CGMA Essentials (158)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Executive Effectiveness: How to Be the Most Effective Leader in Your Business

Speaker: Mary Engel, Founder and CEO, The Management Coach

Increase your influence on strategic and operational decisions impacting your organisation.

Navigating the Fraud Landscape

Speaker: James Grimes, CIA, CFE, MBA

This session will focus on best practices and guidance available for building your fraud program.

Women in The Profession: Motivate, Retain and Succeed

Speaker: Nina Chmura, CPA, Partner, Withum Smith and Brown

In this session we will discuss how to motivate, retain and train women in the accounting and finance professions for success.