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FX Risk Management Strategies to Protect Profits and Margins

Original date: July 21, 2010

In today's volatile global economy, foreign exchange risk management processes are being stressed to their limits. While some organizations have been forced to work twice as hard to achieve the same FX gain/loss results, others have turned their FX risk management capabilities into a competitive advantage.

By creating greater transparency to the sources of FX risk and improving the monitoring and analysis of FX exposures, multinational companies have been able to optimize their pricing while protecting margins and profits from foreign currency volatility. The key? Automated processes that ensure timely, complete and accurate FX data while supporting enterprise-wide visibility to opportunities to mitigate FX risk.

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In this session, you'll learn:

The three pillars of strategic FX exposure management
How to quantify the hidden economic risks of foreign currency volatility to your organization
How to identify holes in existing multicurrency accounting and FX calculation processes
The potential costs and benefits of FX risk management automation for your organization

Featured Speakers:

	Elizabeth St–Onge CertICM, Managing Director, Treasury Strategies, Inc, Elizabeth St–Onge is the managing director for Treasury Strategies, where she provides assistance to corporate treasuries in assessing and implementing technology to meet key corporate objectives. St-Onge also works with banks and technology providers in developing value-added products and services for corporate treasury.

	Andy Gage V.P. of Strategic Market Development, FiREapps Andy Gage joined FiREapps in 2006. He directs sales, marketing and strategic relationships– and has 20 years' experience in operations, consulting and product management.

GTNews: Foreign Exchange Exposure Management: More Control and Fewer Surprises

Original date: May 2010

Companies can lose millions off their balance sheets as a result of market movements in foreign exchange (FX) rates. The recent volatility and turmoil within the FX market has created a heightened awareness of FX risk and an increased demand for transparency around FX exposures. SunGard and FiREapps conducted a global survey of more than 250 organizations to benchmark foreign exchange exposure management practices and FX risk management results. One of the findings of the study revealed that across a broad range of industries, revenue categories, and regions, FX gains or losses had a material impact (where material impacts were defined as +/- 5% of net income) in 59% of the organizations in the study. Watch this webinar to hear the details of the global FX study, including the key challenges identified by executives and FX practitioners and hear how to overcome these challenges and institute best practices in FX management within your organization.

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Transforming FX Data into Business Intelligence to Reduce Risks and Cut Costs

Learn how Agilent Technologies' end-to-end, automated foreign exchange exposure management process delivers complete, timely and accurate FX exposure data that drives FX risk reduction and cost savings

Original Date: February 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm EST

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FX Risk Management: Achieving the Gold Standard

Learn How You Can Leverage the Strategies and Technologies that Won Google’s Treasury Department the 2009 Alexander Hamilton “Gold” Award for FX Risk Management

Join FiREapps Director of Marketing Will Stagl and Business Analyst Fikre Bizuneh in a discussion about how companies like Google, Agilent, ADC telecommunications and others have leveraged FiREapps solutions to accelerate their visions for integrated straight through processing of foreign exchange exposures from data to decision.

Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009

We’ll discuss how companies like Google, ADC Telecom and others achieved:

Complete FX exposure visibility in weeks
FX Risk reduction that led to ROI in months
Operational efficiency from streamlined, straight through processes, by connecting dozens of source data systems and downstream treasury and trade systems

Learn how you can achieve the same results in months, with minimal treasury, finance or IT resources.

To learn more about Google's Alexander Hamilton Award, click here.

Manage FX Risk with Results: A FiREapps Case Study

Learn how ADC Telecommunications used FiREapps to achieve ERP Exposure Data Visibility to Cut Costs and Reduce FX Risks in Less than 30 Days

With budget planning time approaching, learn how you can create a powerful business case for reducing FX risk & cutting costs, based on your existing data, in just 30 days

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Are you forced to look for ways to do more with less in 2010?
If you’re beginning to plan your 2010 treasury budget, you’ll want to be able to identify ways that your team can add value while reducing costs. One of the biggest opportunities in treasury to cut costs and gain efficiencies while demonstrating strategic value is by automating your foreign exchange exposure management process.

