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Shorten Month-End Closing Best Practices (Z2-423)

200 Minutes
On demand - Video

On Demand - Video

4 CPE Credits in AA

OVERVIEW

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.

BENEFITS

  • Gain ideas that will help your organization perform it's month-end closing faster, better and cheaper.

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

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Some month-end closing experience is helpful

INSTRUCTOR

John Daly

John L. Daly, CPA, M.B.A., CMA, CPIM

Executive Education, Inc.

John L. Daly, M.B.A., CPA, CMA, CPIM, is a Chelsea, Michigan-based management consultant specializing in costing, pricing strategy and pricing model development. He has taught continuing professional education courses since 1995. 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 authored, Pricing for Profitability published by Wiley and Sons.

PRICING

$116.00 - Member

$136.00 - Nonmember

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COURSE DEVELOPER

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