Session 05
X - Executive, A - Advanced, I - Intermediate, B – Basic, F- FP&A Renewal Credit, G - GTOT Credit
CTP Review Sessions are not available for CTP or FP&A credit.
Dark Data: Search, Collate, Conquer – Making Sense of Unstructured Cash Forecasting Data (I) (F)
- Nicolas Christiaen, CEO, Cashforce
Wednesday, April 14th
9:45am - 10:45am
Virtual
Session Description
Cybersecurity threats are constantly changing and staying ahead of them can be overwhelming. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a solid foundation for building business practices that enable early detection and effective response to cyberattacks. Audience participation during this session will simulate how business practices built on NIST CSF can impact your organization’s ability to respond to this risk.
Speaker Information
Nicolas Christiaen is a Finance Analytics expert specialized in Cash Management and Cash Forecasting. He is CEO & Co-founder of Cashforce, a new and leading working capital management & forecasting platform. With Cashforce, he has been working on international projects in the distribution & retail, manufacturing, logistics and services industries. He also leads the R&D department within Cashforce, making him the go-to-man for cutting-edge Cash Management technologies and practices. As a technology and cash specialist he is a renowned guest speaker in the FinTech community as well as a frequent panelist at international Treasury Conferences.
Public Funds Investment Act Compliance (I) (F) (G)
- Patrick Shinkle, Associate Director, UNT Center for Public Management
Wednesday, April 14th
9:45am - 10:45am
Virtual
Session Description
This session reviews the requirements of the Texas Public Funds Investment Act, with particular emphasis on the Investment Officer’s responsibilities. Upon completion, the participant should be able to understand the history of the Public Funds Investment Act, understand the requirements of the Act, and identify whether or not their organization is in compliance with the Act.
Speaker Information
Patrick Shinkle is the Director for the Center for Public Management at the University of North Texas. Prior to joining CPM, he was a Vice President at Southwest Securities, responsible for providing municipal bond underwriting and financial advisory services to public entities in Texas. Patrick has over 30 years of experience in public funds management in Texas, including 12 years as Administrator of LOGIC and 5 years as part of the TexPool management team. Patrick has frequently spoken on investment management, disaster recovery planning, computer security awareness, and technology related issues for such organizations as the Dallas Association for Financial Professionals, the Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas, the Texas Association of Counties, and the Texas Association of School Business Officials. Patrick received his undergraduate degree in Finance from Texas State University in San Marcos. He received his MBA and Master of Science in Information Assurance degrees from the University of Dallas, designated as a Center of Academic Excellence by the National Security Agency of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security for the Information Assurance program. He was selected as one of the Dallas Business Journal’s “Business School All-Stars for 2006.
The Resilient Organization: Beyond Surviving to Thriving (I) (F)
- Robin Johnson, MAPP, Owner, Robin Learning Systems
- Bent Hanson, Owner, Los Gringos Locos
Wednesday, April 14th
9:45am - 10:45am
Live
Session Description
Resilience is the ability to overcome, navigate through, bounce back, and grow while facing adversity. Organizational resilience is imperative during times of uncertainty and upheaval. Resilience is made up of learnable skills, and directly leads to enhanced problem solving, flexibility, and creativity. Attendees will examine specific real-life examples of organizational resilience, and how companies were able to survive and thrive while facing serious and unexpected economic threats due to Covid 19 and other disasters.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the latest research on resilience in individuals and organizations, and how resilience directly enables a company to “survive and thrive” amidst uncertainty and upheaval.
- Develop straightforward Real-Time Resilience skills that can be used within organizations to conserve, protect, and expand their human, financial, and technical capital.
- Learn specific strategies and creative mindsets to enhance and transform various areas of responsibility to more successfully meet unknown future challenges.
Speaker Information
Robin Johnson studied directly with Martin Seligman, Angela Duckworth, and Karen Reivich in Penn’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program, and has taught principles of organizational resilience to various professional groups. She helped create the “Developing Civility and Connections in Midland, Michigan” community enrichment program. Robin has an MBA with an emphasis in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University and a MAPP degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Robin also works with SAFEChecks and is the primary Editor of Frank Abagnale’s Fraud Bulletin.
