Accurate cash-flow forecasting still provides a headache for corporate treasurers and is prompting a drive to non-traditional short-term investments such as money market funds, according to a survey conducted by BDRC for ABN AMRO. Over four-fifths of respondents to the survey said cash-flows could be reasonably well-predicted over a time period as short as two-to-three days, but the predictions start to lose accuracy as the time period is extended. The causal factors include account receivables, payment timing and non-centralised cash management.
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