Microsoft Wins Treasury Award

Microsoft has more than $1 billion in cash flowing through the company each day, so working capital management is a very important task. Recently, the company was awarded the Alexander Hamilton award by Treasury and Risk. Microsoft's working capital team worked on ways to improve cash forecasting. The team was able to reduce forecasting variances by 50 to 70 percent each month, resulting in a drop of over $200 million in the cash balances of subsidiaries.