Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from October 1992

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from October 1992

Payables efficiency measurements send processing to banks. (Trends)
October 1, 1992... Outsourcing accounts payable to banks, a wallflower for years as a float-enhancing technique, is suddenly the belle of the ball as the key to treasury downsizing. A growing number of treasury managers are using it or considering it to improve...

Passive investing bounces back with mid-cap, style funds. (Trends)
October 1, 1992... Index investing lagged in 1990, but new, improved index investing is winning back pension customers. This low-overhead practice of mimicking an index has been stimulated by the growth of available indexes, including some that are quite broad...

Retrofitting the treasury career. (Cover Story)
October 1, 1992... If corporate treasuries are being rebuilt to fit changing circumstances, so are treasury careers. While no actual person could serve as the model or typical treasury manager, the career of Michael J. Flagg and his reflections upon it are...

Better mousetrap: re-engineered positive payment offers device for catching disbursement pests.
October 1, 1992... Positive pay--until recently regarded largely as a pricey way to combat check fraud--can be re-engineered so it becomes a better mousetrap for capturing disbursement efficiencies. The drive for a leaner, more competitive corporate America is...

Financial statement analysis for perilous times.
October 1, 1992... On Feb. 26. 1992, both McCrory Corp. and Barry's Jewelers filed for bankruptcy. Exposures to the failed retailers by individual trade creditors ran as high as $1.2 million. To make matters worse, these were not isolated events. Less than two...

Ginger seeks Fred: make sure your RFPs bring you the right partner. (requests for proposal)
October 1, 1992... One out of three corporate treasuries recently has re-bid a significant portion of its cash management business. Are treasury managers doing it in the most efficient way? Economic pressures and banking changes are forcing corporations to look...

Gain yardage with mobile blockers: range forward currency hedge.
October 1, 1992... Most international treasurers understand the traditional forward currency contract. The user eliminates all risk of exchange losses and all opportunities for exchange gains. The range forward hedge offers similar protection without completely...

Mobilize cash automatically.
October 1, 1992... Companies that take in money at many geographically dispersed points face particular problems in mobilizing their cash--typically in getting it from cash register to concentration account. Large numbers of depository accounts must be used and...

Treasur-ring. (corporate treasury managers answer questions from peers)
October 1, 1992... Real answers to real questions as treasury pros discuss how new withholding rules will affect lump-sum distributions and how small players can hedge FX exposures. The following discussions are a result of Treasur-Ring, a telephone consultation...

Low yields send jittery investors out the haunted yield curve. (Basis Points) (Column)
October 1, 1992... I enjoy meeting John for lunch, even though our schedules permit it only about once every two years. After we were seated in one of San Francisco's newest "in" restaurants, one with an all-fish menu, I asked, "What is Matt planning to be for...

Accounting dart thrown at banks could hit corporations. (Washington Watch) (Column)
October 1, 1992... The reviews are in, and the Securities and Exchange Commission got a resounding thumbs down. Banking regulators and treasury managers lambasted an emerging accounting standard, for which the SEC is providing the primary muscle, that would...

Weak demand forces private market lenders to cut rates, fees. (Capital Ideas) (Column)
October 1, 1992... Strong borrowers looking to sell debt will find a seller's market. Healthy public equity and bond markets, which, until recently, attracted a crowd of corporate issuers, have caused available funds to build up in the private placement market....

Kicking the tires: make sure your treasury system is road-worthy. (Treasury Technology) (Column)
October 1, 1992... As previous columns have noted, treasury managers have found ways to develop their personal computers (PCs) into effective treasury systems. Many of these PC systems are based on older treasury workstations. A workstation, whether vendor...