Practical Analysis for Accountants is a seminar that will help you sharpen your skills as a controller, CFO, treasurer, analyst, or as a professional in public practice advising clients. You’ll appreciate the mix of practical tips and substantial depth in this companion seminar to Practical Tips for Controllers & CFOs. It can be taken by itself, before or after that seminar. Participating in group and break-out sessions, you’ll work through in-depth, realistic cases. And, you’ll interact with peers who share their wide range of skills and experience.

Seminar cases
This practical course involves working through a number of realistic situations faced by accountants:

• