Mastering Finance & Accounting Skills: Best Practices in Finance and Accounting

INTRODUCTION

• Focus on real companies and their finance function and accounting processes to show participants which elements have achieved best practices status
• Will remove much of the mystique associated with the management of finance and accounting
• Focuses on challenging you to become the strategic financial leaders of the organization
• Prepare yourself for future responsibilities by examining best practices in these important functions/processes

• Financial and non-financial professionals who wish to test their high performance and high potential knowledge, skills and attitudes with other similar individuals
• Anyone who wishes to reinforce their knowledge of financial functions/processes and who require a more integrative financial view

• Identify best practices for the roles of CFO, controller, treasurer, and accountants in the content of, and relationships between, financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows)
• Discuss best practices in the use of financial statements to evaluate the financial / strategic performance of an organization
• Understand best practices in discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision-making
• Identify best practices in corporate performance management using key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in various industry sectors
• Understand best practices in how EVA® (Economic Value Added), SVA (Shareholder Value Added), and RI (Residual Income) can be used to value competing strategies
• Define best practices in the value creation/destruction process in mergers and acquisitions from the market perspective and signals to management from the market
• Clarify best practices in the roles of directors, auditors, and others in their respective roles in corporate governance
• Identify best practices in the various sources of financial and business data that provide insights into business and financial strategies
• Identify best practices in the details of financial control, risk management, and financial reporting from the perspectives of the internationally recognized professional associations such as IFAC, IASB, SEC, OECD, and others
• Enhance personal networks of similarly minded high potential managers

• Encourages best and brightest Professionals to stretch themselves by benchmarking best practices in finance and accounting
• Provides opportunities for testing key assumptions of managing finance and control
• Enhances organizational networks by developing and using best practices
• Builds practical problem solving skills for immediate use to identify and implement best practices in finance and accounting
• Improves recognition and implementation of best practice financial management principles

• Personal life-long learning philosophy enhanced and clarified
• Permits testing of best practices in different elements
• Builds benchmarking of financial and analytical skills in a complex and changing environment
• Increased self-confidence with a higher level of humility (emotional intelligence) regarding managing financial functions/processes
• Long lasting relationships built for future conversations and sounding boards

• The role of financial management - CFO, Treasurer, and Controller
• The role of functional management in respect to financial management
• The basic financial statements and their articulation
• Evaluating performance and why ROI is still a good place to start
• Competitive perspectives related to financial statements
• Best practices in preparing, presenting, and populating financial statements
• Identifying key success factors in industry sectors
• Deriving lessons learned from Module one

• Short-term success evaluations process and measures
• Weak signals for future strategic adjustments
• Buy, sell, or hold investments
• Best practices in financial review compared to targets and expectations
• Financial performance measurement systems
• Best practices in finding and using key accounting assumptions
• Compare business system to financial results
• Deriving lessons learned from Module two

• Best practices in annual reports using GAAP, IFRS, or other standards
• Role of exchange commissions and social policy
• Best practices in reconciling accounting standards and reporting
• Best practices in examining corporate governance and shareholder value as well as stakeholder value
• Benchmarking external reviews, industry reports, and analyst reports
• Best practices in boards of directors and their move to financial literacy
• Benchmarking shareholder value measures
• Deriving lessons learned from Module three

• Best practices in asking financial managers to guide the understanding of an industry sector with ratios and other financial statements
• Benchmarking treasury management - cash, FOREX, working capital, and CAPEX
• Best practices in controllership - planning, control, costing, and profitability
• Benchmarking value creation from the controllership function
• Finding best practices in non-financial inputs to financial statements
• Learning best practices for the cash to capital to cash (Karl Marx) and how to leave an industry sector
• Activity based costing, time-based costing, and competence based costing and financial analysis
• Deriving lessons learned from Module 4

• Best practices in NPV as the ultimate decision criterion
• Benchmarking the use of real options as a next generation best practice
• Presenting and communicating to executive audiences the best practices in finance and accounting
• Demonstrating next generation model building
• Challenging the finance function to best practices
• What applications of lessons learned in Best Practices in Finance and
• Accounting are applicable in your company and in your markets
• What personal learning plans have been made to continue Best Practices in Finance and Accounting

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