Cash Concentration Pros and Cons
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Learn the advantages and disadvantages of cash concentration
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Now I'm just going to look at some of the pros and cons of cash concentration. One of the things to be mindful of is that central bank approval may be required, however, whilst the requirement it is permitted in many financial centers, advantages are you'll only need to look at one account to actually see what the group balances are. This is due to the fact that all surplus cash has been swept into one single account and is therefore creating an automatic set off between the surpluses and the deficits. Now the disadvantages are that it creates a lot of reconciliation because there's constant cash movements. Every day there's a cash movement from one account into a main hub account. Each separate legal entity will start off each day with a 0 balance or, or the minimum target balance. It ends up creating intercompany loans as you've got cash moving from one legal entity into another legal entity. This makes interest apportionment quite difficult to work out and quite complex and can create accounting issues. We always suggest a separate treasury account is required, as otherwise any other lead account would get contaminated by these treasury cash movements.