Bent Hansen owns Los Gringos Locos, a high-end eatery in La Canada Flintridge, CA. Upon the overnight “lockdown” in March 2020, he pivoted and transformed his sit-down restaurant to a take-out restaurant, maintaining his family’s legacy that goes back generations. Bent has been hailed as one of the most innovative restauranteurs in Southern California, and has utilized “extreme creativity” in helping his company survive and thrive throughout the challenges of Covid 19 in Los Angeles County. Bent has taught “Creative Entrepreneurship in Business” at Glendale Community College and speaks nationally at numerous restaurant marketing conventions.
How to Reduce Your Credit Card Fees (I)
- Robert Day, Managing Partner, WeAudit.com
Wednesday, April 14th
9:45am - 10:45am
Live
Session Description
Businesses are over-billed more than $100 billion a year in credit card processing! You might think, “Not me. I’m sure I have a good deal. My processor told me I have the best rates and the best deal available.”
This session explains how the lack of regulation makes it easy for processors to simply just take the money right out of your bank account.
In this session, attendees will learn about:
- Deceptive billing tricks
- Bundled Billing
- Bucket Billing
- Enhanced Billing
- Zero Markup Billing
- Keeping Debit Rebates
- Keeping Interchange Rebates
- What your processing rates should be
- How credit card processing works – who gets paid what and why
- Interchange fees and upcoming changes
- The financial impact of using the wrong processing method
- How to spot “hidden fees” and “made-up fees”
- How to surcharge the easy way.”
Speaker Information
Robert Day is the Managing Partner of weAudit.com, a one-of-a-kind auditing firm that is revolutionizing the world of merchant processing by protecting merchants' profits often cutting their fees in half. Recognized as the “Industry Expert” of merchant processing by every major credit association (National Association of Credit Management, Credit Research Foundation, Credit Today, and Riemer Credit), he is a highly sought after speaker with his witty anecdotes and paradigm-shifting perspectives, giving him a rare ability to not just educate, but entertain. For 13 years, Robert was a top executive for one of the largest credit card processors in the country before crossing the aisle and co-founding weAudit.com. Now Robert has one simple goal: to educate merchants on how credit card processors use hidden fees to drive up fees by 30-50%. As a former corporate executive and former business owner, Robert has a special blend of experience and an intimate understanding of the needs of small to mid-sized merchants as well as Fortune 500 companies. It is Robert’s personal mission to lower merchants’ processing costs in order to “right the wrong” in the credit card processing industry and protect every businesses’ profits, ultimately defending and preserving the American dream.
CTP – Short Term Borrowing (B)
- Dubos Masson, Ph.D, CTP, CertICM, President - The Treasury Academy
- Tyrone Gant, CTP, SVP, Director of Treasury Management, Vector Bank
Wednesday, April 14th
9:45am - 10:45am
Virtual
Session Description
This session discussed the characteristics of different types of money market securities, as well as how these instruments are priced, yields are calculated and investments managed. Also included is coverage of short-term financing from the borrower’s perspective, including the calculation of the costs on bank lines of credit and commercial paper.
Speaker Information
D.J. Masson, Ph.D., is President of The Treasury Academy, a training and consulting firm specializing in treasury management, international finance, business forecasting, and risk management. Over the past 25 years, D.J. has provided business and financial consulting and training services to a wide variety of corporations, financial institutions, and not-for-profit organizations in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Finance at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business and is a trainer and curriculum developer for programs with Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), GT News and Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the U.K, and Citibank’s Global Transactions Services unit. D.J. has extensive experience in developing curriculum for a wide range of teaching and training environments, both residential and on-line. He has developed classes and taught at all levels of higher education: undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and in-house, custom-designed courses. D.J. has worked with professional associations to develop workshop, training materials, and certification programs in the areas of Treasury Management, Credit Management, Global Cash Management, Financial Forecasting, Commercial Banking, and Risk Management. D. J.’s educational background includes a B.A. in Business from the University of New Orleans and an MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from Indiana University. D.J. earned his Certified Cash Manager (CCM/CTP) credential in 1988. D.J. also earned the Cert ICM, an international cash management certification, from the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the UK in 1999.
Tyrone Gant, CTP, is the Director of Treasury Management for Vectra Bank Colorado, a division of Zions Bancorporation. Tyrone is a results oriented financial professional with 25 plus years’ experience in the banking industry including leading and executing growth and sales strategies, new business development and treasury management consulting.