Course Description
Keep Your Finger On The Financial Pulse Of Your OrganizationBehind Every Successful Organization, There's A Great Financial Manager!Your job as your organization's controller means that it's up to you to juggle people, projects, finances, budgets, and purchase...not to mention other critical duties like staying on top of state and federal regulatory agency requirements, providing complex financial data at a moment's notice, and overseeing the financial policies and direction of your organization.Managers, CEOs, CFOs, Investors, And Company Stakeholders All Depend On The Accurate Financial Data, Forecasting, Analysis, And Reporting That Controllers Provide.How can you work more effectively? Do your job more efficiently? How do other controllers at some of today's largest organizations manage their myriad of responsibilities (while keeping their sanity!)? What are the latest and greatest "best practices" you can adopt to make your own job easier?The Controller's Workshop is an intensive, fast-paced look at how to improve your day-to-day job performance by working smarter - not harder or longer (you already put in enough hours in a day!).You'll discover an incredible amount of information, ideas, how-to's, and tools for improving your accounting team's performance, enhancing your financial reporting skills, maintaining successful internal controls, monitoring cash flow, controlling costs, and much, much more.Join Your Peers For A Powerful Day Of Results-Focused Learning!This workshop is a golden opportunity for you to join other controllers who share your on-the-job responsibilities, challenges, triumphs, and frustrations. It's a day designed to deliver the training you need to streamline your processes and procedures, explore new ideas and strategies for improving productivity, and become a more effective leader, manager, and communicator.Keep Your Finger On The Financial Pulse Of Your OrganizationAs the driving force behind your organization's financial performance, it's up to you to develop and maintain the systems, policies, and procedures that ensure accurate reporting, analysis, evaluations, and asset management.Your business looks to you for financial leadership. This intensive workshop will help you tackle a broad range of financial issues head on, from monitoring controls and cash flow to advising upper management on purchases, hiring, expansion, and other areas that are directly affected by financial performance.Objectives:Evaluate your current accounting policies and procedures, and revise them if necessaryEstablish an effective internal controls frameworkUse forecasting tools to create a more accurate financial pictureUtilize pricing models to price products and servicesAccurately track costs to maintain optimum cash flowQuickly identify and mitigate fraud within your organization Agenda
Enhance Your Reputation As A First-Rate ControllerHow to use the expectations of your stakeholders to successfully define your role as controllerTips for "marketing yourself" to your organization's top executives and increasing your valueWhat CEOs and CFOs really want and expect from the controller at their organization - and learn how to give it to them!How to let non-financial staff members know what they can do to make your job easierEffective Operations: Heading Up Your Accounting TeamHow to ensure the structure of accounting operations aligns with the goals and objectives of the organization5 ways to ensure that your accounting team enjoys greater job satisfaction8 critical directives for establishing effective accounting policies and proceduresTips for identifying and capitalizing on your accounting department's strengthsDo your outsourcing contracts align with the needs of your organization? How to ensure you've chosen the right outsourcing partnerReporting: Strategies To Streamline, Organize, And Improve Performance8 keys to a faster end-of-month close3 steps that will help you become an expert on complex accounting mattersWays to safeguard and protect any judgmental accounting, reporting, and disclosure decisions you makeWhen general accounting principles aren't enough — how to use advanced analysis and forecasting tools to tell the true story of your company's health and performanceHow to accurately track costs to maintain optimum cash flowHow to use the Variance Report as a tool in building your budgetWhat you need to be aware of to price products and services accuratelyInternal Controls: How To Improve Processes And ProceduresTools, tips, and strategies for establishing a rock-solid internal control frameworkPreparation techniques that will set you up for a successful auditHow to respond appropriately to audit findings and resultsLeverage a successful audit and internal control structure to increase your worth and value to your companyFraud Identification And MitigationWho in your organization is capable of fraud? The answers may surprise you!The fraud triangle: Perceived Pressure; Rationalization; Perceived OpportunityAccounting and analytical anomalies that may indicate troubleOut-of-the-ordinary spending habits, extravagance, unusual behavior, and other employee red flags that may point to fraudulent activitiesCommunicating Effectively With Non-Financial ProfessionalsKey terms non-financial people must understand to ensure accuracy and consistency3 ways you can encourage your staff to help make your job easier and less stressfulIs there a financial "language gap" in your organization? We'll show you how to close itMethods to simplify your presentation style and create more user-friendly documents