Ethical Cash Management? A Possible Solution
Author:
Leire San José
Edition:
2th edition (2008/2009)
Keywords:
Governance / Trust
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The purpose of cash management is to ensure that companies have the cash they need at the right moment, and at minimum cost. To do this, companies use a range of measures and techniques relating to cash planning, decisions on short-term financing and investment, management of relations with financial bodies and management of financial risks. Other key aspects are monitoring and analysis of receivables and payments management, as well as corporate culture.
Decisions that affect the whole society
By its very nature, this business concept is a complex one, probably because it lies at the heart of corporate management, for its decisions directly or indirectly affect and are affected by (a) all other areas of the company, whether commercial, structural or social, and (b) other companies with which it has relations, and even society and the environment.