Call for Proposals

THE WINDOW IS NOW CLOSED FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

 

Submissions will be accepted from November 26, 2012 through January 18, 2013. Proposal guidelines can be found here.

General subject areas to consider when submitting a proposal include:

The following are hot topics that corporate practitioners are discussing. This list is meant to serve only as potential idea and concept generators in terms of educational session proposals – this is not an exhaustive list and sessions on any topics of interest to the corporate treasury and finance practitioner are welcome.

Risk Management

• Counterparty risk (Investments, Banking, Supply Chain, Vendors)
• Financial Risk (Interest Rate, FX, Commodities)
• How are CPs managing risks?
• Disaster recovery (business continuity) – changing environment and frequency of risks
• Political risk
• Enterprise Risk Mgmt.
• Liquidity risk
• Internal Procedural risk (de-risking financial procedures and processes)
• Cyber risk

• Negotiation skills
• Attracting/developing/retaining talent
• Resume building
• Communications skills
• Cross functional leadership
• Presenting to the board
• Career pathing
• Social media

• Long term funding
• Capital structure
• M&A
• Investments (non-liquidity)
• Investor relations
• Credit

• Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Analysis, Reporting
• Metrics (KPI’s, other)
• Dashboards
• Business Intelligence
• Benchmarking
• Communicating to non-Financial entities

• Global treasury structures
• Global Cash Visibility and accessibility
• SWIFT
• Governance
• China
• Other Emerging Markets (Non-BRIC’s)
• Latin America
• Bank Counterparties (globally)
• Global Regulations/ Basel III
• Economic Outlook

• Global and Cross-Border Payments – Challenges and Successes
• Payments Fraud – Cyber fraud, new approaches to traditional payments fraud schemes
• Mobile Payments – Mobile Acceptance, Access and Assurance (privacy/security)
• Alternative Networks/Emerging Payments – Innovation, including solving needs missed by Banks
• Payments Technology – e.g. Business Commerce Portals, SWIFT services, B2B Directory
• Payments and Remittances – Including challenges and successes in achieving 100% STP for A/P and A/R
• Healthcare Payments – Issues and Impacts on Treasury, A/P and A/R
• Payment Cards – Virtual/Ghost Cards, Payroll & other Employee Benefit Cards, Card Acceptance/Interchange issues

• Funding Methods
• Defined Contribution Plans – Plan design, asset allocation structure, costs, trends
• Defined Benefit Plans – Management, volatility, investments
• HSAs
• Investments
• Fiduciary Issues
• Legislative and Regulatory Impacts - ERISA

• Cash forecasting – liquidity management and cash positioning
• Working capital management- process improvements and lessons learned
• Investment policy management and short term investment strategies
• eBAM- bank account management process to electronic capabilities
• Bank fee management- tips and success stories
• Treasury technology- innovative solutions and achieving better automation
• Treasury policies and procedures including foreign bank account reporting
• Bank relationship mgmt- structuring and diversification relationships including conducting RFP’s
• M&A within treasury operations
• Benchmarking, dashboards and metrics

Share your thought leadership with over 4,000 corporate treasury and finance professionals who attend the AFP annual conference—apply now to lead an educational session or workshop at the 2013 Association for Financial Professionals Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV, October 27-30.

Submit your proposal here!