What do you want to know about Treasury?
| 30-10-2017 | treasuryXL |
It has always been our mission to promote Treasury as a profession and to increase the awareness of Treasury within business. Currently there are more education choices for students to study and appreciate Treasury, but we still felt there was a gap – knowledge for anyone who was genuinely interested in learning more about Treasury.
With this in mind, we decided to proactively launch a new initiative – Treasury for non-treasurers. We consider this as our call to action.
Who are these people?
These can be students; career professionals in other disciplines who are curious; people in the finance industry who are considering either a career change or specializing in the field of Treasury; anyone who just wants to understand what a treasurer does on a day-to-day basis.
What is our aim?
Having always written for the professional, we were confronted with the challenge of getting our information across to people who do not have in depth knowledge. After a lot of research and analysis we decided that the best approach would be to attempt to simply explain the workings of Treasury, without going into too many technical details.
What will be in our articles?
With our knowledge, that relies also on the invaluable input of our expert community, we are considering a framework encompassing such topics as:
- Treasury department – roles and responsibilities
- Financial products for trading – Spot FX, Forwards, Options, Futures
- Financial products for liquidity – deposits, loans, commercial paper
- Financial products for financing – private placements, bond issues, equity
- Cash flow forecasting – models and procedures
- Working Capital Management – payables, receivables, inventory
- Risk management – interest rate, FX, commodity, credit, liquidity, operational
- Fintech – Treasury Management Systems, inhouse, exchanges
- Cash concentration – physical sweeps, notional pooling, overlay structures
- Education – study, on-line courses, sources of data
- Economic and political – inflation, unemployment, leading and lagging indicators
This is a comprehensive and challenging list – but not impossible – which will, hopefully, increase people’s understanding and perception of the treasury function.
What we need?
Feedback – and plenty of it please.
These articles will not be written chronologically but, if there are certain topics that you wish to have explained then please do not hesitate to contact us. It is only with your input that we can truly create a service to meet your demands. We think we know what you would like to know, but only you can tell us!
What next?
Hopefully, when the series is a success, we can consider publishing e-books. Credit would always be given to those they have taken their time and effort to impart their knowledge and wisdom to others.
Who are you?
Please feel free to contact us and let us know more about you:
- What is your profession/vocation?
- What industry do you work in?
- What interests you about Treasury?
- Are you interested in making career choices?
- Need help for your company, but are too small to have in-house expertise?
- What do you think about the finance industry?
- What do you think about the EURO?
- How about Brexit?
So, come back regularly and watch this space!!
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
[button url=”https://www.treasuryxl.com/contact/” text=”Contact us” size=”small” type=”primary” icon=”” external=”1″]
[separator type=”” size=”” icon=””]
