Faster financial closing

SPECIAL OFFER PRICE FOR ICAS MEMBERS: £245 + VAT

Non-member price for Online Live: £320 + VAT

Non-member price in England: £634 + VAT

Please note, due to differences regarding external costs, courses outside of Scotland are priced separately. ICAS members are eligible for a discounted price on all courses running in England & Wales.

Timing Online Live: 9.30am-4.30pm
Timing London: 9.00am-5.00pm

What you will learn

• Find out how you can significantly improve the reporting timetable within your organisation while maintaining the quality of information being provided.
• Examine the process, technology and cultural change issues which will have to be addressed.
• Analyse the benefits which can be realised by those organisations that have managed to reduce appreciably their reporting timescales.
• Gain an insight, through case studies, into how leading organisations have radically re-engineered their closing process.

Who should attend

Financial managers, accountants and controllers responsible for the closing process, particularly those from larger organisations or whose closing processes are time consuming and/or inefficient.

Outline

• Why is faster financial closing needed? Current and future trends in reporting.
• What makes financial closing complex?
• Why do quick fix solutions rarely work?
• What is current best practice?
• The benefits of faster financial closing.
• How to improve the closing process in your organisation
• An overview of project management, design and timing.
• Process redesign.
• Software for improved financial closing.
• People and change management issues.

Questions?

BPP | Tel: 0330 060 3303 | Email: ldicas@bpp.com