Treasury: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Treasury

  • the department of a company or corporation that deals with all financial matters
  • in some countries, the government department responsible for the nation's financial policies as well as the management of the economy

Wiktionary Definition for: Treasury

  • a place where treasure is stored safely
  • a place where state or royal money and valuables are stored
  • a collection or artistic or literary works

Additional Resources

Commercial Policy Framework: Treasury Management Policy
The Treasury Management Policy applies to the treasury functions of all public sector agencies, incorporating both General Government agencies and Government businesses. However, the policy is of greater relevance to Government businesses, given the extent of their treasury functions. The objective of the policy is to provide an overarching framework...
Tags: Treasury Management Policy, Financial Services, Treasury Function, Treasury Management
White papers 2002-09-01
U.S. Treasury Miscalculation? - second choice for International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohler, could be more independent minded than candidate Treasury Department opposed - Brief Article
Now that the question of the next head of the International Monetary Fund has been settled, the normal second guessing has already set in. The main point: The U.S. Treasury may have won the battle over this particular personnel decision but lost the war in terms of its relationship with...
Tags: IMF, U.S. Department of Treasury
Research articles 2000-05-01
Latest Downsizing Victim? Corporate Treasuries
Outsourcing of treasury activities has become a latest trendsetter in the corporate world today. The concept of handing over bits of its treasury department to third party is gaining momentum in the industrial sector. Some foresee consolidation, with banks, technology providers, and other partners teaming up to form treasury-outsourcing powerhouses....
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Downsizing, Outsourcing, Business Structures, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Human Resources
White papers 2002-02-01
Foolproofing Treasury Functions
This paper highlights on Treasury management systems which were first introduced by major cash management banks in the late 1980s, shortly after personal computers came on the scene. With the invention of treasury management system, reports can be downloaded, and the treasurer can start the day with a consolidated position....
Tags: Financial Services, Treasury Management
White papers
The Flight-to-Liquidity Premium in U.S. Treasury Bond Prices
This paper examines whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of bonds issued by Refcorp, a U.S. Government agency. As these bonds are affected, they have the same credit as Treasury bonds. A strong evidence that this liquidity premium is related to...
Tags: Bond, University Of California At Los Angeles, Finance, Investment, U.S. Department Of Treasury
White papers 2001-05-01
U.S. Treasury going long again?
Thirty-year Treasury bonds could be making a comeback. That should be good news for corporate debt issuers, since their bonds generally compete with the Treasury Department's 10-year notes, which would be used less frequently.
Tags: U.S. Department of Treasury
Research articles 2005-06-01
Expense Reduction: Today's Watchword for CFOs
Reducing treasury related expenses can be a complex issue. CFO's has numerous options for reducing treasury costs, but little time to screen and select the best method. Treasury providers offer many solutions via innovative products, services and technologies but finding one to maximize the impacts on expenses without unduly disrupting...
Tags: CFO, Expense
White papers 2005-01-29
Which are the Best Banks ?
This paper discusses the Treasury & Risk Management's Survey about Treasury and Risk management. The consolidation trend in the banking industry may be shrinking your choice of banks, but Treasury & Risk Management's 2004 Treasury Management Survey can at least help you evaluate those left standing. It also will provide...
Tags: Bank, Treasury & Risk Management, Financial Services
White papers 2004-09-09
An Investor's Guide to U.S. Treasury Securities
U.S. Treasury securities?such as bills, notes and bonds?are debt obligations of the U.S. government. When an investor buys a Treasury security, he is lending money to the federal government for a specified period of time. Because these debt obligations are backed by the full faith and credit" of the government,...
Tags: Government, Financial Accounting, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Investor, U.S. Department Of Treasury, Free Trade, Taxes
White papers 2003-11-25
Now, the Only Choice is to Go Global on Cash
This paper explores the Treasury Management and handling it across various functionality. Every treasury tinkered with consolidating its cash management before, but the demand for real-time cash control now makes this effort a No. 1 priority. Although standardize, centralize and globalize have been the mantra for cash management for the...
