CIMA

Excellence In Leadership Issue 1 front cover

Welcome to the
September 2008 issue
Financial Supply Chain

How finance can fuse the links in the chain together.

The contents of this issue are listed below and a selection of articles are available for you to download in full.

Click here
to read this issue

Foreword

Charles Tilley
Chief Executive
CIMA

Vital Statistics

Key figures and findings, plus the latest sound bites

Strategic FSC

Back to basics: capital in the credit crunch is hard to find, so is a refresher course in cash management the way forward?		Audrey Besson and Richard Young CIMA

Collaborative financing - a roundtable looking at how to make the financial supply chain work effectively and how to manage the balancing act of delivering a service in the most cost-effective way without compromising service.		Nick Candler Finance Director Pret a Manger David Bateman Finance Director Paperchase Michael Hitchcock Finance Director Moss Bros Group

Risk and control – involving the treasury function in FSC: making the financial supply chain more efficient how the treasury department can help deliver new services in FSC through their partnerships with the banks cash management – why there are no panaceas for the problems of providing reliable cash forecasting		Naresh Aggerwal Treasury Manager Fujitsu Services

Clear thinking: why clarity is an essential factor when it comes to financial supply chain reporting		Charles Tilley chief executive CIMA

Spotlight on strategy: why financial companies need to focus on working capital to survive the economic crisis		David Blackwood finance director Yule Catto

Moving financial supply chain onto the boardroom agenda: the finance director’s role in the supply chain the relationship between shareholder value and the supply chain keeping and driving financial supply chain on the corporate agenda.		Professor Richard Wilding Professor and Chair, Supply Chain Risk Management Cranfield School of Management

Finance and risk management

Unlocking the value in financial supply chain management: supply chain finance as the next frontier in competitive advantage optimising financial flows to enhance the physical chain freeing up working capital by making payments earlier and quicker.		Douglas Kent Member of the European Leadership Team Supply Chain Council

Why financial risk assessment should be systematically integrated into financial supply chain decision-making		Axel-Peter Ohse Head of Trade Finance, Global Transactional Banking Deutsche Bank

Compliance and regulation

Considering Authorised Economic Operators (AEO) in the short-term and predicting future impact: increasing security in the global financial supply chain assessing the early signs of AEO long-term advantages from AEO certification.		Susanne Aigner Head of Supply Chain Security European Commission

Special supplement

Financial Supply Chain – The Ripple Effect sponsored by Abbey

Responsible supply chain

Sustainability and climate change Green, responsible and profitable: a practical approach to addressing the sustainability agenda in supply chain decision making, including: balancing the commercial needs of the business with the wider sustainability agenda looking beyond current headline issues to consider the longer term sustainability of the business.		Keith Evans Principal Consultant, Operations Arup and Committee Member for the Sustainable Distribution Forum

Managing the risk of climate change, including: realising the impact of climate on the survival of your business effective carbon management as effective risk management embracing the opportunities within the risk.		Nigel Topping Head of Supply Chain Carbon Disclosure Project

Also in this edition

Corporate finance Managing M&A challenges in a downturn		Steve Lucas Finance Director National Grid

Performance management/business intelligence The path to better performance: while key business issues such as foreign exchange or interests rates are often addressed in corporate hedging programs, energy costs are commonly buried in occupancy costs. Energy costs can be identified, managed and in most cases, hedged.		Lauralee Martin Global COO, CFO, and Director Jones Lang LaSalle

Responsible business The challenge of driving financial performance whilst responding to the sustainability agenda.		Jon Williams Former Head of Group Sustainable Development, Group Corporate Sustainability HSBC Holdings

Human capital Talent management and director transition programmes – the importance of training entrepreneurial management skills back into executives after a career of having their entrepreneurial nature number-crunched out of them.		Akber Pandor Director of Learning and Development KPMG

Change management What does virtual business mean for the CFO and the finance function		Steve Seymour Ashridge

Outsourcing/BPO Why BPO partnerships are normally opportunistic and rarely strategic		Philip J Fersht Research Director, BPO, Offshoring and IT Services, Enterprise Strategies Group AMR Research Inc

All editorial contributors are subject to change

Company Insights

Concur ReadSoft Ltd The Royal Bank of Scotland Strategic Thought Group Cognos Four Business Solutions 2GC ICit Business Intelligence Simpson Associates IDRH Gartner Millennium EDF Energy Paris and Parks Hewitson Walker Attract HR TNT


Issues

								2010


									September	June	March
2009				2008					2007


December	September	June	March	December	September	June	March	January	September	June	March