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Treasurers Wasting Thousands Of Hours On Spreadsheet Cash Management

PYMNTS

Using Excels spreadsheets to analyze daily global cash positions is the largest time-waster, analysts found, noting that this process alone wastes 1,296 hours a year. Treasury-related accounting tasks, payment fund transfers and cash flow forecasting are also top time-wasters for treasurers relying on spreadsheets.

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Corporate Finance’s Interest In AI Doesn’t Lead To Adoption: Oracle

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Corporate treasurers are exploring AI for their own cash management and forecasting needs, while AI is also being explored among both traditional and alternative finance players for risk mitigation and underwriting purposes. What’s Holding Adoption Back.

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Effective ways finance can navigate digital transformation post-pandemic

Future CFO

FutureCFO: What’d be the challenges facing the finance function and the CFO post-pandemic? We saw an increase in demand for SaaS from CFOs, treasurers who needed to be able to connect remotely to outsourced and managed services. EKO: Moving cash management solution to a liquidity control provider is a game changer.

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Payroll Considers Its Cash Flow Influence

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Automatically looping information across various financial platforms — including accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and expenses — is critical to achieving a real-time view of cash positions and developing more accurate forecasts.

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Robotics Process Automation Rakes In The VC Cash

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RPA is igniting chatter in the corporate finance community as professionals explore next-level analytics and automation functionality to enhance processes like accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow management and more. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the more than $912 million raised by B2B FinTech firms this week.

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Navigating treasury trends in 2024: challenges, strategies, and the role of technology

Future CFO

The year 2024 brings a landscape of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for corporate treasurers. From the ongoing global conflicts to the lingering effects of high inflation, corporate finance professionals are gearing up to navigate an environment marked by volatility and uncertainty.

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Pandemic Wake-Up Call Drives Integrated B2B Platforms

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Corporate finance teams were not simply tasked with finding ways to continue operations in a remote work environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. There were cases where some of these finance teams could not even understand what their cash visibility looked like.”. The Biggest Pain Points, Revealed.

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