They provide case studies for the key areas within the ACT Competency Framework and provide background information and practical examples.
Remember to record listening to podcasts on your CPD record.
Any adviser to C-level management, or the C-suite as it’s known, is the intermediary between the technical detail – whether it’s the law or treasury for corporate treasurers – and so has to stay relevant to stay in the room.
This can easily create conflicts for the adviser: how do you say no to the C-suite, to your boss? And how do you balance the importance of raising an issue that needs to be addressed without unnecessarily setting hares running?
Darren Heath is joined by Amanda Bradley, FCT, in this podcast which looks at dealing with conflicts and disagreements at work. Amanda’s an Executive Coach at Liberty EQ and she’s the leadership and communication tutor who provides tuition at the Advanced Diploma residential school.
Caroline Stockmann, Chief Executive of the ACT, draws on personal learnings from a full and varied career to provide a series of podcasts on leadership, communication and strategic influencing. By developing our non-technical skills, we can differentiate ourselves from others more effectively, and increase our likelihood of progressing professionally.
You will find a new podcast posted here every Friday throughout 2020. Access the podcasts here.
The strategic insight podcasts complement other ACT resources available for members – including the career hub, mentoring scheme, CPD podcasts and blogs as well as articles in The Treasurer. Do take a look at these to support your business and behavioural skills development, and remember to record this in your CPD record.
This podcast reflects on the relationship between the banker and the treasurer. Depending on which side of the table you sit, you will hear useful tips to help enhance your relationship with either your banker or your treasurer. Our highly regarded panel also reflect on their own journeys and careers, how they achieved what they did and will provide you with some insight on how to excel in your career.
Contributors: David Brook, Managing Director, Corporate Coverage, Commercial Banking, Global Liquidity and Cash Management at HSBC and Joanna Bonnett, Group Treasurer at PageGroup plc. Produced by JurisProductions.
This two-part podcast series looks at FX. The first podcast acts as a refresher and provides an introduction on the principles of FX risk management. The second looks at the Global FX Code and how it works in practice.
Contributors: Frances Hinden, Vice President, Treasury Operations at Shell, and Sarah Boyce, ACT’s Associate Director of Policy & Technical. Both Frances and Sarah sit on the Bank of England FXJSC which was heavily involved in developing the Global FX Code.
This podcast provides information to help treasurers thinking of issuing their first ESG bond. It looks at ESG from the perspective of the investment community and the key role that independent assessors play. We ask Carbon Trust to provide an update on the wider market and the role of independent assessors, and Insight Investments to share their view on what they’re looking when they invest.
Contributors: Joshua Kendall, Senior ESG Analyst at global asset manager Insight Investment, Nick Harris, Senior Manager - Green Finance at The Carbon Trust - an agency advising businesses on their sustainable projects and Naresh Aggarwal, ACT’s Associate Director, Policy & Technical.
CPD podcast: ESG from the perspective of the investment community
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This podcast provides a framework for producing treasury policies and complements the ACT's Briefing Note: Guidance for producing treasury policies - a treasurer's checklist. A treasury policy document contains the treasury policies along with the key factors supporting the policy such as the description of the risks, assessment of risk policy objectives, authorization limits and key controls. This podcast sets out one approach to producing treasury policies based on current practice in risk management.
Contributors: Gurdip Dhami who is an Associate member of the ACT and has worked in treasury related roles for over 20 years including at JP Morgan, Standard Chartered Bank and Cazenove and Michelle Price, who has worked as a treasury consultant and as ACT’s Associate Director, Policy & Technical.
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This two-part podcast, part of a series of podcasts for our Advanced Diploma content, looks at what it takes to be a successful strategic treasurer. We hear the journeys of three experienced treasurers - where they came from, the challenges that they have faced, their highs and their lows, and what it takes to be successful.
Contributors: Jono Slade, Group Treasurer at Astra Zeneca and former president of the ACT; Alexandra Lewis, Group Treasurer at National Grid and Karlien Porré, Treasury Advisor at Deloitte.
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This podcast, part of a series of podcasts for our Advanced Diploma content, looks into the growing priority around environmental concerns in corporate culture and attempts to shed some light on the topic of green finance.
Contributors: Jessica Fries, Executive Chair of A4S, the Prince of Wales’ Accounting For Sustainability Project and Jane Pilcher, Group Treasurer at Anglian Water Group - the first European utility company to issue a sterling green bond.
This podcast looks at the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and in particular at RFPs for cash management services.
Contributors: Phil Stewart, Head of Treasury – Cash and Banking at BAT and David Stebbings, Head of Treasury Advisory at PwC.
This podcast looks at Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), the initiative spearheaded by the OECD and the G20, which has been designed to counter perceived tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Contributors: Graham Robinson, Tax Partner at PwC and Alan Dick, Vice President of Treasury at Delphi Technologies and former Director of Tax and Treasury at Amec Foster Wheeler.
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This podcast provides a brief overview of IFRS 9, some detail of the changes and the differences from the previous standard, IAS 39, and looks at the practical effects of those changes.
Contributors: Kush Patel, Partner, Deloitte and Michelle Price the ACT’s Associate Policy & Technical Director.
We have also provided information about IFRS 9 in the February/March edition of The Treasurer.
This is the second of our two-part series on risk. Here we use the risk framework to look at currency risk and foreign exchange.
Contributors: James Lockyer, the ACT’s development director and former treasurer and Tom Gilliam, Treasury Manager at global beer and soft drinks business, SABMiller plc.
This is the first of a two-part series on risk. A framework for risk discusses risk generally and a framework for managing risk.
Contributors: James Lockyer, the ACT’s development director and former treasurer and Tom Gilliam, Treasury Manager at global beer and soft drinks business, SABMiller plc.
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