Tags: Treasury, Treasury & Risk Management, Banking, Financial Services
White papers 2003-01-01
International Finance: Treasury Has Reduced the Number of Attaches Overseas
The number of financial attaches that the Department of the Treasury Treasury deploys overseas dropped from approximately 30 in 1981 to 7 at the beginning of fiscal year 2005. Treasury has traditionally used financial attaches to monitor and gather information on international economic and financial developments to help shape U.S....
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial, Treasury, U.S.
White papers 2005-09-01
CSC wins $200 million Treasury contract
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 29, 1995--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC) has been named one of 12 vendors to provide information-processing support services to the Department of the Treasury and other Treasury bureaus.
Tags: Computer Sciences Corp., Treasury
Research articles 1995-06-29
SunGard buys Quantum advantage
SunGard is to acquire Global Information Solutions, the owners and developers of the Quantum Treasury Management System, along with the Quantum business operations of KPMG Information Solutions. The move consolidates SunGard's leadership of the treasury systems market. It gives the company a topend treasury system to add to its growing...
Tags: Quantum Corp., SunGard Data Systems Inc.
Research articles 2000-02-01
Treasury Risk the Roadmap - Part Three
To have a centralised treasury function in a company is usually an issue only for large diversified corporations. Many companies have decided to outsource the treasury function. To a greater or lesser extent this has many advantages, particularly in terms of having access to up to date technology and systems...
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Finance, Team Management, Performance Management, Operational Accounting, Treasury Function, Management
White papers 2003-10-01
International Treasury Back to Basics - The Effect of Transfer Pricing
Transfer pricing is a fair, but arm’s length price assigned to the buying/selling of goods and services between related companies. The main Objectives of this article are to review Treasury’s interface with global business operations, describe operating and treasury transactions, introduce and define transfer pricing concepts. Treasury must understand the...
Tags: Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Treasury renews call for re-think of Fed's oversight role
The Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the Treasury Department, David Nason, has asserted the need to recast the Federal Reserve's role as part of an overhaul of the U.S. financial system proposed by the Treasury Department last month.
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Treasury
Research articles 2008-05-07
Treasury Workstations: The Next Generation
This paper describes the treasury at DuPont which has been working diligently to move from regional liquidity management to global, reorganizing its cash operations around two treasury centers in Wilmington and Singapore and whittling away at its banking relationships until it is essentially down to three major regional banks?Citibank, J.P....
Tags: Workstation, Treasury & Risk Management, Treasury, Liquidity, Banking, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-06-01
Treasury's Net Gains
The Internet finally is having a noticeable effect on treasury operations and is helping managers achieve their top objective, greater internal efficiencies. The one force that has affected treasury over the past year more than the Internet is the drive to improve efficiency. The Internet presents new possibilities for internal...
Tags: Internet, Penton Media Inc., Efficiency, Treasury
White papers 2003-10-01
Implications Of The Treasury Decision
The decision by the Treasury to end issuance of 30-year debt caught markets by surprise. This surprise was more about timing, however, than any fundamental news about fiscal policy or debt supply. Treasury's announcement did not make a material change to the likely supply of long Treasury bonds. Treasury has...
Tags: Bond, Treasury, Finance, Morgan Stanley, Investment
White papers 2002-11-08
Moody's Public Finance Department Rating News; D.C. Mayor indicates Treasury borrowing likely by June; Questions remain as to whether, when and how much Treasury will provide
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 3, 1995--District of Columbia Mayor Barry recently announced that the District could petition the U.S. Treasury for as much as $440 million as early as June to cover a projected cash shortfall. In anticipation, the Treasury has requested that the U.S. Government Accounting Office...
Tags: finance, Moody's Corp., Treasury
Research articles 1995-05-03
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