Learn How ADC Telecommunications achieved visibility to FX risks and costs in 30 days
Jason Cohen, VP and Treasurer for ADC Telecommunications will share his company’s experience using FiREapps to tackle the root causes of foreign exchange volatility to protect corporate value.

Find out how ADC was able to quickly and efficiently establish interactivity between FiREapps and their SAP ERP system to:

Improve the completeness and accuracy of foreign exchange exposure calculations
Improve timeliness and frequency of exposure monitoring
Improve transparency and control of the exposure management process

Join Jason Cohen and the FiREapps team today and learn you can cut FX costs and reduce risk within your own organization.

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Manage FX Risk with Confidence: A FiREapps Solution Demo

How to Deliver Complete FX Data on Demand to Treasury & Calculate Exposures in Minutes

A free Webinar hosted by FiREapps

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Could your treasury organization benefit from having greater confidence and visibility to your company’s foreign exchange exposure data? Do they spend too much time gathering and validating data—and not enough providing value-added risk analysis?

Get a hands-on look at how you can achieve complete, accurate FX exposure data from any ERP system or data source

Learn about the three critical factors to achieving FX cost and risk reduction:

Complete data
Timely exposure analysis
Transparent processes

Find out how you can build a business case for FX exposure management within your organization

Join us for a 30-minute Webinar to learn how treasurers and controllers can quickly and easily transform exposure data (from any business source system) into actionable intelligence to better manage foreign exchange impacts to balance sheets and cash flows.

Communicating FX Costs & Risks to CEOs, CFOs and Board Members

Learn how to provide clear, concise and timely foreign exchange cost and risk information to executives and board members–and how to build a business case for optimizing FX processes in today's volatile global economy.

Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. Pacific/2:00 Eastern
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A surging US dollar, combined with unprecedented currency volatility around the globe has resulted in three consecutive quarters of FX losses for most multinational companies.

Faced with budget cuts and lay-offs, most treasury departments are struggling to find a solution to managing the economic impact of foreign exchange to their balance sheets and cash flows.

At the same time CEOs, CFOs and Board Members are asking pointed questions about foreign exchange as they provide guidance to company stakeholders.

FiREapps CEO Wolfgang Koester and Thunderbird School of Global Management Dean John Mathis discuss how companies can get a better handle on their foreign exchange exposure management processes to clearly communicate potential costs and risks.

Learn how corporate treasurers can empower themselves to make a strong business case to streamline FX processes and optimize FX costs and risks–and how CEOs, CFOs and Board Members benefit.

Learn how Google was able to optimize its treasury operations and reduce foreign exchange (FX) costs with a combination of FiREapps and AvantGard Treasury solutions

Original Date: February 26, 2009

Google, the creator of the world’s largest internet search engine, combined two software solutions, AvantGard Treasury for improved cash management and FiREapps for managing foreign exchange exposures, to fulfill its strategic vision for an automated treasury environment that supports complete data, timely analysis and transparent treasury processes.

Prior to implementing these systems, Google was burdened by manual processes that could not provide a complete, real-time view of the data the company needed to efficiently manage cash, or effectively insulate the company from unanticipated foreign exchange-related costs. A main goal for the organization was therefore finding a combination of solutions that could streamline existing treasury processes and provide complete visibility to all foreign currency exposures, timely analysis and greater process transparency. Another requirement for Google was that the recipe of technological systems would not require significant in-house IT involvement for the implementation and upkeep.

Attend this live Webinar to learn why, at a time when every dollar matters, there is no better opportunity to leverage financial software systems that can help your company cut costs and increase efficiency.

