Advanced Controller and CFO Skills (ACCS)

Date: 11/25/2008
Fargo Holiday Inn
Time: 8:15 AM - 4:00 PM (Please verify this time on your confirmation.)
8 CPE Hours
$250 Member ($220 AICPA member)
$300 Nonmember ($270 AICPA member)
Add $25 after 11/11/2008
Instructor: Frank Ryan

If you want to be secure in your position as the “financial sheriff,” you must be able to document your worth to the company’s leaders by exhibiting the critical advanced skills that help you add value and contribute to the success of the organization. In this advanced course, you will experience the ten critical skills that will help you add value to your company and boost your career so you quickly move to the next level of accomplishment. Learn how to translate your firm’s strategies with key performance. Improve your skills in the five key areas needed for success. Employ the balanced performance measuring scorecard. Align your firm’s strategies with your internal reporting system. Become an advocate for your team while you develop into a powerful agent of change.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Display best practices of leading edge Controllers and CFOs
• Employ a balanced approach to your firm’s measures of success
• Develop into a powerful agent or catalyst for positive change.
• Ensure that your strategies are in alignment with the organization’s mission
• Translate your firm's strategies with key performance metrics
• Employ the balanced performance measuring scorecard
• Become an advocate and coach for your team
• Develop a tailored action plan suitable for your specific needs

Major Topics:

• Development of measurable mission and strategies
• Application of the Balanced Scorecard
• Aligning your firm’s strategies with its internal reporting system
• Selling your ideas and a way that generates buy-in by others
• Recognition of and response to the need for constant change and adaptation
• The 6 ½ key steps that you will find invaluable to your employer

Designed For: Controllers and CFOs with at least four years of experience and the desire to expand in their role
Level: Advanced
Developer: AICPA
Prerequisite: Basic or Beginning Controllers course in lieu of experience

About the Speaker:
Francis X. Ryan, CPA
Semper Finance Inc./Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Frank Ryan is president of a management consulting firm specializing in turnarounds, workouts, crisis management, strategic planning and working capital management. He has extensive experience working with banks in negotiating forbearance agreements, loan workouts, capital restructurings, vendor negotiations and bank lending requirements. Prior to his consulting business, Mr. Ryan was the chief operating officer of a mid-sized manufacturing company. Additionally, he is the chairman of the Audit Committees of two publicly traded companies and has extensive board level experience in the for-profit and non-profit arenas. He also serves on the board of a publicly traded bank. He is a retired Colonel in the United States Marine Corps, and has served in numerous contingency operations to include Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He received the "Outstanding AICPA Instructor" award in 1994-95 and again in 2005-06.