A new survey looks at the shape of things to come for corporate treasurers. Will you be driving smaller teams with greater responsibility, or automating yourself out of existence?
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.
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.
Almost all financial decisions, from near-term liquidity to forex hedging to strategic planning, are based on forecasts. Getting it right is often a question of good habits rather than good decisions