Faster Financial Closing

Improving financial reporting timescales without compromising data quality

WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF IT?
• understanding of how you can significantly improve the reporting timetable whilst maintaining the quality of information being provided
• appreciation of the process, technology and cultural issues which need to be addressed during a project to reduce closing cycle times
• understanding of the benefits to be gained by reducing reporting timescales
• insight, through case studies, into how leading organisations have radically re-engineered their closing process.

KEY FEATURES
• why is faster financial closing needed?
• current and future trends in reporting
• what makes financial closing complex?
• why do ‘quick fix’ solutions rarely work?
• current best practice
• benefits of faster financial closing
• SoftClose – a radical approach to financial closing
• project management, design and timing
• people and change management issues
• software for improved financial closing
• process redesign.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Financial managers responsible for the closing process and those responsible for identifying and exploiting e-business opportunities within the finance function.

LECTURER
Linnet Sen BSc (Hons) ACA, Independent Fast Close Lead Practitioner

This course is held by CIMA Mastercourses and endorsed by ACCA.

£580 + VAT (£681.50) Early booker discount £520 + VAT (£611.00) for ACCA members, up to 28 days before the course.