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Webcast - Best Practices in Finance & Accounting 2012 (4 Hours)

Overview:

Keeping up with the latest best practices is challenging. Understanding how they may apply to your organization and how they interrelate is imperative! To make your finance and accounting world class, you need to use a cross-functional approach. In this unique webcast, you’ll learn how to:

Execute your organization’s strategies and reach your goals by optimizing finance and accounting processes across all functions
Select and prioritize best practices
Evaluate potential costs and benefits and make the right decisions

Times: 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Objective:

To arm accounting professionals with an arsenal of best practices now being applied by today's leading organizations. You'll discover many practices you can employ immediately with little or no cost, as well as ones that require advanced technologies but can pay off quickly. You'll learn how to challenge traditional accounting paradigms and prioritize the practices that will work best for your organization.

Emphasis:

Expanding e-payables, e-receivables and e-payments
Applying a Lean methodology to accounting, control and measurement
Evaluating the benefits and risks of cloud computing
Developing a human capital financial statement/advanced metrics
Aligning the back to front offices with a financial service center mindset
Reporting a balanced scorecard
Aligning working capital to the supply chain
Maximizing deployment of various payment cards
Optimizing inventory investments
Streamlining the financial close
Deploying shared service centers
Consolidating, outsourcing and offshoring benefits vs. challenges

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Prerequisite:

None.

Preparation:

No advance preparation required.

Level of Knowledge:

Overview.

NASBA Field of Study:

Accounting

CPE Credit:

2 Hours

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