Archived Webinars
Original Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Searching for FX Advantage at Yahoo!
Learn How Teamwork, Technology and Timely FX Exposure Analysis at Yahoo!
Led to Consistent FX Gain/Loss Results and Reduced Enterprise Risk.
During this one hour online seminar, you’ll find out how the Treasury team at Yahoo! led the charge to better insulate the company from foreign currency volatility by leveraging FiREapps, and creating a cross-functional team to approach FX exposure as an enterprise risk. Yahoo’s experiences demonstrate how companies of all sizes can learn new, cost-effective ways to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of FX exposure management, with or without using hedging strategies to mitigate risk.
After thoroughly analyzing its multi-currency accounting processes and automating the calculation and management of its foreign exchange exposure, Yahoo! has created a reliable, consistent process for managing foreign exchange exposure that relies solely on internal strategies and mechanisms to cost-effectively lower exposures.
Join Yahoo! Director of Corporate Treasury Karthik Chandran and FiREapps CFO/COO Corey Edens online to learn more about:
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The processes and systems that lead to FX data errors in the vast majority of multinational companies
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Why reliable FX data is fundamental to Treasury decision-making
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How better FX data can improve cash flows, financial statements, and confidence in IAS & FAS compliance
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The streamlined operations that accompany automated FX data management
Original date: February 13, 2008
Better FX Data = Better FX Decisions
Learn how your company’s multicurrency accounting data, systems and processes are undermining your foreign currency exposure management strategy—and steps you can take to deliver reliable data that drive better FX decisions and results.
During this one hour online seminar, we’ll go beyond the traditional focus on the Treasury department to discuss why it’s so difficult for companies to define the foreign exchange exposures that Treasury is expected to manage.
We’ll explain how people and processes introduce multicurrency accounting errors; how accounting system configuration and administrative challenges propagate those errors; and ultimately, how companies can diagnose and solve these problems before they show up on the FX gain/loss line of their financial statement.
FiReapps CFO/COO Corey Edens and Greenwich Treasury Advisors Managing Partner Jeffrey Wallace will discuss:
- The Toughest Job in Finance: Why getting FX right is so difficult
- A Window of Opportunity: Why getting it right today is more critical than ever
- The Top Gotchas: Four common sources of multicurrency accounting volatility
- Key Warning Signs: questions to ask your Controller about your FX data
- Getting it right: Steps you can take to improve the effectiveness if your FX exposure management strategy
FiREapps Treasury and Risk Webinar Series
Each Webinar approved for up to 1 CTP/CCM recertification credit(s) by the Association for Financial Professional.
November 15, 2007
11 a.m. Pacific/2:00 p.m. Eastern
Understanding the Hidden Impact of Foreign Exchange Uncertainty on Corporate Valuations
During this one hour session attendees will learn about the often hidden impacts that foreign exchange volatility and uncertainty can have on overall corporate performance and shareholder value. This session will be particularly useful for senior level treasury executives and CFOs interested in protecting and enhancing shareholder value through the effective use of best practices. Specific attention will be focused on discussing the following areas of hidden impact:
* Shareholder value
* Competitiveness
* Transaction Costs
* Operational Efficiency
* Compliance
October 18, 2007
11:00 a.m. Pacific/2:00 p.m. Eastern
Implementing Robust Foreign Exchange Exposure Management Policies and Processes
During this one hour session attendees will learn how to establish or update their currency risk management policies and processes to protect their companies from unpleasant economic and compliance surprises. This session will be particularly useful for senior level treasury executives and CFOs interested in protecting and enhancing shareholder value through effective use of best practices. Specific attention will be focused on discussing:
-- Best practices recipes for establishing and maintaining effective currency risk management
policies
-- How to identify and assess the nature and sources of foreign exchange exposure
-- How to ensure effective foreign exchange exposure management policy and process oversight
September 20, 2007
12:30 p.m. Pacific/3:30 p.m. Eastern
Understanding and Managing the Foreign Exchange Lifecycle
During this one hour session attendees will learn about the challenges and issues related to managing the entire foreign exchange lifecycle. Attendees will be provided with concrete steps on how they can begin to change their processes and techniques by transforming the art of exposure management into the science of exposure management. During this session you can expect to learn about ways to improve your ability to:
-- Manage foreign exchange volatility on the balance sheet
-- Manage foreign exchange uncertainty on future cash flows
-- Improve currency risk management policies and processes
September 12, 2007
11:00 a.m. Pacific/2:00 p.m. Eastern
Foreign Exchange Exposure Management: Focus on Forecasting and Transactions
Learn How the Latest Tools and Technologies Help You to Eliminate Uncertainty & Reduce Risk for Forecasted Cash Flows and Balance Sheet Exposures
In this one-hour Webinar, you’ll learn how to turn the art of FX exposure management from abstract art into a precise science using the latest tools and technologies available today. Whether you need to identify risks to your forecasted cash flows and protect revenues and margins from FX volatility, or reduce exposure and minimize risk to your balance sheet, we’ll show you how automated processes and institutionalized best practices can help you achieve your goals.
