7-1At its introduction time SEPA seemed to be just another (more complicated) payment method, more imposed by EU-regulations than a market requirement. For international for exporting companies however, there is a very interesting bonus in the form of SEPA’s possibilities in the field of direct debit. Foreign bank accounts can be debited (for receivables) in the same way as Dutch bank accounts.

SEPA has contributed a lot to the awareness of using international direct debit. Before SEPA, companies had to to go through a complicated process in order to be able to process international direct debits:

– Set up multiple foreign bank accounts, in every country you export to
– Include these accounts in your cash pool and electronic banking environment
– Use unfamiliar local IT-tools and file formats
– Expensive to use and set up, lots of documentation required
-These were reasons for international operating companies not to apply the instrument of international direct debit.

All that is not necessary anymore. The main things are to arrange a SEPA Direct Debit contract with your own Dutch bank and obtain a direct debit mandates (one-off or recurring) from your foreign clients, similar to getting one from Dutch clients.

The mandates are sent to the debtor’s bank for registration. The transactions themselves can be included in your regular direct debit SEPA-batch alongside with your Dutch direct debits and presented to your bank for processing.

The result will be a better grip on your international receivables, cash planning, working capital management, all at low costs.

Your bank will be able to explain the procedures to follow.

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Jan MeulendijksJan Meulendijks – Cash management, transaction banking and trade professional

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Experts talk about a DIY Approach to Corporate Borrowing

| 07-11-2016 | Douwe Dijkstra, Lionel Pavey |

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Last week we came across an article about DIY Corporate Borrowing (gtnews.com). The author stated that: “A do-it-yourself (DIY) credit application using publicly available information can help corporations better understand how they are seen by lenders and cuts the risk of financing not being available when it’s most needed.” We have asked our cash management experts Douwe Dijkstra and Lionel Pavey to give us their opinion on this approach. 

 

 

douwedijkstrarondDouwe Dijkstra
“I would like to react to the paragraph: “Services, such as cash management, trade finance and other fee-based services, require little or no equity for the bank to sell them and can appear to be much more profitable. From time to time a bank will instruct its sales force to push the products and services that require less capital and restrict sales of capital intensive ones such as loans.”

In my opinion banks nowadays already include exclusive provisions in their loan documentation for additional side business when providing finance to corporates. As a consequence you find yourself condemned to the cash management solution of a bank which is far from efficient for your purposes i.e. they do not have a presence in your area or one of the areas where you are active. The same is true for the “no further indebtedness” clauses in their loan documentation that prevents you, as a treasurer, selecting the best fitting financial product for your company. As an interim treasurer working for several private equity owned companies I am often faced with these restrictions. Regularly private equity companies have already signed the loan documentation without properly assessing side business terms in the contract. ”

lionelrondLionel Pavey
“Money is a commodity that is fungible – it is homogeneous and can be exchanged or replaced by a similar unit of currency and we would be indifferent to this change.

However, loan documentation is certainly not homogeneous – a quick scan through the documentation of different lenders will show different terms and conditions.

A DIY credit application therefore requires the existence of a standard set of documents. There are certain examples, such as the Loan Market Association, who do attempt to make standard documentation.

Up to now banks have traditionally been the suppliers of credit to companies, though there is no law or reason stating that they have the sole right to do this. To open up the loan market to third parties would require clearly defined documentation, along with criteria that must be met to engage with the market – detailed accounts that have been signed off and approved by independent auditors etc.

Lenders would have to submit their audited figures within an agreed timeframe so as not to be in default on their loans.

If such a market did come into existence and it was truly open to all contributors, it would also lead to fair greater transparency of the pricing policy that lenders use. The price of debt for each and every level of credit rating could be observed, together with implied premiums for country, industry etc. This is the opaque area where banks have a clear advantage – they have their own internal guidelines and pricing mechanics that no one else gets to see. The pricing should be more transparent – this would enable potential borrowers to have greater insight into price discovery which is a cause of concern for many funding issues as, for many companies, it is difficult to passively see what the potential price of debt for them would be.

An opening up of any financial market should be welcomed and make it easier for other potential lenders to see what risks the rest of the market are prepared to accept and also price changes. This would then allow companies to better manage their external relationships – they can separate their loan relationships from their core banking relationships.”

 

Efficiency, kostenbesparing en cash vrijmaken door werkkapitaal optimalisatie

| 24-10-2016 | Olivier Werlingshoff |

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In een artikel las ik vorige week dat er binnen bedrijven weinig animo is voor cashmanagement en de optimalisatie hiervan. Reden dat wordt aangedragen is dat cashmanagement niet als sexy wordt ervaren binnen organisaties. De vraag is vervolgens waarom? Er kunnen behoorlijk veel efficiency slagen worden gerealiseerd op dit vlak maar ook keiharde kosten verlagingen. Daarnaast kan een goed cashmanagement helpen om meer inzage te krijgen in je werkkapitaal. Dit laatste heeft als voordeel dat de knoppen waaraan je kunt draaien om je werkkapitaal te optimaliseren beter zichtbaar en herkenbaar worden.

