5th Corporate Treasury in Russia and CIS 2010

Reaching the Cost and Operations Efficiency in the Group of Companies

During the financial crisis every company had to face liquidity and cash management challenges, debt restructuring issues that influenced its operations and decreased investment and development potential. Now when the market shows the trend to recover many specialists admit they still have the issues of liquidity management as credit money are not easily accessible. So they are operating in the regime of economy and limited resources.

The majority of companies that use cash flow forecasting are dissatisfied with their systems and results, thus they are now searching for new approaches to be taken depending on purpose and profile of company. The relationship between forecasting, liquidity and working capital is a challenge as forecasting can not be considered in isolation, but at the centre of the drive to maximise shareholder value.

All the issues and challenges mentioned above are event more intense in the holding companies or groups of companies as in order to minimise costs they need to synchronise the operations in all the affiliates and in order to attract investment they need to show the clear and transparent structure of finance management. As the majority of companies in Russia and CIS are groups or holdings this timely marcus evans conference will be a perfect chance for them to discover new approaches to treasury centralisation as well as modern trends in managing liquidity. It is the right time to gather and benchmark the strategies focusing on corporate needs and learn from the most sophisticated multi-national companies.