In the late spring of 2008, GTA will begin offering a series of short programs focused on specific treasury practices and external fees paid for them, covering such topics as:

• Domestic and international treasury headcount, including treasury HR practices
• Investments in domestic and international treasury infrastructures
• Treasury practices, including evaluations of banks used, in specific countries
• Treasury transfer pricing on interco loans, derivatives, and subsidiary guarantees
• FAS 133 FX hedge accounting practices, including an analysis by auditor
• Short-term investing, including manager and custodian fees
• Practices, providers and fees for interco netting, payment factories and in-house banking.

The expected benefits from these competitive practices programs will include:

• Reduced external fees
• Tax savings
• Persuasive justifications for increased headcount, buying new treasury technology or adopting new treasury practices more appropriate to the current scale and objectives of your company.

These benefits will be achieved with a small investment of 4-6 hours of staff time/program for a fee less than a treasury seminar. The general program format will be:

• Short programs focused on one area, with a questionnaire taking no more than 1.5 hours to complete.
• Three weeks after the questionnaire period closes, you will receive a customized report unique to your company, showing your bolded responses against truly comparable peers, question-by-question.
• Six weeks after the questionnaire period closes, there will be a web conference with a PowerPoint presentation on the general results. This presentation will be designed to be easily converted into an analysis of your individual company's results, an analysis that would probably take no longer than 1-2 hours.