Fixing Your Chart of Accounts Webinar

Jul 16
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Online

1-A&A
CPE Credits

A well-organized chart of accounts supports robust responsibility reporting, makes it easy to answer "what if?" questions and helps eliminate data entry errors. However, many organizations cling to the primitive practices of a half-century ago that impose barriers to developing budgets, holding people accountable, gathering useful data and keeping errors from creeping into their financial statements. Best practices today look little like the examples you may have seen in business school. If you sense that your general ledger could do far more, this session will show you how to fix your problems This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Highlights

Current Chart of Accounts Best Practices

Why developing a chart of accounts begins with studying your organizational chart
How to identify your account segments
Determining the order of your account segments
Best practices for numbering account bases
How to avoid memorization

Fixing Your Current Chart of Accounts

How big company and small company software differs
Two key approaches for preserving your historical data
What to know when making major chart of accounts changes

Registration

PICPA Member: $49
Nonmember: $74

More Information

Course No. EEJDFCA1

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Some real work experience working with General Ledger Systems

Speaker(s)

John Daly

Executive Education Inc

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