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Thursday, June 15, 2023 Live Webcast

Critical Thinking for Financial Professionals (X2-36011)

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
webcast

Vendor Platform

1 CPE Credits in MT

OVERVIEW

What were they thinking? Why do business leaders sometimes make horrible decisions that severely damage themselves and their organizations? It is tempting to assume that poor choices must be due to someone's incompetence, inexperience, bad character, or low intelligence. Yet, when we make a mistake ourselves, we someone rationalize it as a choice other people would make under the same circumstances.

DESIGNED FOR

All professionals at every level

BENEFITS

Gain insights that will help you, and your management team make better decisions.

HIGHLIGHTS

Two Systems of Thinking

  • System 1
  • System 2

How cognitive bias can cause you to make bad decisions

  • Anchoring
  • Availability
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • The Ikea Effect
  • The Rhyme as Reason Effect
  • Substitution

6 Tips for making better decisions

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Some background in logical thinking is helpful

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

John Daly

John L. Daly, CPA, M.B.A., CMA, CPIM

Executive Education, Inc.

John L. Daly, M.B.A., CPA, CMA, CPIM, is a Chelsea, Michigan-based management consultant specializing in costing, pricing strategy and pricing model development. He has taught continuing professional education courses since 1995. John has been CFO for a Tier 1 automotive parts supplier and a large restaurant chain and COO for a window treatments manufacturer and retailer. He authored, Pricing for Profitability published by Wiley and Sons.