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