Mogelijk is de reden dat omdat cashmanagement verweven is met verschillende afdelingen het moeilijk is om verbeteringen te herkennen en aanpassingen door te voeren. Voornamelijk binnen de mid-corporate bedrijven, bedrijven met een omzet tot +- 500 miljoen omzet, zijn er wel degelijk snel efficiency slagen en kostenbesparingen door te voeren. Aan de hand van een paar voorbeelden wil ik een tipje van de sluier oplichten.

Cashmanagement bestaat uit betalingsverkeer, liquiditeitenbeheer en werkkapitaal beheer. Een paar simpele voorbeelden waar efficiencyslagen zijn te behalen:

  • Automatisch reconciliëren van bankmutaties in ERP systemen. Het lijkt een open deur maar je zult versteld staan hoeveel handmatige boekingen er nog worden uitgevoerd.
  • Door de bankencrisis hebben bedrijven hun gelden verspreid over verschillende banken. Risicomanagement technisch een goede zet maar om een goed beeld te hebben van je cash positie heb je veel banksystemen nodig met de bijbehorende tokens. Door het aantal banken te verminderen heb je sneller een beter zicht. Maar mocht je de verschillende banken toch willen aanhouden dan zijn er systemen op de markt te verkrijgen waarmee alle banken aangestuurd kunnen worden. Voordelen zijn met één inlog zicht op je totale cash positie. Daarnaast hoef je bij het autoriseren van betalingen niet verschillende systemen te gebruiken.
  • Heel veel bedrijven gebruiken nog steeds papieren afschriften. Vaak worden ze ook dagelijks ontvangen en gearchiveerd. Efficiency is te realiseren door de afschriften vanuit het banksysteem digitaal op te slaan. Naast ruimte besparing is ook het zoeken naar mutaties eenvoudiger.
  • Door éénmaal per week betalingen uit te voeren bespaar je tijd en kun je toch dagelijks betalen door een betaaldag te selecteren in de batches. Wanneer je een autorisatiescheiding hebt waarbij als voorbeeld controllers betalingen moeten goedkeuren, kunnen ze hier standaard tijd voor reserveren.
  • Wanneer je vaak liquiditeiten op deposito’s stalt of vreemde valuta aankoopt is het handig om jaarlijks een vaste spread met je bank af te spreken. Hierdoor voorkom je dat je telkens moet gaan onderhandelen over een goede rente of een scherpe koers.

Bovenstaande zaken zijn voorbeelden die vaak vanzelfsprekend zijn maar niet binnen elke organisatie worden uitgevoerd. Om hierachter te komen kun je het best op de afdeling gaan zitten en stuk voor stuk samen met de betreffende medewerker de verschillende processen doornemen. Het afpellen van de processen. Dit kan worden gezien als een soort “Big Brother is watching you”. Door hiervoor de tijd te nemen, je op de afdeling in te burgeren vaak te communiceren en de medewerkers te betrekken bij de aanbevelingen kun je dit gevoel verminderen.

In een volgend stuk wil ik voorbeelden aangeven van kostenreductie en hoe je door cash awareness binnen organisatie te promoten, cash kan vrijmaken.

WERFIAD biedt diensten aan waarbij samen met medewerkers op de werkvloer wordt gekeken en gezocht naar processen die efficiënter kunnen worden ingericht. Afspraken over “no cure no pay” of het aanbieden van een korting op de eerste 20 consultancy uren kunnen een drempel wegnemen om een eerste start te maken met het optimaliseringsproces. Is je interesse gewekt en wil je meer weten, ik ben bereikbaar op 06-83629427 of neem een kijkje op www.werfiad.eu

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Olivier Werlingshoff

Managing Consultant at Proferus

Waarom is er weinig interesse voor Cash Management?

| 06-10-2016 | Maarten Verheul |

cash1Overal waar ik binnen kwam waren er Cash problemen. Door simpelweg het Credit Management wat strakker aan te pakken was er binnen twee weken weer genoeg cash voor de korte termijn. Een aanmaningssessie en een telefoonronde is vaak al voldoende.

Voor de lange termijn zijn er vaak ook wel zaken te bedenken. Nog niet ingestuurde subsidie aanvragen en toch ook nog terug te ontvangen vennootschapsbelasting door middel van Carry Back, Buitenlandse BTW, oninbare BTW, Suppletie aangifte BTW.

Waarom besteden we meer tijd aan de Winst en Verliesrekening dan aan Cash? Kunt U morgen alle vervallen facturen betalen?

