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We invite you to view the following two roundtables:

Roundtable 1: Business Forecasting: Eyes Wide Shut

In these volatile times, it is even more essential to try to see what lies ahead. It is also so much more difficult – and this creates huge risks for every organisation.
As anxious as we all are to make performance forecasts and to prepare plans around those forecasts, the truth is that the world is in many cases changing more quickly than we can adapt. Somehow, we need to manage these rapidly emerging risks facing us.
How is business supposed to rise to this challenge? How can we put in place sensible plans when they can be so easily overtaken by events?
Our panel of finance directors and other experts discuss the issues about forecasting and risk management in a volatile environment, scenario testing and ideas to make your business as responsive as possible.

Speakers

Christina Unsworth, FD, Grohe UK
Nick Jarman, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tony Powell, Deputy Chairman, ICAEW Faculty of Finance & Management
Stephen Brook, Manager, IBM Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management

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Roundtable 2: Why cash is the LAST thing you have to worry about

Cash is King, and a lack of cashflow will certainly cause more corporate damage and casualties than anything else over the coming year.
But good management of your operating liquidity relies on knowing what your sales forecast is, and then aligning your purchases and manufacturing volumes and keeping on top of your costs.
It is only by having accurate forward visibility of demand, production capacity and operating costs that businesses can optimise and therefore stop excess inventories from piling up and working capital crushing the balance sheet.
And so that is why cash is the last thing you need to worry about.
Learn more about how an integrated approach to performance management can help improve your working capital position. Listen to leading experts and finance directors discuss the issues at this Financial Director roundtable, in association with IBM.

Speakers

Dr. Fritz Roemer, Senior Director, The Hackett Group
Neil Morling, Group Finance Director, EC Harris LLP
Daryl H. Scales, UK/Ireland Finance Director, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Stephen Brook, Manager, IBM Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management

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