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Cash-Flow Forecasting remains KING

Simply Treasury

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. So, what are the keys to good forecasting?

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Navigating uncertainty: Manage the impact of inflation

Future CFO

This notion is reinforced by the World Uncertainty Index (see Figure 1 below), which measures the level of global uncertainty across a variety of economic, social, and political factors. In today's world, one thing is certain – uncertainty. Source: worlduncertaintyindex.com Figure 1: World Uncertainty Index Context setting: Why inflation?

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Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)!

Musings on Markets

In the years since, disclosure requirements have changed and expanded, with companies in foreign markets creating their own rules in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), with many commonalities and a few differences from GAAP. Of course, but investors know that already and can make their own corrections to these forecasts.

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Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma

Musings on Markets

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

For instance, I have always computed the present value of lease commitments in future years and treated that value as debt, a practice that IFRS and GAAP have adopted in 2019, but that computation requires explicit disclosures of lease commitments in future years.