Shorten Month-End: Closing Best Practices
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price $149.00
Non-Member Price $214.00
Overview
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. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Objectives
Gain ideas that will help your organization perform it’s month-end closing faster, better and cheaper.
Highlights
- Trends in financial statement closings including the Quick Close, Soft Close and Virtual Close
- Review and discuss information systems' headaches that slow you down
- Work through examples of close cycle "time killers" and how to resolve them
- Get inventory and cost of sales under control
- Identify the improvement projects that will yield the biggest benefit
- Review what leading edge finance managers are doing to close more quickly
Designed For
Corporate Financial Managers
Prerequisites
Some month-end closing experience is helpful
Preparation
None
Notice
You will receive an email from CPA Crossings via Webex with instructions to access the webinar.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
John Daly, Executive Education, Inc.
John L. Daly, MBA, CPA, CMA, CPIM, has been a professional speaker since 1995. He seeks to make every session lively, informative and fun using a combination of case discussion, lecture and peer-to-peer interaction. John has presented in 46 states and 5 provinces on topics that include Accounting, Finance, Management, Software and Ethics. He began presenting ethics two weeks before the Enron scandal broke. John has been CFO for a Tier 1 automotiv parts supplier and a large restaurant chain and COO for a window treatments manufacturer and retailer. He is the author of Pricing for Profitability, published by Wiley & Sons, as well as numerous professional articles.
Non-Member Price $214.00
Member Price $149.00