Identify and measure cost drivers and trends within your organization

This webcast will teach you how to:
- Evaluate which accounting practices can assist in managing your organization’s cost
- Separate productivity from economies of scale
- Review allocations, standards, and inventory practices
- Identify cause-effect relationships
- Measure changes in the mix of your costs
- Incorporate lean concepts in your organization

Learning Objectives:
· Differentiate selected accounting topics and practices
· Analyze the uses of break-even analysis
· Compare analytical techniques to improve your ability to isolate and measure cost trends

Who will benefit:
Accountants and finance professionals, owners, controllers, treasurers, financial officers, and other financial managers in organizations with less than $250 million in sales

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Improve your forecasting process

Even when it's not plainly stated, all budgets, plans and actions include assumptions about current and future economic conditions. Yet relatively few CPAs spend sufficient time trying to improve their understanding of economic issues and conditions.

This webcast focuses on budgeting and capital programs, and specific actions that will help an organization improve performance.

Recent examples of companies that improved their competitive position and profitability will be presented.

Learn tools, techniques, practices and examples regarding:
- Changing business models
- Undertaking traditional consolidation
- Expanding product lines
- Modifying supply chains and distribution channels
- Improving technology
- Forming alliances

Learning Objectives:
· Determine how behavioral finance can influence investment decisions
· Analyze the current economy in relation to prior economic cycles
· Determine actions to prepare for the next business cycle

Who will benefit:
Accountants and finance professionals, owners, controllers, treasurers, financial officers, and other financial managers in organizations with less than $250 million in sales

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Risk mitigation and response

Boards and executive teams must manage an ever-changing landscape filled with uncertainty — economic, geopolitical, technology, tax regulations, talent pool, cyber-terrorism, data privacy and more.

Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of things (IoT), are disrupting business models across all sectors.

Learn strategies for mitigating risks and dealing with risks quickly.

Learning Objectives:
· Recognize the importance of linking risk management to strategic planning.
· Identify the strategies to handle risks.
· Recognize the expanding role of finance.
· Recall how to incorporate risk management into strategic planning.

Who will benefit:
· CPAs, accountants and finance professionals
· Any practitioner who plays a role in risk management and strategic planning

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Current employment law

Become familiar with current employment law, so that you understand the responsibilities and boundaries of your own role and can assess workplace issues and legal implications.

Learn about
• Employment discrimination laws
• How major claims affect employment best practices
• E-employment and cyber employment issues
• What constitutes wrongful termination

Understand how to establish a structured framework for systematic analysis of employee issues and rights.

Learning Objectives:
· Assess the historical and current trends in employment law claims, settlements, and verdicts.
· Analyze the process by which most employment law claims get to federal or state court.
· Evaluate employment-related issues associated with evolving technologies and cyberspace.
· Assess what makes a termination wrongful under applicable law.
· Identify how harassment claims are defined by the EEOC.
· Analyze the factors that expose an employer to a claim of retaliation.

Who will benefit:
Financial professionals in businesses, not-for-profits, and public practices
Those who practice in corporate, business, public advocacy, and other areas of the law.

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Position your business for success with effective risk management (bold)

Future of finance and other research continues to validate data points that risk management and planning are core skillsets that organizations need to fine-tune for business resilience. Research shows that a comprehensive risk management strategy best positions companies for success.

This webcast provides a framework of a variety of prominent risks which, if on your radar, will help you plan for those which could impact your business in unpredictable ways. 

Learning Objectives:
· Recognize a variety of trends that have the potential to expose businesses to risk
· Identify the impact these trends may have on critical risks facing your business
· Recall important topics and conversations to be discussed regarding these key risks as they relate to your business

Who will benefit:
CFOs, controllers, and VPs of finance, risk management
professionals and CPA/CGMA business advisers

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Thrive in the "next normal"

The needs of organizations have changed significantly through the pandemic, requiring CFOs to power up business guidance to thrive in the “next normal."

Finance must embrace automation to deliver this guidance effectively.

To become true value partners to the business, finance must also:
-Take ownership of the finance data model
-Automate insight generation

Learn expert strategies for evolving the finance function (bold)

Join Workday finance executives and customers as they share the strategies and solutions they have used to prepare for the next evolution in finance.

Learning Objectives:
· Recognize the capabilities of next-generation Cloud ERP.
· Assess use cases for finance automation.
· Analyze the application of AI and machine learning in automating insight generation.
· Determine how technology forms the platform for value creation.

Who will benefit:
· Accounting and finance professionals
-CFOs

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

With capacity challenges on the mind of many tax and accounting leaders, finding ways for their teams to work more efficiently is crucial. They need their teams to not be busy, but deliver value, and continue to develop their skills and knowledge. Project Management techniques help uncover inefficiencies and gaps in current processes, as well as, manage the planning and forecasting needed to drive necessary changes for future success. In this session, learn when to incorporate project management best practices that can help you get the best out of your team.

The major topics covered in this course include:

• When to incorporate project management best practices to get the best out of your team
• Five ways project management helps get the best out of your team

Who will benefit: Partners, directors, managers, supervisors, and HR professionals.

THIS WEBCAST IS HOSTED ON CPA CROSSINGS PLATFORM. ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ATTEND THE WEBCAST VIA E-MAIL.

Effective methods to manage cash

An efficient, well-positioned organization manages its working capital requirements and has access to adequate financing to support its growth.

In this webcast, you will:

- Understand how effective cash management can be the difference between the success or failure of an organization

- Learn about numerous activities and decisions that constitute good cash management

- Understand how cash is the commodity that equates all elements in an organization

Learning Objectives:
· Identify cash management activities
· Analyze the cash conversion cycle
· Distinguish among selected working capital policies
· Analyze the role and effect of financing

Who will benefit:
Owners, controllers, treasurers, financial officers, and other financial managers in organizations with less than $250 million in sales

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

Identify and measure cost drivers and trends within your organization

In this webcast, you'll learn how to evaluate which accounting practices can assist in managing your organization’s cost:

- Separate productivity from economies of scale
- Review allocations, standards and inventory practices
- Identify cause-effect relationships
- Measure changes in the mix of your costs
- Incorporate lean concepts in your organization

Learning Objectives:
· Analyze selected accounting topics and practices
· Determine the uses of break-even analysis
· Compare analytical techniques to improve the user's ability to isolate and measure cost trends

Who will benefit:
Owners, controllers, treasurers, financial officers, and other financial managers in organizations with less than $250 million in sales, accountants and finance professionals

THIS IS AN AICPA HOSTED WEBCAST. YOU WILL LAUNCH THE COURSE FROM YOUR OSCPA LEARNING CENTER. AICPA WILL ISSUE AND MAINTAIN YOUR CREDITS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR CPE CERTIFICATE FROM AICPA WEBCAST PORTAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WEBCAST.

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. This session will discuss the common decision-making errors people make and to help you avoid making these blunders yourself. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event. 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

Who will benefit: All professionals at every level

THIS WEBCAST IS HOSTED ON CPA CROSSINGS PLATFORM. ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ATTEND THE WEBCAST VIA E-MAIL.