September 

Advanced Profit Enhancements

September 06, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

This four-topic event focuses on three separate, proven tactics to increase profitability, including cost reductions, revenue enhancements, reducing investment, avoiding waste, and taking a more integrated look at avoiding risk. The focus is simple—getting the most bang for the buck with proven approaches to increase profitability and to improve the organization.

Management Superpowers

September 16, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

We all aspire to be great managers, even with management superpowers. We will discuss how, specifically what, you can do to improve your management skills. The best leaders have a never-ending passion to improve and acquire useful knowledge. Management skills can be learned, but only if one is willing to do the work.

October 

Big Picture Mega-Trends & Risks

October 01, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

This four-topic event focuses on skills that will help you and your organization become more effective dealing with several major trends impacting our business environment, new currencies, risk, office politics, and the value of ethics. Prepare for the coming changes that will affect every organization.

Planning for the Long Term

October 21, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

This four-topic event focuses on skills that will help you and your organization enhance your planning skills, improve innovation to thrive, provide two newer metrics to improve decision making, and accounting for lean.

November 

Chief Reviewer

 November 08, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

 Every financial professional must review. We review processes, systems, test results, performance, taxes, financials, timelines, and progress. The spotlight is to enhance our skills as a reviewer. Are we great at listening and asking the right questions? At every level, we are responsible for reviewing and improving ourselves, a responsibility that never ends. We cannot fall behind in an ever-changing, dynamic environment. Technology is always moving forward, just as we should.

The Effective CFO

November22, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

Whether you are a seasoned CFO or a staff professional, we all want to enhance our skills and become more effective. We discuss four methods to improve, including getting the most from the sales function, how CFOs can (and should) deliver much more value, new skills to develop, and how to find the time to do this? We also review the value of sustainability, ESG reporting, and measurement. A newer technique that adds value to our role so we can become even more effective. 

December 

Employees Today & Tomorrow

December 05, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

The war for talent is ongoing. We review four topics: concentrating on today’s employment realities, getting the most from your team, how to attract and retain talent, how utilizing the employment life cycle can deliver better performance, and how re-invigorating careers (yours and others) can make our professional role easier and deliver better financials. The cost of “mismanagement” is huge, and we discuss tactics to help you and your colleagues improve. You and your team can do better, and we will discuss how.

Today’s Staff Retention & Accounting

December 20, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern

This four-topic event focuses on skills that will help you and your organization become more effective, including today’s methods to retain key employees, e.g., equity compensation plans, inventory accounting, and timeless lessons from great leaders to improve the organization.