Controller’s Workshop: Learn Best Practices
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: David Sanders
Webinar Description
A controller’s job has changed! Knowing the numbers inside and out isn’t good enough anymore. The demands on a modern enterprise, including rapid integration of multi-departmental financial and operational data, have resulted in the corporate controller’s role becoming multi-dimensional.
Today a controller is expected to be an auditor; analyst; business partner; business advisor; cost accountant; omniscient budgeter; number cruncher extraordinaire; management accountant; revenue-stream manager; and, yes, a bean counter. To stay effective as a controller and add greater value to your organization, you must keep your core knowledge and skill sets up-to-date, as well as gaining proficiency in all aspects of your enterprise.
This 90 minute webinar will help new and experienced controllers in any organization recognize and effectively engage with the current demands of this vital business function. And, you’ll discover how to improve your impact in different areas such as strategic, tactical, operational, financial, and regulatory risk.
If you want to learn the latest strategies and best practices of the controller’s job, then you won’t want to miss this webinar.
Agenda
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the expanded, critical controller’s role in today’s business environment
- Effectively communicate with others within the organization
- Accomplish the controller’s role in strategic planning
- Manage and protect company assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls
- Practice the art of forecasting
- Better use the budgeting process
- Answer the most important budgeting decision: are you going budget from the top down or the bottom up?
- Evaluate and develop the capital budget
- Appreciate the importance of written policies and procedures
- Document important processes and procedures
- Identify and get rid of unneeded documentation Â
- Identify the objectives and responsibility for internal controls
- Identify the various types of fraud
- Manage the objectives and activities of internal audit
- Prioritize and manage time
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
What is a webinar?
A webinar is a live Internet based seminar. Webinars are a way for participants in many different locations to see and hear a presentation and view PowerPoint slides. You can also have your colleagues attend the webinar using one connection.
What kind of equipment do I need?
You will need a computer with an Internet connection (high speed service such as DSL or cable works best) and a telephone. You may listen to the webinar through your computer speakers, in which case you will not need to use a telephone connection. Internet access is not required for phone-only participants, but you will not be able to see the speaker’s slides.
How can I share the webinar with my colleagues who may not be able to attend the event?
CDs of each program will be available for sale and can be shared with your business associates.
Can I get a copy of the PowerPoint slides used in the webinar?
The PowerPoint slides will be available on the materials page link in the confirmation email that will be sent to you no later than the morning of the day a webinar is presented.
How do I ask a question during the webinar? Will my question be answered during the presentation?
A question and answer session will be scheduled at the end of each webinar. You can then ask a question by typing it into the question box that will be provided to you duringthe webinar. You may also ask a question through the telephone connection. As many questions as possible will be answered during the Question and Answer period.