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Earn up to 18 CPE Credits
CFO Conferences is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
(NASBA)
as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of
accountancy
have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered
sponsors may
be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN,
37219-2417;
Website: www.nasba.org.
Delivery Method: Group-Live
Program Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Two
years
experience as a corporate finance manager. For more information regarding refund, complaint and cancellation
policies,
contact CFO Conferences at (888) 767-5924 or (617) 345-9700, ext. 218.
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| 101 Radical Value Creation: A CFOs Guide to Driving Profitability and Shareholder Value |
Speaker:
Jonathan Hornby, Director, World Wide Marketing, Performance Management, SAS
Jack Alexander, Former CFO; President, Value Advisory Group, LLC; Lecturer, Babson College; and Author of Performance Dashbards and Analysis for Value Creation
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Focus:
The CFO is the catalyst for organizational improvement, and performance management is a strategy leading CFOs rely on to manage and improve performance. Research and examples abound, however, of most companies still failing to achieve maximum results. One reason lies in the design and execution of the strategies themselves. In this workshop, Jack Alexander, former CFO turned Babson professor and consultant will host an interactive, high-impact session moderated by SAS’ Jonathan Hornby. From Alexander’s first-hand experience and Hornby’s work with CFOs around the world, attendees will learn how to create radical value for their organizations, as well as radical models for their own successes — by realizing performance management’s potential.
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Take Away:
Workshop attendees are guaranteed to walk away with an understanding of:
• The key drivers of value, and how to maximize them.
• Linking these value drivers to operating processes, activities and measures.
• Those critical internal and external factors that most impact organizations, and how to proactively manage
them to simultaneously reduce risk and optimize opportunities.
• How to accomplish true organizational alignment.
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| 102 Improving Data Driven Decision-Making through Next Generation Business Intelligence Software |
Speaker:
Johan Eriksson, Group Controller, QlikTech, Inc.
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Focus:
The role of today’s financial executives is more complex than ever. In a time of intense regulatory scrutiny, they are called upon to drive strategic change while still performing core accounting and reporting duties effectively and efficiently. Financial executives are especially challenged to assess the cross departmental efforts of operations, sales, marketing, engineering, and information technology to ensure that capital and operating expenses are yielding the intended results. This session will discuss how next generation of business intelligence software can be leveraged by financial executives to flexibly analyze corporate information and improve data driven decision-making via dashboards with drill-down capabilities. Specifically, innovations in BI software using in-memory associative technology empower business users to build sophisticated and visual analysis and reporting solutions that are fast to develop, deploy, use, and easy to maintain
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Take Away:
Financial executives will leave with a better understanding on how a new and simplified approach to business intelligence can be used to more effectively tackle the complex nature of their roles. In addition, attendees will see strategies on how to quickly and cost effectively implement BI tools on top of existing ERP systems to improve their operations.
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| 103 Implementing Effective IT Costing and Shared Services Charging |
Speaker:
Steve McHugh, Director, EPM Marketing , Business Objects
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Focus:
This session is for Finance and IT executives who are tasked with gaining a better understanding of IT costs and the true financial benefit that IT group delivers across the organization. This session focuses on how Finance and IT, working together, can deliver a better level of financial information to the C-level suite as well as the departments that may be receiving cross-charges from IT for services provided.
• Businesses talk the language of dollars, cost and profitability. The Board of Directors, the CEO, and the CFO need to understand what IT is delivering to the business in terms that the rest of the business understands — dollars.
• The IT organization is being pressed to better understand its own internal cost structure and how it charges other business units for services provided.
• When IT charges other departments for services rendered, these department look to IT for financial drill-down information and better understanding of the costs incurred. If IT fails to deliver that information to its customer, then the situation can become adversarial.
• By understanding their costs and effectively working with the rest of the organization, IT and Finance can rapidly shift roles from that of service provider to the organization to trusted strategic business advisor.
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Take Away:
Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of how IT costs can be measured and communicated across the organization. They will gain an understanding of how to effectively and reasonably cross-charge other business units for services provided. And, they will leave with insight that helps both Finance and IT further evolve their roles as strategic business advisors to the departments that they serve.
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