Webcast: Shorten Month-End - Closing Best Practices
477 | Webcast | Intermediate | Scheduled
Description
Surveys show that the average North American company completes its monthly financial statement closing in six days. However, some companies can close their books in one day or less. You don't have to sacrifice accuracy for speed. This session will show you how to close month-end faster, better and cheaper.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 4.00 | Accounting |
Designed For
Corporate financial managers
Prerequisites
Some month-end closing experience is helpful
Highlights
- Trends in financial statement closings, including the quick close, soft close and virtual close
- Review and discuss information systems' headaches that slow you down
- Work through examples of close cycle "time killers" and how to resolve them
- Get inventory and cost of sales under control
- Identify the improvement projects that will yield the biggest benefit
- Review what leading-edge finance managers are doing to close more quickly
Objectives
Gain ideas that will help your organization perform its month-end closing faster, better and cheaper.
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $149.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $199.00
- Member
- $149.00
- Non-Member
- $199.00
Instructors
John L. Daly, MBA, CPA, CMA, CPIM
John L. Daly, MBA, CPA, CMA, CPIM, has been a professional speaker since 1995. He seeks to make every session lively, informative and fun using a combination of case discussion, lecture and peer-to-peer interaction. John has presented in 46 states and 5 provinces on topics that include Accounting, Finance, Management, Software and Ethics. He began presenting ethics two weeks before the Enron scandal broke.
John has been CFO for a Tier 1 automotive parts supplier and a large restaurant chain and COO for a window treatments manufacturer and retailer. He is the author of Pricing for Profitability, published by Wiley & Sons, as well as numerous professional articles.
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