Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook 3/E, 3rd Edition

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Oracle Treasury

reasury departments have two core functions: corporate finance, which is the process of raising long-term finance (for a company’s expansion or acquisition program) and short-term funding, which is the art of understanding the company’s cash flow; and managing surpluses and shortfalls, making use of capital markets to borrow or invest money.

The objective of corporate treasury operations is to optimize financial performance. Passive intervention works on the premise that financial markets cannot be predicted and seeks to ...