This course provides more than 200 useful and unusual veteran tips to help you in your work, and is Part 1 of a two part course.
This course provides more than 200 tips to help you at work.
As a finance leader, you are expected to be able to deal with a myriad of issues and situations. You have your experience and what you learned from colleagues and mentors, but this course will provide you with many more veteran tips, including many unconventional ones. You won’t find these tips in most courses or textbooks, but you’ll be able to use many of them. Over 9,000 accountants have taken the course, so you don’t want to fall behind them.
This is Part 1 of the two-part course.
The following professionals will benefit from this course: Controllers, CFOs, directors of finance, treasurers, and accounting managers. In addition, it is helpful for people moving toward these roles. Consultants and public accountants have historically been 10-15% of the audience and also enjoy it.
AGENDA
• Straight talk on ethics in the real world • Improve the insight provided by your financial reporting • The finance headcount benchmark revealed • More creative thinking for accountants – get outside the box • A different angle on the role of finance • Cost-cutting tips • The finance headcount benchmark revealed
PAST FEEDBACK
• I can tell you this is the most interesting course I have followed on the CPA portal,… and I have roughly 30 years of experience. You have very good communication skills and you have a bright sense of humour • You were covering pretty much all a controller or CFO have to know do to a good job. It is always inspiring to see a real CFO telling real tips to cause he have been hands on during several years as you shown on your course • I really appreciated the concrete examples, it is easier to relate to. I also appreciated the jokes. • I found it very refreshing to have some insights on how I could improve my "game". A lot of topics you bring up are aspects of our daily life at work but are not thought of at university or CPA program. • I've enjoyed the delivery speed of your course and it kept my attention all the way through. I liked your hands-on and concrete approach • I wish I knew some of these tips before, e.g. conversion tips, and I would probably implement others, like a one-page dashboard. • I find it very interesting and not the typical CPA online course! • I like how it's different and feels like it's more practical for day-to-day work, especially as an entrepreneur. • Topics I particularly enjoyed: Ethics and integrity, banking • The mix of tips with actual life experiences made the course enjoyable. • Thank you for providing so many practical tips! It’s fun to learn through lots of stories!
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Courses for Accountants. Stephen is also the Vice-President, Finance & CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc. In addition, he is a Board member, co-owner and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx group of companies, a global aviation business, which he was the CFO for 12 years previously. An engaging and experienced instructor, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses which have been attended by over 36,000. When speaking, he is candid about errors he has made in his career and the lessons that can be learned from them. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting storyteller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He has been a Session Leader in the CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy CA, CMA and CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations. Stephen has nearly 40 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters. Through his courses, he interacts with hundreds of financial leaders a year and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics. Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.
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