The CFO Innovation Shanghai Forum

Keynote Panel: Expansion and Cost Management

With the economy transitioning to domestic consumption, companies in China are embarking on expanding distribution networks, exploring new markets and developing new products. Yet rising labor costs, currency volatility, and the credit environment pose significant risks. How can finance strike the right balance between supporting new investments and exercising prudence?

Keynote Panel: Cross-Border Outbound and Inbound M&A

Finance plays a key role in cross-border acquisitions, whether Chinese enterprises stepping out or foreign companies entering China. In this session, CFOs who have engineered their company’s innovative forays into China, India, Brazil, America, Europe and other places share:

• M&A or joint venture?
• Capitalizing on new opportunities such as taking over assets of troubled Western companies
• Due diligence and business models and strategies
• Operational integration, HR and cultural adjustment

Keynote Presentation: How to Create a Successful Business Intelligence Function

• Using Business Intelligence to drive the right behavior in to the company
• Key factors to success with your implementation of Business Intelligence
• Top five success stories with your Business Intelligence

Lunch

Keynote Presentation: Strategies for Proactive Risk Management and Strengthened Internal Control

As financial regulations continue to tighten globally against money laundering, and economic volatility intensified in local and external economies, risk management and mitigation remain the number one concern for CFOs as they look into:

• Global regulatory compliance requirements and China’s anti-bribery law implications
• Enhancing risk management response, especially early warning systems in organizations: best practices
• Mitigating counterparty risks in export-driven market through credit insurance and other tools

Keynote Panel: Working Capital, Trade Finance and Other Fund-Raising

• Credit lines, bank borrowings, trade finance
• Bonds, convertible bonds, commercial paper
• Dimsum bonds in Hong Kong; bringing offshore RMB onshore
• IPOs, secondary listing; controversial reverse takeover structure in US market
• Strategies to increase corporate credibility to source cheaper financing

Afternoon break

Panel Discussion: Innovations in Finance Management I

This session features CFOs who have successfully designed and executed transformative innovations in their company’s financial management in the following areas:

• Centres of excellence, shared services and other in-sourcing solutions
• Accounting automation and optimization: moving up the value chain
• Harnessing cloud computing for finance and accounting: risk considerations and implementation recommendations

Panel Discussion: Innovations in Finance Management II

This session features CFOs who have successfully designed and executed transformative innovations in their company’s financial management in the following areas:

• Rolling budgets, forecasts and business intelligence
• Cash and treasury management including settling trade in RMB
• Strategy setting and business partnering

Panel Discussion: Developing Finance Talent – and the CFO

As companies expand and innovate, competition for finance talent is correspondingly growing intense. New opportunities for CFOs in other companies also open up. How may finance professionals turn the challenges into opportunities for themselves and their company? This session will focus on:

• The current finance talent market in China: Channels for talent acquisition and how CFOs can help HR play a more active role
• Creating a development plan for effective staff retention
• Preparing senior management for overseas posting
• Professional development for CFOs and succession planning

Chairman’s closing remarks & End of forum