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All The World’s A Stage For (Prudent) FX Risk Management

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Thousands of finance teams across the United States engage in annual forecasting exercises, using historical numbers, forward contract prices and consensus forecasts to establish budget rates. Which opportunities can be embraced through prudent FX risk management, and how? They get it wrong, though, year after year.

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Beyond the Basics: 7 Key Focus Areas for New CFOs

CFO Talks

They play a crucial role in strategic planning, risk management, and driving innovation, extending their influence far beyond the finance department. Risk Management: Given the CFO’s role in identifying and mitigating risks, tasks related to safeguarding the company’s assets and financial health are critical.

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Navan’s Modern Approach to Duty of Care

CFO Leadership

Maintaining that duty of care becomes more challenging as organizations expand since the number of employees traveling on the company’s behalf increases. With increased risk comes the need for increased duty of care. A realistic duty of care policy goes hand-in-hand with effective travel risk management. Be personal.

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Risks, challenges CFOs expect in 2024

Future CFO

We also adopted GRI 2021 standards, and TCFD recommendations in terms of governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets, in our recently released 2023 Sustainability Report, where we set out our ESG targets, as well as climate risks and opportunities.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 9-10)

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Companies eye money market funds for cash management

Future CFO

Private fund firms are now putting idle cash to work in money market funds (MMFs), which has the dual benefit of earning a yield from cash holdings in addition to mitigating concentration risk. The second benefit is improved risk management.

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Five Focal Points for Future-Ready CFOs

CFO Leadership

While public companies are legally obligated (or are soon expected to be obligated) to meet a growing number of ESG-related regulatory requirements around the world, many of these compliance burdens – and reporting requirements, in particular – also extend to private companies and smaller organizations that conduct business with public companies.