During this live Webinar event, you will be able to gain insight on the following:

How Google identified systems to support its financial vision
What kind of business case Google made to justify an investment in automation
How the newly-implemented systems held up to unprecedented real world market conditions
How Google measures return on investment (ROI)
Google's vision for the future of treasury operations

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How to Cut Costs & Protect Corporate Value in Volatile Currency Markets

Original Date: February 18, 2009

"Foreign currency exposure has gone from being a major tailwind to a major headwind for large U.S. companies. ...negative impact of the strong greenback on financial results is likely to worsen in 2009, many companies have been saying on conference calls."
— David Bogoslaw, BusinessWeek, February 5, 2009

Last week, BusinessWeek's Investing channel writer David Bogoslaw focused his sites on a critical issue faced by multinational companies as the US dollar began to rise suddenly in value at the end of 2008. As Bogoslaw writes, companies like Kraft, Avon and Proctor & Gamble got stung by foreign exchange losses in Q4, while others like Google were able to protect themselves.

In his article, Bogoslaw cited FiREapps on-demand exposure management software as one of the reasons that Google bucked the trend. "Google's ability to dodge the currency bullet may have stemmed partly from its use of software as a service provided by FiREapps," wrote Bogoslaw, "which enables financial officers to see their company's total exposure to foreign exchange effects by pulling all data relevant to transactions involving foreign currencies out of a company's computerized ledger."

Join us for a Free Webinar Next Week on Wednesday, February 18 to find out why CFO, Fortune, the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Global Finance have all turned attention to the cost benefits of automated foreign exchange exposure management in the last 30 days.

Discover how your organization can deliver timely, complete FX data to treasury and get better visibility to its FX exposures in less than two weeks.

In this information-packed, 45 minute session, you’ll learn:

How timely foreign exchange exposure analysis can reduce volatility costs
How complete visibility to foreign currency exposure is critical to cutting costs in today's market
How treasurers need transparency and control to manage FX costs—whether or not they hedge

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ERPs & Foreign Exchange: How to Calculate and Manage FX Exposure ASAP

Original Date: December 17, 2008

Could your treasury organization benefit from spending less time and effort gathering transaction currency data and calculating an FX exposure? Could your organization benefit from better visibility into your foreign exchange exposure, without heavy dependence on Finance or IT?

Join us for a one-hour Webinar to learn how treasurers and controllers can quickly and easily transform SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards or PeopleSoft ERP system transaction currency data into actionable intelligence to better manage foreign exchange impacts to balance sheets and cash flows.

FiREapps, the leading provider of foreign exchange exposure management software, will illustrate how companies can quickly institute an automated, straight through process for managing foreign exchange exposure and go from data to decision with confidence. Participants will also learn about the challenges that most companies face managing transaction currency data within their SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft, and how to overcome them when calculating and managing foreign exchange exposures.

In this information-packed, one hour session, you’ll learn:

How to Inject Operational Efficiency into Your SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards or Peoplesoft FX Operations
How Operational Efficiency Leads to Better Data Integrity
The Economic Risks of Invalid FX Data

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ERP Systems & FX Data On Demand

How to Deliver FX Data From Oracle/JD Edwards/Peoplesoft to Treasury in Minutes Instead of Days

Original Date: October 15th, 2008

Could your treasury organization benefit from spending less time and effort gathering transaction currency data and calculating an FX exposure?

Join us for a one-hour webinar to learn how treasurers and controllers can quickly and easily transform ERP system transaction currency data into actionable intelligence to better manage foreign exchange impacts to balance sheets and cash flows.

FiREapps, the leading provider of foreign exchange exposure management software, will illustrate how companies can quickly institute an automated, straight through process for managing foreign exchange exposure and go from data to decision with confidence. Participants will also learn about the challenges that most companies face managing transaction currency data within ERP systems, and how to overcome them when calculating and managing foreign exchange exposures.

