This course provides hundreds of useful and often unusual tips for accountants working in any level of government, crown corporations, as well as government agencies.
This course provides hundreds of useful and often unusual tips for accountants working in any level of government, crown corporations, as well as government agencies. Many tips will apply directly, while others will inspire innovative thinking from private sector experience and ideas, while not applying directly. The tips are illustrated through concrete examples derived from practical experience. This course contains 1.0 verifiable ethics hours.
Accountants are expected to be able to deal with a myriad of issues and situations. Each has their experience and what they learned from colleagues and mentors, but this course will provide with many more veteran tips, including numerous unconventional ones.
Over 15,000 accountants have signed up for the private sector courses which form the basis of this session. It was created and is presented by an experienced private sector CFO, with extensive real-life insight.
AGENDA
• Creative thinking for accountants • Straight talk on ethics • Practical technology tips • The faster close • Some different management & leadership tips • KPIs • Improving financial reporting • Dealing with contracts and lawyers • Critical steps when you change jobs • Trouble spots for financial leaders • Some financial modelling keys • Quantitative finance function measurement • Negotiating tips • Interviewing – a different approach
Past feedback from government accountants who watched the video course:
• I found it to be very interesting, informative and relevant. • Thanks for humour! you packed many examples and tips into this course • I have finished viewing the video course and enjoyed it very much! • It was thorough but also not dry, which was a concern for me. • Your course was very interesting and informative. • I will recommend this course to my colleagues • You kept it light and alive • Lots of pertinent information • The course was well organized and not boring to listen to • Great presentation in general • Very captivating and interesting
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.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
