About one-third of companies saw their cash balances fall in the first quarter, but did that indicate investment or poor financial performance?
Many increased their short-term investments in products offered by banks compared with 12 months ago, according to the AFP.
Treasury and finance professionals say they'll deploy more of their cash this quarter — but they've said that before, and often.
All at once, it seems, corporate treasury departments are embracing the distributed-ledger technology to manage FX more efficiently, among other reasons.
But overall they remain conservative about using their cash reserves, an Association for Financial Professionals survey shows.
Investing in today's analytics tools will easily pay for itself in staff time saved and better-quality analysis, AFP study finds.
But more of them plan to dish out dollars this quarter, according to AFP's Corporate Cash Indicators.
Many companies are back to the habit of holding on tightly to their cash reserves. Is a softening in business confidence to blame?
Seventy-two percent of organizations awarded bonuses to their treasury and finance employees in 2014, at an average 18% of base salary, according to AFP.
Vast majority say the soon-forthcoming cards will reduce point-of-sale fraud.
After accumulating cash in the fourth quarter of 2014, finance execs forecast greater spending this quarter, according to AFP.
Finance execs say they are spending more on preventing cyber attacks, but almost a third indicate their companies are shouldering all the risk.
