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Aurora Gregory provides five best practices you can use to ensure that your AFP 2020 session proposal is conference-ready.
12/13/2019
The prospect of adopting real-time payments is alluring. However, many treasury departments are still on the fence due to several key issues.
12/13/2019
Explore the numerous treasury use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and their potential for enhancing financial operations.
11/22/2019
FP&A leadership needs to make the investment to create a business-partnering organization that is designed to succeed.
11/19/2019
Acquisition financing can be one of the most challenging aspects of treasury’s role—but it is also one of the most rewarding.
11/19/2019
Energy producers typically get paid more than 30 days after supplying electricity. Blockchain technology can change that.
11/12/2019
Life experiences provide unique opportunities for finance professionals to improve their financial analysis skills.
11/12/2019
For FP&A to interact and contribute to the company, its systems and data need to interact as well. Any new system must be successfully integrated into current processes.
11/05/2019
During Monday’s AFP 2019 FP&A Roundtable on M&A, there was no discussion of modeling economic benefits and strategic rationale. Instead, four themes came through clearly.
10/22/2019
Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts opened AFP 2019 with a powerful message of perseverance.
10/21/2019
Robotic process automation (RPA) is ideal for treasury and finance, in that it can streamline many repetitive, manual processes.
10/15/2019
Introducing a roadmap that provides a way to act upon your view of a digitally enabled finance organization, along the parameters of people, process and technology.
10/11/2019
The new FP&A guide focuses on the planning and reporting system, which is foundational to FP&A’s mission of supporting business decisions.
09/24/2019
The process for creating a rolling forecast takes practice and sufficient time to complete. By utilizing eight key steps, companies can build rolling forecasts more effectively.
09/20/2019
How should FP&A organizations measure their effectiveness, and what does an effective measurement system look like for an FP&A team or department?
09/16/2019
Check usage continues to decline for B2B transactions, falling to an all-time low of 42 percent, according to the 2019 AFP Electronic Payments Survey, underwritten by J.P. Morgan.
09/10/2019
Receivables are the lifeblood of a company. A comprehensive receivables risk assessment is incomplete without three key elements.
08/19/2019
It may be difficult for treasury to shed old, manual practices in favor of utilizing its TMS to its full potential. But doing so can result in huge benefits.
08/15/2019
AFP 2019 speaker Mike Powers of Abt Associates Inc., explains why FP&A is the lever that the CFO office has to drive change and help manage the business.
08/13/2019
Stay updated on the Federal Reserve's efforts to develop a real-time payment and settlement service, known as the FedNow℠ Service, and learn how corporate treasurers can provide input.
08/06/2019
Gain insights from Fareed Zakaria of CNN Worldwide as he discusses the political risks of today and their historical parallels in a conversation with AFP at AFP 2019.
08/05/2019
Learn about the transformation of finance departments into strategic advisors and the shift from spreadsheets to modern business planning.
07/31/2019
Evaluate the pros and cons of transitioning from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), as explained by Jennifer Earyes from Navient.
07/23/2019
Discover the common practices employed by highly effective FP&A teams to provide forward-looking analyses and reporting that drive business results.
07/23/2019
David Gold of Royal Dutch Shell discusses his organization’s decision to move high-level FP&A analyses to shared service centers.
07/16/2019
Many treasury professionals miss out on a lot of the functionality that their treasury systems offer because they tend to have a narrow focus during implementation.
07/15/2019
Learn how FP&A teams can enhance their business partnering skills and build collaborative relationships through trust and effective communication.
06/25/2019
There is a mismatch between formal education and the role of the FP&A professional. As a result, FP&A as a whole has become increasingly difficult to define.
06/25/2019
Prepare for the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) by recognizing the limited time available for corporate treasury departments to adjust.
06/11/2019
It is often the responsibility of treasury to coordinate with a third-party bank to set up a cash pool, and as a result, certain embedded tax risks can be overlooked.
06/11/2019
Access helpful tips from the FBI on discovering and reporting fraud in AFP's Payments Guide, underwritten by MUFG Union Bank.
06/10/2019
One goal of PSD2 is encouraging competition by allowing new players to enter the European Single Market. Who are these new players? What opportunities and risks do they present? How can corporates determine which one to work with? This guide will address these questions.
05/28/2019
FP&A is growing more attractive to accountants. So how can you switch from accounting to FP&A?
05/28/2019
Treasury and finance professionals earned an average 3.5 percent base salary increase in 2018, according to the 2019 AFP Compensation Survey.
05/28/2019
Learn how psychology can be applied to financial statement analysis to add value beyond traditional financial ratios.
05/16/2019
E-invoicing is not a new concept, but it’s had some trouble catching on in the United States. But that could be on the cusp of changing.
05/13/2019
Stay updated on the fallback language for the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), indicating alternative rates in case Libor becomes unusable after 2021.
04/25/2019
Being a leader is never easy, nor does it come easily. Here are 10 lessons from leadership guru Chip Colbert.
04/23/2019
PSD2 sets the foundation for open banking, driving banking changes in Europe and worldwide. Learn the benefits and implications of open banking for treasurers in this evolving regulatory landscape.
04/19/2019
Are bots really part of the FP&A team, or are they just a tool like spreadsheet or an accounting system?
04/09/2019
Connect with your FP&A peers and industry leaders in Austin March 17-19 at the AFP FP&A Forum. Register by January 15 to save $400.