Risk in the Boardroom Survey
27/07/2020 Mazars in collaboration with Board Agenda and INSEAD has surveyed how boards maintain oversight of, and ultimate control over, risk in their companies.
Business continuity
Business continuity during and beyond Covid-19
04/06/2020 Owners and managers of privately owned businesses are no strangers to overcoming challenges, but Covid-19 has created unprecedented issues that even the most experienced leaders are unsure how to handle. One of the most frequently asked questions in recent weeks has been, “What happens if I am suddenly unable to manage the business for a period of time? And how can I ensure business continuity...
Securing debt during Covid-19
04/05/2020 The world has significantly changed for businesses over the last couple of months. A key consideration which has emerged as a result of the Covid-19 crisis is cash flow management. Access to funding has become critical for many businesses in the short term and to ensure liquidity in the medium term for a post-Covid world.
Rebuilding Credit Card Profitability post Covid-19
The current pandemic is having far reaching consequences across all aspects of society. Compared to other industries the impact on the credit card industry is relatively mild and from a customer perspective the value of on-demand liquidity is now clearer than ever. However, there will be significant impacts on industry profitability. Reduced international travel will severely impact foreign currency...
How banks can prepare for life after containment
24/04/2020 Covid-19 disruption to the banking sector is widespread, including changes to working patterns, changes in customer behaviour, changes to partner-supplier dynamics and direct impacts on profit and loss accounts. The phase of immediate action to ensure business continuity is now largely complete. As infection curves flatten, restrictions are gradually eased and light starts to emerge at...
How to adjust accounting to manage cash
23/04/2020 The current health crisis may have caused business to come to a halt for some, but for those operating in essential sectors, confinement measures have accelerated production and sales cycles. In whatever circumstance a business finds itself, it needs to find ways of managing available cash if it wants to be in a commercially viable position post-crisis. Since cash flow forecasts are driven...
Webinar: African banks and Covid-19 [replay]
22/04/2020 In the context of Covid-19, Mazars was moderating a web conference, held in French, organised by I-conférences with a number of experts to discuss potential impacts of the current crisis on banks in Africa and ways digitalisation could support their operations.
Internal audit during & beyond the Covid-19 crisis
17/04/2020 This paper has been created to better enable Heads of Internal Audit to assess the key risks, redefine priorities and prepare for the future.
Crisis management planning to navigate Covid-19
16/04/2020 As the Covid-19 crisis continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the challenges for privately owned business are going to last longer, and cut deeper, than anyone anticipated. The initial hope was that businesses were facing a short-term challenge, and that after a short, sharp shock lasting a month or two, things would start settling back to normal. But that is now looking highly...
Covid-19 publications on Banks’ ECL under IFRS 9
15/04/2020 In the context of Covid-19, our expert Vincent Guillard presents recent EBA, IASB, ESMA and BCE publications and the consequences of these new accounting and prudential measures on banks’ ECL under IFRS 9.
Dealing with payment delays
08/04/2020 The global economy is weakened due to Covid-19: supply chains are disrupted, and market and consumer confidence is undermined. As the consequences of the pandemic continue to occur, many businesses should expect payment delays, loss of revenue and cash shortfalls. Working in these uncertain times, the ability of financial models to forecast business downturns will serve their owners and...
Amending and renegotiating financing contracts
07/04/2020 For borrowers and lenders alike, there is an atmosphere of confusion during these uncertain times. Banks are waiting to hear back from borrowers on the impact the crisis has had on their activities. Companies are expecting banks and other institutions to help them get through this rough patch through necessary measures. In this wait-and-see period, where communication is abundant despite...
Seven points of vigilance for corporate treasurers
06/04/2020 The Treasury & Cashflow Management department at Mazars has summarised seven important points for corporate treasurers in times of crisis:
Organisational resilience
30/03/2020 As the spread of Covid-19 continues around the world, many businesses are looking for ways to move forward and keep their customers happy and their people productive. In response to the pandemic, we ask our organisational resilience team what leaders can do to keep their people safe and their business working.
Repayment, refinancing and recovery
30/03/2020 In response to the economic consequences of Covid-19, governments have implemented interventionist measures that include partial unemployment, the deferral of corporate and individual tax deadlines, and the suspension of rent payments. While such policies can defer insolvency and subsequent restructuring and liquidation proceedings, SMEs need to ensure they able to ‘bounce back’ when a...
Collecting Cash & Managing Cashflow
24/03/2020 As the Covid-19 pandemic amplifies, cash and overheads will quickly become critical if operations and output are impacted, while staff and outgoings remain fixed.
Dealing with Covid-19 as Privately Owned Business
19/03/2020 As we all know, the Covid-19 pandemic is a very serious threat to the health and wellbeing of people throughout the world. The spread of the virus, as well as efforts to contain it, are now significantly impacting our daily lives. The priority must be to take all actions required to mitigate the effect of the pandemic and protect our people. We must also acknowledge the inevitable knock-on...