Usually a day of rest or parades for the workers of the rest of the world, Tuesday 1 May this year will mean a trip to the Metropole in Birmingham for the UK Treasurers conference for many of us in the Association’s secretariat.
This is not just a shameless plug for the conference (being organised jointly by the ACT and Eurofinance), but a heartfelt plea for members and readers to come to the ACT stand and let us know what you really think of the magazine, and perhaps even offer to write. The bankers and consultants should be queueing up to help but I am really hoping for more corporate treasurers to come forward and volunteer.
It is not that scary to contribute – we are always happy to assist and can respond to mayday calls from authors with writer’s block within minutes. If it is too much to write 1600 words, we may be able send out someone to interview you. And in all cases, we always let the author have a final proof to iron out any errors or introduce late changes.
This month’s Spotlight on Cash Management is, I humbly submit, close to perfect: we have contributions from four corporates, representing Laporte, Aon, Marconi and Diageo, and we have covered several banks in just the one article, written on the basis of responses to questions we posed on euro cash pooling. The Bank of England has let us reproduce part of its report on ‘Practical Issues arising from the euro’, which has information of importance to all.
One of the three articles in our international section serves up McDonald’s cash management processes in Malaysia, a country whose geography sets some special problems.
Cash management experts and learners alike may also want to find out more about e-delivery of the ACT’s cash management certificate, which is outlined on page 24. Those of you with more questions and ideas can put them to the education team at the UKT conference.
We all look forward to seeing you in Birmingham.