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July 3, 2002:  Nippon Kaiun Club (Nagatacho), Tokyo, JAPAN

 08:00
REGISTRATION
 08:30

Chairman's Address:
Yoshiyuki Okimoto, Director, 
ChuoAoyama Audit Corporation (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

 08:40

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
How Finance Strategies Can Increase Corporate Value       
Kensuke Hotta, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Japan Limited

 09:10

Morning Coffee/Tea and Networking

 09:20

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: 
Cash and Liquidity: How Much is Enough?
Dr. James Hodge, Assistant Treasurer, AT&T (U.S)

  • What is Optimal Position?
  • What are Decision Criteria?
  • What are Sources of Liquidity?
  • How to Obtain from Banks?
  • How have the Parameters affecting decisions changed?
 10:00

Treasury Management from the Standpoint of Reinforcing Industry Competitiveness
Hirohide Hirai, Assistant Director, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, 
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

  • Points from the Industry Competitiveness Strategy Council proposal
  • Improving productivity, economic growth, and industry competitiveness
  • Improving productivity of White Collar workers
  • Improving productivity within Treasury Management
 10:40
Morning Coffee/Tea and Networking
 10:55 CASE-STUDY: 
Cash Management through Incorporating In-house Banking /CMS
Kenichi Ohta, Executive Vice President and CFO, Mobilecast Inc.
  • Why incorporate In-house Banking/CMS now?
  • Can Best Practices in the US be implemented in Japan?
  • What working capital management will be like in the future
 11:35

Investor Relations in Direct Capital Markets
Akira Sato, VP Treasury and Global Treasurer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

  • Importance of Capital Market in Nissan
  • Approach to individual investors in Japan in addition to institutional investors
  • Importance of Investors Relations in Capital market
 12:15
LUNCHEON

 13:10


KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
The Role and Issues for CFOs in Japanese Corporations        
Tetsuo Seki, Representative Director and Executive Vice President (CFO), 
Nippon Steel Corporation

 13:40

CMS (Cash Management Service) Achievements and Problems - Experience and Knowledge gained from Corporate CMS Implementation
Keiichi Yano, General Manager, Global Cash Management Dept., Electronic Commerce Banking Dept, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

  • Consolidation starts from CMS
  • Successes and Failures of Group Cash Management
  • Case-studies of Cash Management when entering the Overseas Market
 14:20

CASE-STUDY:
Implementation of CMS at Hitachi and How it May be Applied to Other Corporations
Kazuo Miura, General Manager, Finance Department II, Hitachi Limited

  • Why we worked on centralizing cash?
  • Time table for centralization of cash by area
  • Concrete examples of introduction of domestic and overseas CMS
  • Cash management by area (Quadruple Structure) – Global Cash Management
 15:00
Afternoon Coffee/Tea and Networking
 15:20

Funds/Risk Management by Group Centralised Treasury Operations Using a Software Package System
Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation, Financial Systems Division

  • Importance of Group consolidated treasury/risk management
  • BPR of the treasury operations (Realisation of STP from input to accounting)
  • Tips for systemizing Group centralized treasury management
  • Suntory case study (Speaker: Katsuyasu Kato, General Manager, Finance Dept., Suntory Limited)
 16:00

Achieving Positive Yields on Cash Liquidity in a Zero Interest Rate Environment
Deutsche Securities Limited, Tokyo Branch

  • Determining investment strategies according to credit, market and liquidity risk appetite
  • Identifying and evaluating risk components of alternative investments
  • Tailoring short-term investment alternatives to bank deposits
 16:40
Closing Comments
　!* Speakers/Agenda are subject to change