FiREapps CFO/COO Corey Edens and VP of Product Management John Brandt will show you how automated tools like FiREapps 4.0 ForecastFX provide a powerful new way to protect forecasted cash flows from foreign exchange uncertainty and improve the predictability of forecasted revenues and margins. Combined with FiREapps 4.0’s balance sheet exposure management capabilities, you’ll see how companies of all sizes can now cost-effectively manage their exposures and risk throughout the entire foreign exchange lifecycle.
Join us for this informative, hands-on preview of the latest technology solutions from FiREapps and find out how you can ensure data integrity, streamline processes and reduce the cost and effort required to manage foreign exchange balance sheet and forecasted revenue and margin exposures within your own organization.
August 22, 2007
11:00 a.m. Pacific/2:00 p.m. Eastern
Executive Briefing on Foreign Exchange Best Practices:
Building World Class Foreign Exchange Practices from the Ground Up!
A conversation with Fikre Bizunah, former Treasury Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
As former Treasury Manager at Alcatel-Lucent, Fikre Bizuneh understands the challenges of managing foreign exchange exposure. During this one hour Webinar, Bizuneh will discuss the experience he gained helping to establish and manage the world class foreign exchange exposure management processes at Alcatel-Lucent, as well as the trends in foreign exchange management he's observed in his new role as Senior Risk Analyst for FiREapps. Bizuneh will be joined by FiREapps CFO/COO Corey Edens to discuss the foreign exchange lifecycle and how foreign exchange exposure management impacts corporate balance sheets and future cash flows.
Join us for this highly informative discussion and learn practical tips and techniques that you can take advantage of immediately to ensure data integrity, streamline processes and reduce the cost and effort required to manage foreign exchange exposures within your own organization.
July 25 , 2007
FX Fear Factor: 100 Treasurers Reveal Their Top 5 Foreign Exchange Concerns
(and how you can overcome them)
Guest speakers:
- Corey Edens - COO & CFO, FiREapps
- Andrew Gage - VP of Sales & Marketing, FiREapps
In the latest edition of our FX Best Practices Webinar series, find out how your companys FX practices compare to those of 100 U.S. multinational companiesand how you can learn from their experiences.
This free, one-hour Webinar highlights the results of a cross-industry analysis of common challenges and concerns for corporate foreign exchange management conducted by FiREapps, the leading provider of foreign exchange risk management solutions.
If your firm is like any one of the 100 companies surveyed, your struggle to define and quantify your true currency exposure often means that youre unaware of compliance or economic risks until its too late.
Join us and get a broad perspective on how firms across industries of all sizes contend with the complexities and challenges of foreign exchange exposure managementand learn steps that you can take to overcome those challenges.
April 25, 2007
Guest speakers:
- John Connors - Former CFO, Microsoft
- James Hallemeyer - Foreign Exchange Director, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
- Bret England - Group Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer, JDA Software Group, Inc.
April 11, 2007
Guest speaker:
- Tim Winston - Vice President and Treasurer, Paxar Corp.
March 21, 2007
Knowing When to Bring Out The Big Guns!
Guest speaker:
- Scott Tsujita - Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasury and Investor Relations, Hypercom Corporation
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