Corporate Financial Function
Marie-Line Ardito

General Description

There are 4 sections in Cash:
The main Cash page provides an overview of the Group's Financial situation with an highlight on Working Capital Variation, Capex, Simplified Cash Flow and the ratio Working Capital/Net Sales.
It provides the previous month's result comparing with BFR or Budget or Restated (see Comparaison rule)
  • Comex
  • Controlling
  • Finance
All the accesses must be validated by:
Corporate Finance - point 1 and 3
GBU Finance Director + copy to Corporate Finance - point 2
1 .Lead FD Role (specific role)
2 .1 GBU / Legal Entities (of the GBU)
3 .Multi GBUs / Legal Entities
Access form
Key Figure Examples
  • Total of actual "CAPEX" (Key figures) in M€ for the Month or Quarter (according to actual month)
  • Total of Budget, BFR, or restated in M€ (according to actual month) - See description of Comparison Rule
  • Delta (in percentage) between the actual and its comparison.
Actual
Current Year's results
Restated
Previous Year's (Y-1) results based on Current Year's structure and rate
Historical
Previous Year's (Y-1) Official results published
Budget
Official forecast for Current Year defined in October Previous Year (Y-1)
BFR
4 re-forecast for Current Year : BFR03/BFR06/BFR09/BFR12 = (Official forecast for Current Year defined in October Previous Year - Total Actual Q1+Q2+Q3)
Comparaison rule

Sources
 
BFC
All except below listed managed by Corporate Finance
Manual Files
  • BFR  – quarterly basis
  • WACC Corporate – updated by the Corporate Finance
  • WACC GBUs – updated by the Corporate Finance
  • Tax Rate – updated by the Corporate Finance
  • Maintenance rate – updated by the Corporate Finance
  • Free cash flow – updated by the Corporate Finance. Actual by month, Historical by quarter, budget of the Year and BFR by month :
    • Delta working capital others
    • Tax cash out
    • Provisions cash out
    • Others & Disc. opFree cash flow