“Waarom besteedt slechts 10% van de bedrijven aandacht aan liquiditeitsprognose?” :

  • Het bedrijf onderschat de waarde 53%
  • Er is geen kennis in huis 21%
  • Het management is niet geïnteresseerd 13%
  • Het bedrijf heeft geen bankkrediet 5%
  • Andere reden 8%

Mijn grootste hobby is Cash Management. In het verleden heb ik daar grote successen mee gehad en bedrijven mee gered. Ik heb de salarissen nooit één dag te laat betaald, omdat ik wist hoe de vlag van de Cash er voor stond. Als je weet hoe de vlag er voor staat, dan pas kun je keuzes maken. Als je het niet weet dan is er geen keuze meer. Of u stuurt de betalingen in naar de bank en de bank belt dat ze niet worden uitgevoerd. Dan wordt het pas echt gezellig, want de volgende dag belt de bank weer dat u bij Bijzonder Beheer van de bank komt.

De kern van het probleem is volgens mij dat Cash niet als sexy ervaren wordt. Het lijkt zo banaal en helemaal terug tot de elementen. Men zegt liever:  “Ik ben business controller.”. Toch is de Cash-positie en -planning wel één van de meest elementaire zaken die binnen een onderneming goed geregeld moeten zijn.

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Managing cash across borders

| 01-09-2016 | Olivier Werlingshoff |

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ING has launched a tool for managing cash across borders. Dubbed Virtual Cash Management (VCM), the solution, announced on the 24th of August, provides an array of digital solutions for corporate treasurers, including internal transfers, reconciliation and invoice matching. It also supports payment-on-behalf-of subsidiaries transactions, as well as collection-on-behalf-of subsidiaries transactions. (pymnts.com)

ING about this new tool:

 

 

“Virtual Cash Management (VCM) is a next-generation digital cash management solution centred around treasurers’ current and future needs. Designed to help treasury functions reach the next level of optimisation, VCM facilitates centralised cash management, visibility and control – without the significant cost or complexity that is traditionally associated with such goals.

The Virtual Cash Management solution combines a cross-border Virtual Bank Account (VBA) structure with Virtual Ledger Accounts (VLA) displayed in an advanced multi-bank cash management dashboard, offering a group-wide view of all payments, collections and cash – as well as enhanced reporting functionalities.” (ingwb.com)

What do our experts think about this tool? Will this help treasury functions reach the next level of optimisation?

Olivier WerlingshoffOlivier Werlingshoff:

Banks are looking for alternatives for the notional pooling. Companies use notional pools to compensate the positive balances from one account with the negative balance from another without moving any balance. Another positive aspect of notional pools is that intercompany transactions are avoided.

By using virtual accounts companies can still keep all transactions related to one bank account. For banks, on the other hand, virtual account are only virtual and uses one and the same real bank account for all transactions.

This is one option to avoid notional pools.

The Corporate Treasurer and Blockchain

| 17-08-2016 | Carlo de Meijer |

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While it has been widely reported that – despite its disruptive character – the majority of banks think that innovations such as blockchain technology will positively impact their business and are exploring how they can use blockchain to their advantage, it is still largely a grey area for many corporate treasurers. But given the various challenges that corporate treasures are facing today, they also need to pay attention to this ‘cutting-edge’ blockchain technology. 

Complex environment

Today’s business environment for corporates that are internationally active can be highly complex from a treasury point of view. The treasury includes basic tasks like cash management, bank relationship management, payments, and corporate investing.

The corporate treasurer strives to achieve optimal working capital utilization to ensure that the financial supply chain efficiently and effectively supports the physical one. It does this by monitoring global cash positions and managing credit facilities across all bank accounts of the group companies to move cash to where and when it is needed.

“Cash management and forecasting are more challenging because of increasing business complexity.  The level of complexity is likely to get worse over the next two years”

In the digital era, real-time insight into a company’s global cash positions and cash requirements and the ability to move monies intraday is increasingly needed to support this changing business environment.

Today’s model of international correspondent banking however does not easily facilitate the ability to manage cash in a real-time environment.

Challenges

Corporate treasurers thereby face various challenges.

A first one is to obtain in a timely manner consolidated information of group-wide multi-currency positions across a fragmented banking network. This is needed to optimize the financing mix and duration of funding against expected and actual enterprise cash flows.

A second key challenge is optimizing the automation of “order-to-cash” and “purchase-to-pay” cycles with an optimal rate of straight-through-reconciliation (STR) of cash to accounting.

Need for …..

Cash management and forecasting are more important than ever for a company’s financial success, but they have also become more difficult to execute. And the pressure to provide insightful and proactive cash reporting and forecasting is only likely to grow. Management outside of treasury needs a better understanding of a company’s cash positioning and forecasts.

