CFO Series - October 2022 Webinar Bundle Webinar

Week 1 - Determine why a superior cost knowledge will provide your company a competitive advantage.

Week 2 - Determine how to connect with your stakeholders who do not have a financial background and apply skills to communicate ideas that break down the financial and math literacy barriers.

Week 3 - Successfully use metrics to improve your organization's performance.

Week 4 - Reconstruct the never-ending changes that occur daily into opportunities and enhance your adaptability to thrive in a world of change.

Week 1: CFO Series-Contemporary Cost Concepts

CPE: 2

Field of Study: Accounting

Discussion Leader: John L. Daly, MBA, CPA, CMA, CPIM Executive Education, Inc.

Date: 10/07/2022

Description: Bad cost analysis leads to bad decision making. Traditional cost accounting provides the average cost of an average product, produced in an average volume and sold to an average customer. Traditional techniques can be disastrously inaccurate when trying to understand products that are not average in every way. This session explains activity-based costing and why it gives your company a competitive advantage.

Week 2: CFO Series-Communicating Financial Info to Non-Accountants

CPE: 2

Field of Study: Accounting

Discussion Leader: Robert Mims, The Knowledge Institute

Date: 10/14/2022

Description: Do you ever get blank looks when you present your company's financial statements? Does your board nod knowingly, during your presentation, but never seem to have any meaningful questions? It could be that they have no idea what you are talking about and are just pretending to understand!  Learn how to connect with your CEO, board, fellow managers, and ordinary employees so they understand your message.  Learn to motivate them to action. Come hear a veteran CFO tell you how.

Week 3: CFO Series-Driving Performance with Metrics

CPE: 2

Field of Study: Accounting

Discussion Leader: Brian Maturi, MBA The Knowledge Institute

Date: 10/21/2022

Description: Do you struggle to keep budgets current in the face of an ever-changing business climate? Do you recognize that actual spending can be far from what a department's spending should be? Twenty-first century performance metrics reduce work, reduce politics, provide flexibility and substantially improve the performance management process. This valuable session will show you how to drive organizational performance using these powerful techniques.

Week 4: CFO Series-Change: Prepare for the Inevitable

CPE: 2

Field of Study: Business Management & Organization

Discussion Leader: Don Minges, MBA The Knowledge Institute

Date: 10/28/2022

Description: We see change every day, so we ignore change as a key risk. Even though change is natural, it is also natural for humans to fight change. Why do humans think we can control everything? Learn more about how we can become better at recognizing change and how we can embrace and adapt to the many changes we will see soon.

Change is inevitable. We can adapt to change or be replaced. We will review practical insights that will help you be even more successful in the office and in life. Effective leaders should not miss this course.