2006 — Sponsors
Treasury & Risk's Governance and Risk—Balancing Risk and Reward — September 20, 2006
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PwC Advisory provides business advice to help companies translate strategy into action. Our industry-focused professionals have skills in key areas that drive business performance -- risk management, finance, operations, compliance, technology, change management, internal audit and investigations. For more information, see
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ACL Services Ltd.
ACL Services Ltd. (www.acl.com) is the leading global provider of Business Assurance Analytics to financial executives, compliance professionals and auditors. Combining market-leading data analytics software and professional services expertise, ACL solutions give organizations confidence in the accuracy and integrity of their transactional data and the effectiveness of the internal controls underlying increasingly complex business operations.
ACL technology solutions are scalable from individual end users and departmental teams to enterprise solutions for monitoring controls in core business processes such as the payables cycle, payroll, the order-to-cash cycle, and purchasing card programs. ACL Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) applications support sustainable regulatory compliance, ongoing financial and operational integrity, and bottom-line improvements, through independent, continuous testing and monitoring of transactions for fraud, exceptions, control weaknesses and deficiencies.
Since 1987, ACL's proven technology has enabled organizations to reduce risk, detect fraud, and minimize losses to enhance profitability in addition to supporting regulatory requirements. ACL delivers its technology solutions in more than 130 countries through a global network of ACL offices and channel partners. Our customers include 70 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and nearly two-thirds of the Global 500 as well as national, state, and local governments and the Big Four public accounting firms.
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IBS America, Inc.
IBS develops and delivers integrated compliance software solutions that help organizations achieve sustained regulatory compliance. IBS's highly configurable compliance framework enables organizations to readily adapt to the constantly changing regulatory landscape and to treat compliance as an ongoing process and not as a one-time event. With more than a decade of experience at over 2,000 customer sites, IBS has helped leading organizations around the world and across a wide range of industries achieve the full benefits of compliance including reduced cost and risk, increased customer satisfaction, competitiveness and profitability. IBS is fully certified to ISO 9001-from development through support.
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The Institute of Management Accountants
With a worldwide network of nearly 65,000 professionals, IMA is the world's leading organization dedicated to empowering accounting and finance professionals to drive business performance. IMA provides a dynamic forum for professionals to advance their careers through Certified Management Accountant (CMA) certification, research, professional education, networking, and advocacy of the highest ethical and professional standards. For more information about IMA, please visit
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InStream Financial™
InStream Financial is providing supply chains worldwide with more effective working capital solutions.
Solutions
InStream Financial's unique services are based on our people, processes and technology. At the core of our business is our client relations team. InStream Financial people are passionate about finding the right working capital solution for every client.
The key to providing flexible working capital solutions is our technology. InStream Financial’s proprietary retrieval software automatically confirms receivables data with the buyer system, eliminating the need to confirm supplier-provided data manually, as is the case with factoring. This system cuts enormous time and expense from the process.
The InStream Financial EarlyPay Web interface allows suppliers—the sellers of receivables—to select and submit any or all receivables for sale at any one time, from any place. The EarlyPay Web interface gives suppliers and their banks tremendous flexibility in the timing and scale of their cash flow management.
Key Relationships
InStream Financial is backed by some of the world's largest commercial lenders. Our strong, diverse funding base means lower cost, lower risk and access to billions in funding capacity to support our programs. Today, InStream Financial provides its value to suppliers of large companies in the heavy manufacturing, automotive, retail, electronics, and appliances sectors. We are well positioned in the United States, with emerging opportunities taking shape internationally in Asia and Europe.
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OCEG
The Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) provides critical tools to help companies achieve peak performance in an increasingly regulated business world. Governance, risk, compliance and ethics matter more than ever. OCEG’s non-profit status establishes an independent advocate for businesses pursuing higher ground and breakout performance, no matter where they do business.
The OCEG Framework is a comprehensive, best practice model for governance, risk management, compliance and ethics programs. It documents legal requirements, standards and PRINCIPLES from a variety of sources and provides PRACTICES that help an organization address these requirements. OCEG provides: Guidelines and Standards, Community of Practice, and Evaluation Criteria & Benchmarks
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Thomson Financial
Thomson Financial is revolutionizing the way treasury professionals approach their workflow by providing the next generation of treasury solutions that combine key market data and treasury functionality.
By leveraging Thomson's institutional business, the ability to take advantage of straight-through processing opportunities with Thomson Tradeweb and other portals has never been easier. Bank identification data and securities information provide additional value while shortening the implementation cycle. Combining user-focused cash and risk management systems with expert consulting and support, our solutions make treasury management easier than it's ever been. Let Us Put Our Knowledge & Skills to Work for You.