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Friday, February 16, 2024 Live Webcast

CFO Series: Tactics to Improve Bottom Line - 1st Improve ROI (X2-42909)

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
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2 CPE Credits in SK

OVERVIEW

What do investors want? They actively pursue three key strategies; 1) improve profit (most over used strategy), 2) reduce investment (an under used strategy), and 3) reduce risk (a much-neglected strategy). In this the first of three sessions, see 1) above, we will explore successful strategies to improve pricing, increase volume, and reduce risk.

DESIGNED FOR

Corporate Financial Leaders, Corporate Financial Managers, CEOs, CFOs, Controllers, CPAs, Accountants, Board members, advisors, and Consultants. Business owners, entrepreneurs and any professional interested in enhancing the bottom line.

BENEFITS

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

  • Determine the issues that drive the bottom line
  • Identify ways to make improvement happen
  • Determine pricing for profitability, cost control and increasing throughput

    HIGHLIGHTS

    The major topics covered in this course include:
    • Introduction to the three levers - Income, Asset Utilization, and Risk.
      1. Cost control
        • Waste elimination
        • Lean, Total Quality Management, and Six Sigma.
        • Simplification - A case study in how complexity is an insidious profit killer.
        • Activity based costing.
        • Understanding what drives cost and how to control cost.
        • Accounting practices that are antithetical to good cost control.
        • Getting the message across and generating action.
        • Where are the good ideas buried?
      2. Increasing volume
        • How effective is your advertising and promotion?
        • What is your unique selling proposition?
        • Are you stifling innovation?
      3. Pricing
        • Pricing for value not cost recovery.
        • Understanding competition.
        • Looking for the 'blue ocean' opportunity.

    COURSE LEVEL

    Intermediate

    PREREQUISITES

    At least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience, or at least six (6) credit hours of corporate finance classwork at an accredited university.

    ADVANCE PREPARATION

    None

INSTRUCTOR

Brian Maturi

Brian Maturi, M.B.A., FCA
(4.6)

Brian Maturi, M.B.A., FCA has 45 years’ financial management experience in the UK and US, including five years with Deloitte Touche and 22 years with BorgWarner, Inc. where he was a divisional VP-Finance and Corporate Director of Risk Management. His favorite topics include ethics of risk management, management accounting and currency, commodity, and interest rate hedging. Brian holds a bachelor’s in Economics, an MBA and is an English Institute of Chartered Accountants fellow.

PRICING

$79.00 - Member

$99.00 - Nonmember

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