CFO Series: Closing Best Practices: Shorten Month End Webinar

Dec 3
11:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Online

2-A&A
CPE Credits

Surveys show that the average North American company completes its monthly financial statement closing in six days. However, some companies can close their books in one day or less. You don’t have to sacrifice accuracy for speed. This session will show you how to close month-end faster, better and cheaper. In the 2021 CFO series, The Knowledge Institute has taken this popular series to a new level, collaborating with Executive Education to offer a virtual live option to enhance learning experiences.

Learning Objectives:
After attending this presentation you will be able to...

  • Deploy ideas that will allow your department to produce financial statements faster, better and more cheaply. 
  • Recognize activities that take too much time


Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

  • Trends in financial statement closings including the Quick Close, Soft Close and Virtual Close
  • Review and discuss information system's headaches that slow you down
  • Work through examples of close cycle “time killers” and how to resolve them
  • Identify the improvement projects that will yield the biggest benefit
  • Review what leading edge finance managers are doing to close more quickly

Registration

PICPA Member: $79
Nonmember: $104

More Information

Course No. EEJDCCB2 Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Some month end closing experience is helpful

Notes
This webinar is hosted by PICPA's partner, CPA Crossings, LLC. After registering, you will receive an email from messenger@webex.com with the log-in information.

Speaker(s)

John Daly