2016 - Seminar on Moving from Controller to Chief Finance Officer

Overview:
We will discuss the character, style and techniques used by leading edge CFOs to establish themselves as key members of the top management team. Learn what it takes to successfully navigate the highest position in finance. We will perform a personal SWAT analysis to help you identify the key skills and traits that will help ensure success at this level of the organization and prepare you to lead with confidence. We will discuss the major roles the CFO plays in today's fast paced organizations and help you identify ways to leverage your strengths. Discuss your toughest business challenges with your peers and receive feedback to help clarify, focus and prioritize for success.
Why should you attend?
Join us for a lively interactive series on the role of CFO. Discover the significant differences between the controller, treasurer, financial analyst and the CFO. Learn best practices to help you bridge the gap, leverage your knowledge and skills and catapult your career to the next level. Learn the techniques used by leading edge financial managers to enhance your visibility and credibility as a key member of the top management team. From communication and leadership skills to raising capital and managing staff, customers, vendors, lenders and shareholders, this course will help ensure your success as you assume the role of CFO.
Areas Covered in the Session:
? Identify the key v. ancillary roles of the CFO function
? Learn to manage the pressures to take responsibility for too many functions
? Identify your prominent communication traits and leverage this knowledge to obtain the best results from every meeting, phone call, and email
? Equip yourself to handle every managerial challenge before it comes up
? Get familiar with the best tools for performing risk assessments and help all of your business leaders sharpen their mitigation skills
? Identify the various regulatory challenges and how to stay in compliance more efficiently
? The CFO knows how the company is doing often before anyone else. Learn how to leverage this knowledge with the leadership team and help them sharpen their business management skills
? Best practices for leveraging technology
? Provide the right reports to the right people at the right time
? Lead through development of your balanced scorecard to help leadership visualize and drive strategic decision making
? Evaluate your options for raising capital (debt and equity)
? Gain insight into M&A opportunities and risks
? Understand your company's key financial drivers beginning with their weighted average cost of capital and return on invested capital
? Help business leaders identify best opportunities for outstanding operating performance with Economic Value Added? and discounted cash flow techniques
? Use cash flow ratios to identify true operational risks and value
? Round table discussion - how to leverage treasury to improve cash flow
? Know your tax exposures - beyond income and withholding taxes
? Apply internal control evaluation methods to help manage risk and protect the company against fraud
? Use the fraud examiner's report semi-annual report to reduce fraud risk in your company
? Publicly traded? Understand your obligation to provide comfort letters to your investors
? Round table discussion - how important is sound ethical behaviour to your company
Who will benefit:
? Recently Crowned CFOs
? Corporate, Divisional and Plant Controllers
? Assistant Controllers; Chief Accountants; Budget Directors
? Finance and Accounting Managers; Financial Analysts; Accountants
? Auditors who Need to Understand the Corporate Accounting cycle to Audit more Effectively
Agenda:
Day 1:
Lecture 1: Overview and Functions of the CFO
Lecture 2: Customizing the role and scope of the CFO function
Lecture 3: Leadership and communication
Lecture 4: Managing human capital
Lecture 5: Risk management
Lecture 6: Regulatory compliance
Lecture 7: Finance as a strategic business partner
Lecture 8: Leverage the ever expanding technological shift
Lecture 9: Dashboard Reporting
Lecture 10: Balanced Scorecards
Lecture 11: Financing growth: strategies for raising capital
Day 2:
Lecture 1: Mergers and acquisitions
Lecture 2: Forecasting with discounted cash flows
Lecture 3: Stress test your company and the competition using cash flow statement analytics
Lecture 4: Treasury - managing risk
Lecture 5: Managing working capital
Lecture 6: Credit and collections
Lecture 7: Vendor management
Lecture 8: Tax issues for the CFO
Lecture 9: Internal Control under Sarbanes-Oxley
Lecture 10: Financial reporting under Sarbanes-Oxley
Lecture 11: Corporate Ethics
Speaker:
Miles Hutchinson
President, Sales Tax Advisors, Inc.
Miles Hutchinson is a CGMA and experienced businessman. He has been an auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Chief Financial Officer of a one billion dollar real estate development company. Miles is a professional speaker and consultant who has presented over 2,500 seminars and training sessions on a myriad of business and financial topics, like financial analysis and modeling, accounting, strategic planning, and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He is recognized as an expert in payroll and sales & use tax as well as financial modeling & analysis, business strategy and communications. He is the author of several useful accounting and tax tools available at www.soxpolicies.com and www.salestaxadvisors.com. His clients include, Abbott Labs, Honda, Bank of America, Boston Scientific, Citicorp, Corning, the FBI, the FDA, the Federal Reserve, FTD Florists, GE, Kaman Aerospace, Mitsubishi, Pfizer, Siemens, US Marine Corps, the US Army and many others. Please visit his web sites to see how you can further benefit from his expertise.
Location: Washington, DC Date: August 4th & 5th, 2016 Time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Venue: Courtyard Arlington Crystal City/Reagan National Airport
Address: 2899 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 USA
Price: $1,095.00 (Seminar fee for One Delegate)
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