Corporate Treasury

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This corporate finance PPT includes parameters like leveraged buyouts, Customer Financing, Vendor Financing, CFO’s Organization, Initial Developments, Treasury Functions, Innovations in Treasury.

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Impetus for a Distinct Discipline
CFO’s Organization

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Initial Developments
Treasury Function today

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Innovations in Treasury
The Challenges

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Leveraged Buyout wave
• Barbarians at the Gate – RJB Nabisco

Divergence of Book value & Market Capitalization
• Intellectual Capital - New Reporting initiatives

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Need for Corporate Governance
• Cadbury committee report - Corporate Scandals

Derivatives Disasters
• Weapons of Mass Destruction: Bankers Trust

Combined They Shape a New Discipline

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22,000 M&A deals between 1981-1989
Three drivers
1. Financial buyers 2. Hostile deals 3. Leveraged buyouts

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Represented by RJB Nabisco, popularized into
a book and a movie –Barbarians at the Gate

Financial Leverage Gains Prominence

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Advent of new theories to explain this: • Intellectual Capital • Balance Scorecard

Need to Supplement Financial Reporting

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1987, USA ? National Commission on Fraud Investigation The Treadway Commission Report
? Every Company to have an Audit Committee

1992, UK ? BCCI, Poly Peck, Coloroll plc., Maxwell scandals –The Cadbury Committee
? Audit Committee to have only independent directors

Investor Relations comes to the Forefront

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Market determined foreign exchange rates after1973 Huge fluctuations in 1980s – both interest and FX rates Use of Derivatives to manage risk
? Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Options ? Metallgesellschaft AG – $1 billion loss on oil hedging

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Complex derivatives enter the markets
? Inverse floaters, interest collars ? Disney –$48 m per annum loss on royalty hedging ? P&G -$157 m loss

Financial Risk Management comes of Age

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1980s
Chief Finance Officer

1990s
Chief Finance Officer

Finance Manager

Corporate Treasurer

Accounts Manager

Finance Controller

Legal & Secretarial

Legal Counsel

Shift from Domain to Functionality

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Alexander Hamilton Award for Excellence in Treasury
? Initiated in 1995 ? by Treasury & Risk Magazine & Association of Corporate Treasurers, USA ? Categories of Awards
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Treasury function Defined

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Alexander Hamilton Awards, 2009 categories 1. Overall Excellence 2. Best Green Strategy 3. Technology Excellence 1-4 Excellence 4. Solution of the Year 5. Cash Management 6. Liquidity Management 7. Retirement benefits Management 5-8 Cash Management 8. Working Capital Management 9. Enterprise Risk Management 10. Credit Risk Management 11. Financial Risk Management 9-11 Risk Management

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Investor Relations Deleted

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Multi-faceted function today 1. Sourcing Finance
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Cost vs. Quantum When needed vs. when available

Surplus Cash Management
• Safety vs. Liquidity vs. Return

Collection Systems
• Time lag vs. Cost

Payment Systems
• Simplify, Automate, Outsource

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Financial Risk Management
• Foreign Exchange Risk Management • Interest rate Risk management • Credit Risk Management

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Insurance
• Assets, Directors & Officers Policy, Product Liability & Professional Indemnity

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Enterprise Risk Management (increasingly seen as a separate function)
• Risk Identification, mitigation and reporting

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Transparency

• Periodic: Annual reports, Quarterly results • Event based: Price sensitive information • Fair disclosures: Individual & institutional investors
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Governance

• Investors’ ambassador in the company • Sensory nerve of the management to market moves
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Measure of Performance
• Trading in stocks • PE w.r.t industry peers

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Traditional Functions
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New Demands
Sales Aid or Customer financing
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Raising Resource Managing Surplus Managing Risk

Procurement Aid or Vendor financing Strategic Investing

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Competitive Business, Value Conscious Buyers

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Industry features for Customer Finance
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Current practices in Customer financing
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Products newly introduced –Medical equipments High unit cost products -Automobiles Recurring service revenue for product sold – Photocopying machines, Mobile phones, Competitive practice in the industry –Consumer durables
Only help no finance –Real estate, Housing Part risk underwritten – buy back of equipment, refurbishment of equipment, margin put up by seller Installment sale –Medical equipments, Consumer durables Exclusive tie-ups with financers -Automobiles Subsidiary or joint venture for financing

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Customers demand for Outcome not Input

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Industry features for Vendor finance ? Few manufacturers needing specialized parts –electronics industry in India in 1980s ? Large scale suppliers needed: Assembly line industry Automobiles ? Vendor size relatively small & unattractive to lenders increasing vendor borrowing cost ? Arbitrage opportunity in interest rates Current practices ? Committed order for higher quantity or longer period ? Higher advance component ? Providing special purpose equipment ? Financing special purpose equipment –repayment fixed for per unit procured ? Joint venture with the vendor

Vendors’ Cost is Our Cost

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Industry Features for Strategic Investing
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Intellectual Property driven, i.e. technology or

research: pharma, technology companies, bio
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Need to create an eco-system for the industry : Nascent industry or new in that geography - auto

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Facilitate creeping acquisitions: Wipro-Spectramind

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Volatile Financial Markets

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Competitive pressure & stock market expectations
? Simplify – Automate - Outsource, or ? Customize – Integrate – Professionalize ? Treasury function needs to do both

? Global linkages ? Plethora of hedging instruments ? Online information flow

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Twin Global Trends in Support functions

? Need to perform both in the short & long term

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