In line with introducing more or less floating currency exchange rates a huge industry was born. The industry of managing these risks. Numberless banks and other provider promise every day with new products that the risk can be held under control and on top, generating a cash-profit with it. Can this be useful? What is the difference between hedging and speculation?

Working Capital is a highly efficient barometer for measuring a companies operating efficiency and effectivity. As better the conditions are, as more the corporate is able to concentrate on its core-business instead of asking banks and shareholders for more capital.

Loans are considered generally often as fidding, totally intelligigible and more over, as a simple financial agreement. But in practice quite often comprehensive questions arise which lead to sometimes serious problems because of a lack of technical knowledge and/or legal understandings.

egative Interest makes great demands on the Treasury. Not just for external investment, also and especially regarding intercompany interest yield.

Best possible results in group treasury departments depend from professional banking, but not only external, especially also internal with Inhouse Banking a lot of potentials may come up. An Inhouse Bank offers improvement opportunities for cost efficiency, process controlling, risk mitigation and tax optimization.

Most supplier, producer and wholesaler expect from the ordered product: • Cheap Price • Short Delivery Time • Product need to be in sale- and useable condition • Minimum preparation for the re-sale How do you measure the performance of your supplier that those requirements will be met? Many companies measure their supplier only with feeling and based on experience made in the past. But some companies have also objective measurement criterias. Find In the following an approach how far supplier can help you to achieve your inventory-goals and how these methods will improve your results.

Leasing became since the early 80’s of the last century increasingly the status of an attractive model to finance all kind of consuming goods and machinery. Leasing means by nature “rent” but in the context of getting goods on credit it became the naturalized meaning of “buy on credit”. This is not always the case. Important IFRS Checklist: 9 points to find out the difference.

In general, the exchange of amounts in different currencies is a zero-sum game. The reason that some participants of the foreign exchange market manage their foreign currency positions actively make it to some of them possible to operate above the zero-border. Thus, to the burden of other participants