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Cash forecasting & Smart treasury

What is

*Best-in-class & award-winning technology- Best Practice in Working Capital - CFO magazine - European Fintech Awards – Nomination- …

Cashforce is a ‘next-generation’* Cash & Smart Treasury Platform, focused on

automation and integration.

• Team of Cash flow & IT specialists

• Offices in Europe (BE, NL, FR, UK) & US (New York)

• Our clients are large to mid-size global enterprises

• Backed by US (Techstars Ventures)

and EU (Volta Ventures, Pamica, BNP Paribas) investorsSome of our References – Users in over 120 countries

Cash Management in global & complex businesses is challenging 3

ERP

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Multi - Entity

Multi - Bank

Complex ERP

Multi - Currency$

ERP

ERP

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Less time left for actionsLow accuracy, so more buffers

Absence of targetsOnly yearly

Few people involved & no corporate cash flow awareness

Banks

Number crunching & data analysesTime-consuming processes

XLSERP

Challenges in Cash flow management & forecasting

Admin & Analysis

ActionFollow-up

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Less time left for actionsLow accuracy, so more buffers

Absence of targetsOnly yearly

Banks

Number crunching & data analysesTime-consuming processes

XLSERP

Challenges in Cash flow management & forecasting

Admin & Analysis

ActionFollow-up

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Actuals:Integration with bank statements & ERP (GL)

Working capital & Short-term forecast:Sales/Purchase invoices & payments, Sales/Purchase orders,Customer/Vendor master data

Other sources

Input & Mgmt of Non-ERP data

Sales projections, purchase budgets

Treasury flows

Projects, Capex, Payroll, Taxes, Direct Debits (Rent, Leasings…)

Bank statements or ERP (GL)

Throughour available

ERP connectors(plug & play)

Our platform

Data sources

Analysis & Simulations

Refresh• daily of ad-hoc• incremental or full

(With audit trail in case of manual input)

(from TMS or managed through Cashforce)

• short vs. long term• forecast vs. actuals• forecast vs. forecast• what-if scenarios

Smart forecasting logicSmart algorithms that make your cash

forecast really accurate.

(Excel, Business Warehouses,...)

Bank Balances (& manual updates payment layer) ERP

Seamless data integration

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Cashforce ConnectivityBanks, ERP, TMS, Financial Market Data

Multi-Tenant ArchitectureTailored access-levels, Flexible reporting, Easy distribution

Bank statement processing

Statement translation & validation

Outgoing payment processing

Deal Management

Treasury accounting & payments

Market data integration

FX exposure Management

ICO netting

Cash pooling & in-house bank mgmt.

Bank covenant reporting

Order-to-Cash Analytics

Purchase-to-Pay Analytics

Inventory Analytics

Integration with ERP & other data sets

+Manual input with audit trail

+Trend-based forecasts

Smart Cash flow logic

Simulations

Target Balancing / Funding

Actuals vs Forecast Analysis

Forecast vs Forecast Analysis

Bank Balance Reporting

Automated Cash Flow Classification based on G/L & bank statements

Bank fee analysis

Credit facility Management

GL - Bank account reconciliation

Cash Flow Analytics

Cash Flow Forecasting

Bank connectivity & payments

Working Capital Analytics

Smart Treasury

Integrated

Key Differentiators compared to classical TMS systems

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Smart logic making our forecasts more accurate

Drill-down to transactional detail through Big Data Engine

Easy onboarding due to plug-and-play ERP connectors

Fine grained General Ledger based cash flow classification

Easy onboarding due to plug-and-play ERP connectors

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Easy onboarding due to plug-and-play ERP connectors

Only system that includes extensive Working Capital Analytics

Very flexible and easy-to-use reporting & visualization engine

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General Ledger-based vs MT940 rule-based allocation methodology

Information depends on bank statement format

General Ledger-based allocationMT940 rule-based allocation

Not granular (only Opex vs Capex)

High maintenance due to an ever-growing set of rules

Information is richer, because it comes from the GL transactions

Granular information, because it uses the existing Accounting entries in the ERP system

Low maintenance: Chart of Accounts mapping

(easy to understand & maintain)

High maintenance due to an ever-growing set of rules

Working Capital Analytics

Reduce your working capital level

• Analyse the Cash Conversion Cycle

from high-level till the transactional details

• Communicate with the operational

departments using off-the-shelve dashboards

• Perform simulations to evaluate potential

working capital measures

Order to Cash | Forecast to Fulfill | Purchase-to-Pay

Cash Flow Analytics

Hassle-free cash management

• Ultimate cash visibility

• Easy Bank Account & Cash pool Mgmt.

• Integration with different bank statement

formats (MT940, BAI2, EBICS...)

• Automated Cash Flow Classification & trend

analysis (up to a much deeper level!)

• Credit Line Monitoring

Cash Flow Forecasting

Across multiple companies / banks / accounts / currencies / cash pools

Predict the future more accurately...

• Connect with your ERP(s) & other data sources

• Manual input with audit trail

• Apply smart forecasting logic

• Combine short and long term forecasting

• Simulate what-if scenarios

• Smart balancing & funding processes

• Analyse Forecast vs Actuals

Smart Treasury

Deal management

FX exposure mgmt.

ICO mgmt. & balancing

Bank connectivity & payments

Nothing like a classic TMS…

Treasury accounting& payments

IRS /Counter

party riskmgmt.

Market data & MTM

Cash pooling & in-house

banking Deal management

Bank connectivity & payments

Market data & MTM

The building blocks for a smart treasury

system

Manufacturing

Saving time & money across various industries

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“In my 25 years experience of looking at cash flow solutions, Cashforce is simply the best. It

saves you real money by superior functionality, it’s comprehensive and cuts through the usual complexity of ERP reporting and forecasting. Cashforce is a game changer!”

Brian Shanahan - Global Cash & Working Capital Specialist

DistributionTransportation

& LogisticsProfessional

services

martijn.duijnstee@cashforce.com

+31 627 05 33 50

Martijn Duijnstee

VP Business Development

nicolas.christiaen@cashforce.com

+32 479 65 52 95

Nicolas Christiaen

Managing Partner