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Tax Reform Not Enough To Convince Corporates To Spend, AFP Finds

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” However, the latest analysis from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) suggests businesses are reluctant to let go of that cash. The AFP’s newest Corporate Cash Indicators report , released this week, found trade dispute concerns to be among the largest factors hampering U.S.

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Corporate America Hinges On Presidential Election

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Small businesses are anxious, and there is evidence that large corporates’ cash management and investment strategies are also being shaped by political uncertainty. Small business employment, cash reserves and FinTech investment plans are all being shaped by this year’s presidential election. .’s

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Treasurers Understand — But Aren’t Living Up To — Rising CFO Expectations

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Separate analysis from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), also released last year, further emphasized the shifting role of treasury, with 80 percent of treasurers surveyed agreeing that the position is playing a more strategic role than it did three years ago — and will continue to do so moving forward.

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Treasury Is Becoming More Strategic — And Treasurers Know It

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New research from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) released Monday (May 22) found 80 percent of corporate treasurers agree the role has become more strategic in the last three years. The same amount of survey respondents also said the role of the treasury department will continue to devolve and become even more strategic.

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Tracking Treasurers’ Progress In Handling Greater Corporate Responsibilities

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In their Strategic Role of Treasury Survey , the AFP and Marsh & McLennan identified the forces pressing companies to shift the treasury department into a more strategic position. Capital allocation, financial risk management, and treasury and payment technologies are also key areas of focus, researchers found.

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Amid Market Changes, Treasurers Lean On Their Banks

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New research finds that nearly all corporate treasurers agree that their relationship with financial institutions is a key factor in determining which bank to work with and where to invest short-term cash. The findings were detailed in the latest 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey , underwritten by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

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Accountants Find Their Place In SMB FinTech Disruption

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“Most businesses and accountants still rely on antiquated, paper-based methods to manage some stages of their process,” he said in an emailed interview with PYMNTS, pointing to the continuing popularity of checks and wire. About 44 percent of payments received are in the form of a paper check too, the report noted.