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.
Leasing arrangements have long been an off-balance-sheet bugbear for corporate treasurers. IFRS 16 – which comes into force in 2019 – is intended to change all that.
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.
After the city's securities watchdog steps in to stop an initial coin offering, corporates seeking to tap this funding source face a regulatory minefield. CT tries to map a way through.
The new accounting standard IFRS9 was supposed to make life easy, but there are challenges ahead. Two months in, CT lists some of its more unpleasant surprises