The quest for visibility (TT Mar09 p26)

Achieving more with less was the theme of the conference and more than 100 delegates heard from a range of corporate and market participants about how they had turned that slogan into a reality. The cash-is-king mantra has driven treasurers to involve themselves in all aspects of business processes: centralised versus decentralised treasury policies, liquidity and asset management, supply and sales chain structures and systems development – both internally and in the wider financial community. In short, treasurers have added the function of business process managers to their growing list of responsibilities.