The Strategic Aspects of Financial Management:
Financial Reporting as a Value-Added Process Training Class

Program Agenda:
The New Corporate Challenge - Enhancing Shareholder Value
As the world continues to evolve, so must the perspective of financial management. The post-Enron, post-Andersen financial community is viewed from a different perspective by our internal customers and corporate stakeholders. This section provides an overview of the strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of today's global business entity. During this session, participants develop their specific learning objectives for the program, and gain an understanding long-term perspective today's world-class financial groups must possess.

The Annual Report: Reflections of the Past - Focus on the Future
The Annual Report provides two very different perspectives of the company. What has occurred, and what may occur in the future. This critical section will make you look at financial reporting from a new and different perspective; the shareholders' and stakeholders'. As financial professionals, we need to understand the concerns and information requirements of our internal and external customers.

Development of Effective Internal Financial Reports
Today's pace of business requires operating management to make key decisions on a rapid and timely basis. This sections will present several approaches to providing them with financial information that directly supports their decision requirements in a language thay can comprehend.

The New Budeting Process
This section will present several new and timely approahces to the budgeting process. Operating management needs to express their resource needs in a manner thay can both understand and control.