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Friday, December 8, 2017 Live

MBA in a Day! (E1712373)

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Registration: 8:00 AM EST

APA Hotel Woodbridge

120 Wood Avenue South
Iselin , NJ 08830

8 CPE Credits in MT

OVERVIEW

With knowledge in business finance and management, CPAs can better manage all aspects of their own businesses while helping their clients make more informed business and financial decisions.

DESIGNED FOR

CPAs in industry and public accounting who want to expand their knowledge of business management, finance and the principles of strategic business planning.

BENEFITS

  • Discuss the marketing process and framework for analysis
  • List and explain several organizational behavior theoretical models and how one might use them to diagnose and solve organizational problems
  • Apply quantitative or number-crunching analyses, including decision theory; time-value formulas; cash-flow analysis; capital budgeting; probability theory; and regression analysis and forecasting
  • Explain the basic mathematical relationships in portfolios and the asset-allocation concepts both in general and for various investment classes in the context of efficiency, life cycle, investment horizons and risk constraints
  • Outline and explain the problem-solving framework for operations, including the five major issues, the six Ms of production and the three principle methods of production
  • Describe the critical features of the business cycle and the use of composite economic indicators to help predict changes in the business cycle and guide business decisions
  • Compare/contrast the various assumptions and planning implications associated with various strategic planning theories and concepts

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Fundamentals of organization behavior
  • Decision-making with statistics
  • Finance – risk and return; portfolio theories; asset allocation; capital asset pricing models; financial management; the mathematics of tax leverage and tax planning; and cash flow analysis
  • Marketing principles and concepts - competitive strategies in changing markets
  • Capital budgeting and marginal investment analysis - tax-adjusted time-value analysis, IRRs, NPV and other methods to allocate scarce resources among business investment opportunities
  • Production management - capacity, scheduling, and inventory control issues
  • Macroeconomic and microeconomic concepts, the impact of business cycles and the current business environment on business plans and profitability

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

John Laschenski

John P. Laschenski, CPA

Loscalzo Associates, Ltd.

John P. Laschenski is an accountant, management consultant, and business educator based in Rochester, New York. He regularly prepares and delivers seminars on accounting, auditing, and related topics to CPAs in the United States and Canada. In addition, he consults with CPA firms and with public and private companies on accounting and auditing issues, and he also provides accounting and auditing expert witness consulting and testimony in cases involving CPA firms. For the American Management Association, he creates and leads financial and accounting seminars throughout the United States. Before founding his own CPA and consulting firm in 1981, Mr. Laschenski designed and managed the development of computer systems for the IBM Corporation and was a financial executive for the Xerox Corporation. He has been on the faculties of the Business School at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and of Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and has served for 10 years as a member of the New York State Board for Public Accountancy, the licensing and disciplinary board for CPAs in the state of New York. Mr. Laschenski holds an M.B.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology, an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.S. from Holy Cross College.

PRICING

$399.00 - Nonmember

$299.00 - Member

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