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The New Cash Managers

With their companies stung by the credit crunch, finance chiefs are buying software to seize control of their cash and gain leverage with their lenders.

November 23, 2009

Driven by the downturn, CFOs and treasurers are increasingly switching their companies' financial yardsticks from earnings to cash. As a result, they're tracking the flow of cash into and out of every nook and cranny of their companies' operations. And the cash-management buzzword of the day is "visibility." Read more...

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