In this information-packed, one hour session, you’ll learn:

How to Inject Operational Efficiency into Your ERP FX Operations
How Operational Efficiency Leads to Better Data Integrity
Oracle and Multicurrency Accounting Under FAS 52: Hidden Issues and Compliance Risks
The Economic Risks of Invalid FX Data

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The Buck Stops Here

Briefing Executives & Board Members on FX Risk & the Rising Dollar

Presented By: John Connors, Board Member, Nike and Jobster, Former CFO, Microsoft and Wolfgang Koester, CEO, FiREapps, Member AFP Risk Newsletter Editorial Board

Original Date: September 17th, 2008

CEO's and board members are going to come to the CFO and the treasury organization looking for specific, concrete data and a specific plan of action to insulate corporate value from FX-related losses due to the rise of the dollar. As a member of the Board of Directors of Nike, Jobster, BioPassword and Certus Corporations, and as a former CFO, Connors will discuss the kind of bottom-line questions and demands for immediate action that Chairmen and CEO's will have for CFO's and treasurers as the dollar's rise rapidly transforms FX-related profits into losses.

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The Dollar Also Rises

What CFO's and Treasurers Need to Know Today About the Rising Dollar & FX-Related Economic Risks

Presented By: Wolfgang Koester, CEO, FiREapps, Member AFP Risk Newsletter Editorial Board and Corey Edens, COO, FiREapps

Original Date: September 10th, 2008

During the first two weeks of August, Koester has visited with CEO's and board members around the country who have expressed their concerns over the impact of the rising dollar and discussed their lack of awareness of the impact it will have on their organizations. learn what you can do today to better understand your company's FX exposure and how to take immediate steps to address this critical issue.

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From Data to Decision: Benefit From FiREapps FX Exposure Calculation and Management

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Original Date: August 4, 2008

For Treasurers who understand the benefit of using automated tools from Reval to follow the requirements of derivative hedging, FiREapps provides the power of automation and straight-through processing to the other end of your FX equation -- aggregating transaction currency data and calculating an FX exposure.

Join us for an information-packed Webinar to learn how streamlining the front end of your foreign exchange exposure management processes supports your compliance efforts and gets you to your ultimate goal: protecting the value of your company from foreign exchange volatility.

In this special session you'll learn:

The processes and systems that lead to FX data errors in the vast majority of multinational companies.
Why reliable FX data is fundamental to Treasury decision-making.
How automated FX exposure management can improve cash flows, financial statements, and confidence in IAS & FAS compliance.

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.

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.

Original Date: July 23, 2008

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:

The processes and systems that lead to FX data errors in the vast majority of multinational companies
Why reliable FX data is fundamental to Treasury decision-making
How better FX data can improve cash flows, financial statements, and confidence in IAS & FAS compliance
The streamlined operations that accompany automated FX data management

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Better FX Data = Better FX Decisions

Original Date: February 13, 2008

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

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FiREapps Treasury and Risk Webinar Series

Each Webinar approved for up to 1 CTP/CCM recertification credit(s) by the Association for Financial Professional.

Understanding the Hidden Impact of Foreign Exchange Uncertainty on Corporate Valuations

Original Date: November 15, 2007

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

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Implementing Robust Foreign Exchange Exposure Management Policies and Processes

Original Date: October 18, 2007

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 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

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Understanding and Managing the Foreign Exchange Lifecycle

Original Date: September 20, 2007

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

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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

Original Date: September 12, 2007

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.

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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

Original Date: August 27, 2007

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.

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FX Fear Factor: 100 Treasurers Reveal Their Top 5 Foreign Exchange Concerns (and how you can overcome them)

Original Date: July 25 , 2007

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 company's FX practices compare to those of 100 U.S. multinational companies and 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 you're 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 management and learn steps that you can take to overcome those challenges.

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Executive Briefing on Foreign Exchange Best Practices – What every CFO needs to know about Foreign Exchange

Original Date: 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.

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Learn how Paxar used FiREapps to gain control over its foreign exchange volatility in less than 30 days

Original Date: April 11, 2007

Guest Speaker: Tim Winston - Vice President and Treasurer, Paxar Corp.

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Knowing When to Bring Out The Big Guns!

Original Date: March 21, 2007

Guest Speaker: Scott Tsujita - Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasury and Investor Relations, Hypercom Corporation

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