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  • Software Spotlight: Capella’s Management Reporting Dashboard

    Capella’s Management Reporting Dashboard provides users with a vehicle to show metrics and views to their specific needs. On the home page view, a user can toggle between the Standard menu and the Dashboard views using two buttons in the middle on the top of the screen. Under the Dashboard view, Standard menu also appears […]

  • FASB Roundtable: ‘Good Enough’ Draft Not Perfect, but Ready

    The message from participants at this month’s FASB roundtable was clear: The pursuit of a “perfect” update to ASC 815 shouldn’t get in the way of a timely release of the current “good enough” draft.

  • Parking Cash Abroad is Risky. Here’s What Treasurers Can Do.

    As originally written by Helen Kane for AFP. It is quite common for U.S. corporations with foreign functional entities to leave cash overseas until an American tax holiday makes it advantageous to convert it to U.S. dollars.

  • FASB Changes: How Should Commodity Hedgers Prepare?

    One of the most touted headlines around the recent FASB Exposure Draft dealing with hedge accounting is the fact that commodity hedgers will be allowed to bifurcate risk.

  • Apples and Oranges: the Time Value Component of Options vs. Forwards

    Currency hedgers have the choice of including or excluding time value in effectiveness testing when applying cash flow hedge accounting to derivatives hedging forecasted FX-denominated transactions.

  • Points Well Taken: Revisiting Effectiveness Methods, in the Context of Proposed Hedge Accounting Rules

    The FASB’s proposed changes to its hedge accounting model may provide an impetus for hedgers to reassess their current approaches to effectiveness testing and consider how they might best benefit from the future rules as they are likely to be structured.

  • Commodity Hedgers: What You Need to Know About the New Hedge Accounting Exposure Draft

    Hedge accounting is changing – for the better, no less! There are a few items in FASB’s Sept. 8 Exposure Draft that should be noted, as these will affect all commodity hedgers taking special hedge accounting:

  • IR Hedgers: What You Need to Know About the New Hedge Accounting Exposure Draft

    Hedge accounting is changing – for the better, no less! There are a few items in FASB’s Sept. 8 Exposure Draft that should be noted, as these will affect all interest rate hedgers taking special hedge accounting:

  • FX Hedgers: What You Need to Know About the New Hedge Accounting Exposure Draft

    Hedge accounting is changing – for the better! There are a few items in FASB’s Sept. 8 Exposure Draft that should be noted, as these will affect all foreign currency hedgers taking special hedge accounting:

  • The Forest & The Trees: Keeping Your Cash Flow Hedge Program in Perspective

    Every cash flow hedge program begins with the best intentions: Reducing the impact FX, interest rate or commodity volatility has on anticipated revenues and expenses.

  • FASB Hedge Accounting Exposure Draft: What You Need to Know

    On Sept. 8, the FASB released a new Exposure Draft on special hedge accounting, the objective of which is to make hedge accounting more accessible, simpler to achieve and easier to account for, at a greatly reduced risk of restatement. Hedge Trackers believes that this proposal will greatly benefit hedgers as their focus can return […]

  • Hedge Accounting Rules: Relief (Still) on the Way

    An exposure draft which will update current hedge accounting rules is in the works, though delayed. Hedgers can expect relief from some of the more onerous hedge accounting requirements.

  • Software Spotlight: Tips and Tricks

    CapellaFX software brings users improved economic effectiveness and operational efficiency, significant cost reductions, standardized controls and much more. Get even more from Capella with these operational tips and tricks and ensure your fourth quarter goes on without a hitch.

  • Identifying Sources of Risk Within Your Spreadsheets

    It’s no secret that hedge accounting can be extraordinarily complex – particularly when it comes to accounting for derivatives used to hedge anticipated revenue and expenses. Still, many professionals are using spreadsheets to administer their foreign currency hedge programs. This may be problematic for a number of reasons.

  • Making Hedge Program Analytics Actionable

    On a purely theoretical level, the goal of a balance sheet hedge program is to simply cancel out the effects of FX volatility on the books. If an exposure produces a loss, the theory goes, a derivative should produce an equivalent gain – offsetting the loss completely, and creating a net gain or loss of […]