There are many traditional cash and treasury management solutions available to companies. Bayberry Associates can offer the following services in helping your company select the right ones suitable to your operation:

• Designing and implementing a tailored cash management system comprising cash concentration (including branch banking and zero-balance accounts), cash collections (including stand-alone lockboxes and lockbox networks) and cash disbursements (including controlled disbursements and positive pay).
  
  
• Selecting the right cash management bank and negotiating the best deals including options such as paying in fees versus keeping compensating balances.
  
  
• Fine-tuning existing cash management systems with the emphasis on reducing bank fees maximizing investment earnings and/or reducing borrowing costs.
  
  
• Evaluating information management systems in order to improve balance reporting and to obtain transaction details more timely.
  
  
• Providing expertise in liquidity management including investment options for excess funds and analyzing various borrowing options.
  
  
• Finding and evaluating investment money managers.
  
  
• Preparing written investment policies.
  
  
• Negotiating credit facilities (both short and long-term).
  
  
• Improving cash flow forecasting methods (including the use of spreadsheets such as Excel) with the emphasis on improving liquidity.
  
  
• Evaluating financial controls and internal audit procedures in order to improve the safeguarding of cash.
  
  
• Reviewing existing domestic and international treasury related policies and procedures and recommending improvements.
  
  
• Helping with international monetary issues including foreign exchange purchases currency hedging and foreign collections.

These are just a sampling of the services available from Bayberry Associates. Our goal is to assist you in finding the right solutions necessary to improve your company’s handling of cash.