The Job of the Chief Financial Officer in Today's Environment: Part 3 (Currently Unavailable)

Author: Miles Hutchinson

CPE Credit:  2 hours for CPAs

Gauge profitability and understand the concept and benefits of the balanced scorecard approach to the organization’s mission and goals.

Join us for a lively interactive series on the role of CFO. Discover the significant differences between the controller, treasurer, analyst and the CFO. Learn best practices to help you bridge the gap and catapult your career to the next level. Learn the techniques used by leading edge financial managers to be viewed as a key member of the top management team. From communication and leadership skills to raising capital and managing staff, customers, vendors, lenders and shareholders, this course will help ensure your success as you assume the role of CFO.

Bonus: Your registration entitles you to access to scores of important web links to help you better serve as a pivotal resource and informed decision influencer/maker in your organization

Publication Date: March 2016

Designed For
Accounting Managers, Controllers and those who aspire to become the Chief Financial Officer.

Topics Covered

  • Concept and benefits of the balanced scorecard approach to implementing the organization's mission and goals
  • Gauge profitability with economic metrics like ROIC, WACC, EVA™
  • Relate the economic metrics to the capital budgeting and M&A process

Learning Objectives

  • Identify, define and clarify the role of the Chief Financial Officer
  • Identify reporting tools to use in Excel by clicking the Data ribbon
  • Recognize how to raise Economic Value added (EVA) in a company to improve capital utilization
  • Differentiate the steps toward high-performance roadmap to align strategy with process structure
  • Identify techniques to avoid when developing a Performance Dashboard when conducting interview processes that work or do not work
  • Recognize the four strategic themes of the Balanced Scorecard applying to the management of short-term and long-term productivity in delivering quality products
  • Identify the strategic measurements representing a leading indicator int he case of Metro Bank's balanced scorecard
  • Differentiate the safest response to the first two steps after making a sale forecast and engaging in a sensitivity analysis
  • Identify tools to enable you to create a simulation model
  • Identify adequate rate of return to entice investor to purchase stock in a company
  • Recognize how to interpret results in critical evaluation of Economic Value Added (EVA)
  • Describe monitor key business process and measure the overall success of your organization's strategy when engaging in a Business Performance Management (BPM) intitiative
  • Recognize the leading indicators determining the measuring key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Identify the development phase to use when introducing KPI dashboards to your company for the first time
  • Recognize whether or not to proceed when implementing a Performance Dashboard
  • Differentiate Performance Dashboards and Balanced Scorecard
  • Identify the requirements of using a Balanced Scorecard

Level
Intermediate

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
The Job of the Chief Finance Officer in Today's Environment: Part 1 and 2

Advance Preparation
None

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