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Leading the Shift: Leadership for Financial Professionals in the 21st Century

Speaker: Jeff Nischwitz, JD, Facilitator of Truth, The Nischwitz Group, Avon Lake, OH

Learn new communication and accountability tools, team engagement and alignment strategies, and tactics to improve execution, influence and impact.

Setting OKRs and KPIs: Measuring What Matters

Speaker: Brett Knowles

The why, what, how (and how often) of OKRs and KPIs. We’ll cover both strategic and performance-related measurements in this video.

CGMA Essentials

CGMA Essentials gives you 12 months of unlimited access to a library of recorded webinars and conference sessions. Examining the industry’s hottest topics, technical skills and career development essentials.

Future of Finance and the Implications on the FP&A Function

Speakers: Ash Noah, CPA, FCMA, CGMA, Vice President, CGMA External Relations, AICPA; Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, CPA, CGMA, Global Accounting Strategy Director/Chairman, Oracle America/Association Board of Directors, Annapolis, MD

Digital disruption is making current business models obsolete and organisations have no option but to leverage technology and data in order to transform or become a casualty. The finance function faces unprecedented challenges and must drive its own transformation agenda to adopt a new business model and help drive business transformation. Speakers will share research and insights on the impact of technology on the finance function of the future and the imperative for organizations to adopt a new operating model for finance.

Power BI

Speakers: Chris Ortega; Rob Collie

Microsoft has quietly been turbocharging Excel by integrating industrial-strength business intelligence and reporting engines into it.

When Excel-Based Analytics Detect Fraud

Speaker: Rich Lanza, CPA, CFE, CGMA

Learn to reduce fraud using data analytic surveillance. This audio session focuses on simple techniques to minimize risk in key areas, which can be executed using Excel-based analytics.

PowerPivot: Excel’s Hidden Feature Will Change Your Life and Career

Speaker: Rob Collie

There are some incredible business intelligence and reporting features tucked away inside the latest Excel. You should be using them right now – this video course shows you how.

Office 365 and Excel for Analysts

Speaker: Joseph McDaid, CA

In this session, attendees will learn about some new and existing analytics features provided by Microsoft Excel.

Prevent Cyber-Attacks: What Accounting Professionals Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Foster, CISA, CISSP, PCI CSA

Accounting professionals depend upon technology to practice their profession. It is tragic that unauthorized individuals, and even organizations, focus their efforts on obtaining access to the sensitive information that is entrusted to you. However, there are a few important and inexpensive steps that add powerful protection into your systems.

Blockchain 101

This session will provide an overview of blockchain technology and discuss the most relevant examples of how the technology is changing the accounting industry.