Now is the time to change or update your processes and build your strategy. Hear from thought leaders in the accounting profession and businesses. These speakers have been going through the same rigorous personal and professional changes as you have in the past two years. Learn their secrets to success, sharpen your skills and stay competitive in the months to come.
BENEFITS
Discover strategies for ensuring resilience for your team and organization at this year's Strategic Finance and Accounting Conference, planned by the Ohio Society of CPAs.
HIGHLIGHTS
8-9:15 a.m.
Economic Update & Business Climate Outlook (1.5 EC)
Ben Ayers, Senior Economist - Nationwide
Matthew Waldo, Director, Research and Analytics - JobsOhio
- Highlight new trends in the global economy.
- Understand how recent updates in the economy will affect the local and regional market.
- Discuss strategies to help you prepare for the year to come.
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Creative Thinking and Problem Solving (1.5 MT)
Marsha Huber, Director of Research - Institute of Management Accountants
- Learn techniques to advance critical thinking and creative problem-solving in your leadership role.
- Clarify your personal work challenges and move toward new solutions that will benefit you and your team.
- Identify best practices for problem solving, learn how to develop your ideas and evaluate alternative solutions for their merits.
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
An Update for the Strategic Leader: Part 1 (1.5 MT)
James Lindell, President and CEO - Thorsten Consulting Group
- Identify the strategic trends impacting your organization.
- Determine how you and your organization can effectively respond to specific trends.
- Examine working capital practices and key ways to improve your organizations working capital position.
12:15-1 p.m.
Lunch
1-1:50 p.m.
Creative Solutions to Staffing Challenges (1.0 MT)
Speaker TBD
- Review trends in the pipeline and workforce.
- Dive into creative recruiting strategies including alternative solutions to full-time staffing.
- Think through top retention benefits and engagement techniques and how those could be applied to your organization.
2-2:50 p.m.
An Update for the Strategic Leader: Part 2 (1.0 MT)
James Lindell, President and CEO - Thorsten Consulting Group
- Recognize how predictive analytics can improve organizational results.
- Learn how to employ BI, AI and RPA technologies.
- Establish ways to reduce risk through contingency and succession planning.
3-4:15 p.m.
Financial and Operations Benchmarking Using Automated Data Analysis (1.5 MT)
Anthony Samuel LaNasa, Managing Principal - HW&Co
Michael Shoffner, Healthcare and Chief Compliance and Security Officer - HW&Co
- Discuss the value you can derive by embedding analytics into your financial workflows.
- Pinpoint ways to improve operational efficiencies, identify priorities and fuel organizational growth with benchmarking analytics.
COURSE LEVEL
Basic