Practical Tips For Controllers & CFOs

Overview

This course provides over two hundred useful and unusual tips for accountants in financial leadership. These non-technical tips are illustrated through concrete examples derived from practical experience. You won’t find these tips in courses or text books, but you’ll be able to use many of them. It provides specific opportunities for bench-marking your practices with those of your peers.

Highlights

• Key Indicator Reporting • People Management Tips • Innovative Negotiation Ideas • The Fast Close • Extra Creative Thinking for Accountants • Auditors & Lawyers: Minimizing Costs • Financial Reporting • Straight Talk on Ethics • Critical Steps when You Change Jobs • Useful Technology Tips • Getting the Most Out of Your Bank • Cash Flow Crisis: What to do When it Happens • Working with Cost-Saving Consultants

Designed For

The course is aimed at Controllers and CFOs and accountants in leadership positions, as well as those in public practice or consulting, who advise clients. It is also helpful for financial analysts and accountants moving toward senior leadership roles. Because of the wide range of topic coverage, most accountants would benefit from this seminar, unless they are pure specialists, i.e. forensic, tax, IT, bankruptcy or valuations or audit.

Objectives

• Identify key indicators to measure a business • Determine people management techniques that apply • Match negotiating approaches with situations • Identify critical steps when changing jobs • Select creative thinking options to solve problems • Identify fast close methodologies • State methods of reducing legal and audit costs • Recall useful technology tips • Recognize the application of useful financial reporting tips • Outline ethical approaches in ethically challenging situations