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A Year in Risk Management

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June 2009 5 Min Read

A Practical Approach to Risk Management at Microsoft

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June 2009 6 Min Read

When is a Derivative Not a Derivative?

When is a Derivative Not a Derivative? by Mark Kirkland, Vice President Treasury, Bombardier Transportation. The answer is: of course, when it’s an embedded derivative (at least sometimes)! I am, of course, talking about foreign currency contracts with suppliers and...

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June 2009 3 Min Read

Ensuring Compliance in Hedge Accounting at RSA

Ensuring Compliance in Hedge Accounting at RSA by Daniel Ferguson, Treasury Manager, Group Corporate Centre, RSA RSA Group has a proud heritage dating back almost 300 years. The current company structure was created in 1996, following the merger of two of the largest...

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June 2009 12 Min Read

From US GAAP to IFRS – Treasurers Beware

From US GAAP to IFRS – Treasurers Beware by Sebastian di Paola, Partner and Michiel Mannaerts, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers SA, Switzerland Introduction As most readers will be aware, the accounting rules for financial instruments under IFRS originated from...

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June 2009 4 Min Read

Debt Simplification and Increased Risk Complexity at Mitsubishi Corporation Finance PLC

Debt Simplification and Increased Risk Complexity at Mitsubishi Corporation Finance PLC by Alnoor Visram, General Manager – Finance and Operations, Mitsubishi Corporation Finance PLC Treasury Organisation Founded in 1950, Mitsubishi Corporation has become...

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April 2009 3 Min Read

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Hedge Accounting in accordance with IAS 39: Driving force or impediment to economically meaningful risk management? Results of a PricewaterhouseCoopers study in collaboration with the Justus-Liebig-University at Giessen The regulations governing the accounting of...

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April 2009 28 Min Read

Doing Business in Germany

Doing Business in Germany by Prof. Dr. Dieter Endres, Service Line Leader Tax & Andrew Miles Tax Editorial Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Germany For decades, Germany has been a country with a highly developed, high-cost, economy. The opportunities – but...

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November 2008 5 Min Read

Managing Settlement Risk at National Express

Managing Settlement Risk at National Express by Mike Dixon, Assistant Group Treasurer, National Express plc National Express is one of the world’s leading international public transport groups, with an annual turnover of £2.6 billion. Over one billion...

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July 2008 7 Min Read

The South African Treasurer within the Contemporary Corporate Governance Framework

­The South African Treasurer within the Contemporary Corporate Governance Framework by Vaughan E Firman, Finance Director – South African Operations, Netcare Ltd Jean Renoir’s classic film, ‘La Règle du jeu’ (‘The Rules of the...

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April 2008 10 Min Read

Lessons in Securitisation from the Sub-prime Crisis

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April 2008 4 Min Read

Journey into the Unknown – Internal auditing in the treasury function

Journey into the Unknown – Internal auditing in the treasury function by Thomas Schräder, Partner, and Birger Wriedt, Senior Consultant, at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf The sub-prime market has clearly shown that treasury risks were not adequately...

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