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As working capital increasingly becomes a top-level agenda item, businesses need to adapt.

Conversations about working capital management often go down the route of discussing payment terms extensions and how that can help improve the payables position on the balance sheet. But a different twist to that dialogue featured prominently in a recent meeting of...

For the treasurers and procurement directors who gathered at The Ritz for the latest meeting of the Working Capital Forum on 15th June, there was little doubt that a supplier finance strategy was an idea whose time has come. With a couple of exceptions, all were...

Treasury is in the driving seat. But it has to take the rest of the organisation with it. Who owns working capital? That was the question debated by participants at the latest Working Capital Forum, held on this occasion as one of the streams at Basware Connect in...

The latest Working Capital Forum saw treasury and procurement leaders from ten multinationals and two universities tackle the sometimes thorny issue of  liquidity in the supply chain, and who is really responsible for protecting it? What are a company’s...

The conversation at the April meeting of the WCF focused on how early payment discounts can be used alongside working capital objectives to improve the bottom line. How can organisations generate cash but at the same time make sure they are making best use of that...

The February meeting of the Working Capital Forum discussed how to optimise value Businesses are learning that a multifaceted strategy to the management of working capital is the optimal way to unlock value – and a multi-stakeholder approach is the best way to achieve...