CorporateManager

Improve shareholder value by managing market risk to reduce earnings volatility

Designed specifically to address the needs of corporate treasury professionals, CorporateManager is a market risk measurement and reporting service, delivering RiskMetrics Group's proven analytics via a web interface. CorporateManager models movements in market factors, such as exchange rates, interest rates, and commodity prices over a corporation's planning horizon. It tracks the effect of market movements on the company's business exposures, debt financing, derivatives contracts, and any other market exposures.

CorporateManager's customizable accounting logic captures the impact on the company's bottom line—earnings and cash flows. A flexible report generator delivers real-time reports, a variety of graphs, “what if” scenarios, diagnostics, and interactive drill-down analysis in multiple dimensions.

Used by hundreds of corporate treasury professionals worldwide, CorporateManager enables you to model and aggregate a corporation's market exposures, and use this data to measure risk to earnings and cash flows accurately, interactively, and in real time. CorporateManager also provides easy-to-use tools to generate reports and graphs to view and communicate risk in multiple ways.

Client Benefits

• Understand how future market movements can affect the company bottom line
• Make informed hedging decisions to avoid unexpected drops in earnings and cash flows
• Evaluate the impact of business decisions on corporate risk exposure
• Aggregate exposures and capture diversification effects across divisions, business units, countries, or subsidiaries
• Transparent, company-wide risk analyses for treasury officers, senior management, shareholders, rating agencies, and regulators
• Measure earnings risk in accordance with U.S. and international accounting standards
• Ensure that company risk exposures are within internal limits
• Use flexible reporting tools to produce risk reports suitable for regulatory agencies

Key CorporateManager Features

Reporting

• Statistics include:
  • Earnings-at-Risk
  • Cash Flows-at-Risk
  • Portfolio Sensitivity
  • Counterparty Exposure
  • Present Value
  • Value-at-Risk
• Flexible drill-down and filter capabilities
• Graphs such as heat maps, bar charts, and scatter plots
• Results exportable in PDF or Excel
  

Analytics

• Models market movements using corporate forecasts, historical data, or the market’s own view
• Admits corporate budgeting forecasts as a baseline for risk measurement
• Allows modeling of relationships between corporate exposure size and market variables
• Portfolio treatment allows aggregation of risk across all divisions and risk types
• Provides large amount of market data, such as yield curves and implied volatilities

Accounting

• Customizable treatment by position includes an option to defer recognition of earnings to capture hedging
• Consistent with FAS 133 and IAS 39 accounting standards
• Estimates earnings and cash flows over multiple periods
  

CorporateManager in Use

Designed specifically for corporate treasury professionals, CorporateManager helps you make better decisions and improve shareholder value by managing market risk to reduce earnings volatility.