The perceptions of North American chief financial officers remain solidly upbeat, according to a new survey from Deloitte. And the biggest surprises concern China.
ABB, GE, Honeywell and Siemens have already profited from the Belt and Road Initiative. CT tells you how to help your company do so too – while minimising the risks.
Automating workaday tasks costs money in the short term and saves money in the long term. Justifying the outlay to a sceptical board must be part of the treasurer’s skill set.
It’s annual report time and companies like the British pharma giant are setting out the multimillion-dollar impact business events such as Brexit could have.
Cash flow forecasting may be more art than science, but the head of Tata Steel's award-winning team tells CT how treasurers can stack the odds in their favour.
Tariffs are just one of Trump’s weapons to move manufacturing and the global supply chain back to the US. Companies such as Apple could face a potential 40% increase in production costs, Goldman Sachs estimates.
Companies in China are more confident than they’ve been for five years, according to the latest survey. But going forward, will the picture always remain this rosy?
CFO tells CT how he used a cross-currency swap to cut the effective interest rate on long-term bonds from 4.7% to 2.2%. He also discusses reducing the number of bank relationships
Increasingly, treasurers rely on internal and external systems, and large corporations have expensive, automated TMS. At its heart however is the idea that information means business.