To execute in this environment, treasury functions will need to find ways to provide management with information on cash positions and cash forecasts faster and with deeper insight.

So where should treasury start, in order to improve forecast quality despite increasing internal and external forces that adverse impact reporting?

Blockchain enters the stage

But there is a technology available to take the pressure off the modern cash management professional: Blockchain. This technology could fundamentally affect the various areas of corporate treasury  as it could transform how financial transactions are recorded, reconciled and reported.

The potential applications of blockchain technology for the treasury are vast. They may  range from cash management and correspondent banking, to trade finance and documentation, supply chain management, commodity financing and account opening.

Especially for treasury relevant payments, when applying blockchain, these could be executed instantly between the various participants. As the ownership and provenance of transactions can actually be embedded in the blockchain data, blockchain has the potential to be used for mainstream payments, thereby providing  a robust and secure framework for verifying transactions.

Benefits

Blockchain  could have a number of positive impacts on the transparency, efficiency, cost and risk issues currently associated with corporate treasury. This may bring them various benefits.

  • It will allow for improved liquidity management. Blockchain has the potential to enable real-time/instant insight in a corporate’s liquidity position and how quickly they can provide liquidity to their corporate.
  • The transparency brought about by blockchain technology between the various players could bring benefits especially for those activities that need multiple controls such as transfer of payments. Such transfers can be done much quicker and in some instances even instantly.
  • It will also allow for improved risk management. As the credibility of debtors and creditors is supposed to be known at all participants blockchain will also contribute to more security.
  • Treasurers are nowadays under pressure to reduce costs. Blockchain may allow much lower trading costs for banks because much less parties are involved for reconciliation purposes. Some even say it could save banks billions of euros. And if banks could provide their services to corporates at lower costs that might be of great help for treasurers.
  • And what about the use of smart contracts, in which lawyers and accountants essentially act as coders. When two parties enter into a transaction together, the accountant/lawyer/coder inputs into the blockchain what the event they have all agreed on. This event will occur automatically. That might contribute to much greater efficiency.
  • But also from a financial and business strategy issue, blockchain could bring great benefits. Having a clear picture of assets and cash flows, finance has the ability to make strategic investments in shorter period of time, helping to capitalize on potential investment opportunities and evaluate important future transactions.

Take a longer view

Blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change the treasury function at corporates. For some blockchain is even going to be a game-changer for treasury. The change might not be here yet, but it is coming, and treasurers need to take the long view on it.

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Carlo de Meijer

Economist and researcher

 

treasuryXL: summer holiday reading material

| 10-08-2016 | treasuryXL |

Time flies, it is August already. And, for most people, August means holiday time and taking time to read. Have you got your summer holiday reading list sorted yet? The perfect moment to provide you with some summer holiday reading material. These are the top 5 best read articles of treasuryXL from the start. Have a great summer!

 

1 | How can Cash Management influence the Cash Conversion Cycle?

| 27-06-2016 | Olivier Werlingshoff |

credit-card-851502_960_720How can the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) be optimized? The CCC measures the time the money is tied up in the sales and the production process before it’s converted into a cash in from customers. When translated in a formula this will be the DSO + DIO – DPO (Day’s Sales Outstanding + Day’s Inventory Outstanding – Day’s Payables Outstanding). Read the full article

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2 | Business case – Funding strategy : how Fastned uses Nxchange

| 09-05-2016 | interview with Claire Tange from Fastned |

logoFastnedFastned’s growing and they’re giving investors the chance to directly buy and trade in certificates of shares via Nxchange. We’ve asked Fastned’s CFO Claire Tange to explain this type of financing. Read the full article [separator type=”” size=”small” icon=””]

3 | Treasury ABC – part I

| 08-07-2016 | Jan Doosje |

S059QDGBOGFor many people Treasury is, as they think, something that is not concerning. Because there are many items that could be mentioned and listed here, I chose to mention the items that have effect on our daily lives, even if we are not aware of the existence of the described item. I’ll call it the Treasury ABC for normal citizens. Read the full article

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4 | 8 Career Hurdles in a Transfer from Banking to Corporate Treasury

| 07-07-2016 | Pieter de Kiewit |

careerAn increasing number of bankers come to my recruitment desk wanting to make a transfer to corporate treasury. This transfer can be made successfully but there are a number of things to take into account. Below the 8 career hurdles, I hear most about, in a transfer from banking to corporate treasury. Read the full article

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5 | Foreign bank accounts, how to include them in your cash pool

| 21-06-2016 | Jan Meulendijks |

janmeulendijksSignificant balances on your foreign bank accounts which are really of better use in the country where your operation is? Include them in an automated cash pooling scheme so that all your funds are available in The Netherlands and no more unnecessary interest is paid! Read the full article

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