Audit regulators bare their teeth
It is safe to say that the audit industry is currently under quite a bit of scrutiny. Through my conversations with a cross section of accounting practices across the UK, Europe and North America there…
The conundrum of materiality and financial instruments
As a guest speaker at a recent, global accounting network event I was very interested to hear a robust discussion focused on the subjective area of “materiality”. The unsurprising, and somewhat unsatisfactory, conclusion from the…
Hedgebook Partners with TreasuryXpress
We are excited to form a new Partnership with TreasuryXpress, a leader of on-demand digital treasury management solutions. Customers using TreasuryXpress’s platform benefit from easy-to-implement electronic payment workflows that helps automate payments and remove payment…
Migration to MS Azure (a Hedgebook case study by Microsoft)
Founded in 2011, in New Zealand, Hedgebook is a dynamic, international financial software company delivering innovative treasury management solutions to SMEs and their treasury providers – such as banks and foreign exchange brokers. Its mission…
PwC New Zealand and Hedgebook team up to co-develop the FX Strategy Tool
PwC New Zealand, a leading treasury advisory provider in New Zealand, has collaborated with treasury software developer, Hedgebook, to create the foreign exchange hedging Strategy Tool. The Strategy Tool is an add-on module to the…
Rising interest rates, positive impact on borrower’s IRS valuations
Despite a backdrop of trade wars, Brexit and other geo political uncertainties most regions have experienced an environment of increasing interest rates as the outlook is interpreted as generally positive. This has been most pronounced…
Structured options: part of a balanced FX hedge portfolio
Somewhat ironically, it is our observation that structured option products for FX hedging are heavily used by small-to-mid sized commercial firms and often overlooked by larger organisations. Many treasury policies exclude exotic options, unless approved…
Financial Reporting Council – The Enforcers
Did you know that the UK accounting watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council, nearly doubled its fines to £12.8m last year for non-compliance with FRS102 when conducting audits? A common area of non-compliance for audit firms…
UK team expands
It has been twelve months since Hedgebook’s CEO, Richard Eaddy, packed his bags and headed to London to spread the Hedgebook gospel. The success over this time has validated Hedgebook’s relevance for the UK/European market…
Featured client: BDO UK
As one of the largest accountancy firms in the UK, Hedgebook is delighted to have BDO UK using Hedgebook Audit software as its independent financial instrument valuations solution. Hedgebook Audit is a tool for auditors…
Featured Client: ALSO
As Hedgebook spreads its wings to new jurisdictions, it is appropriate that this edition of Rickshaw features a non-Australian or New Zealand company. ALSO’s head office is in Switzerland and provides a B2B market place…
Interest Rate Profile Tool
One of my favourite roles at Hedgebook is working with our awesome development team to deliver new, cool functionality for our users. Recently we have been working on the development of an interactive tool to…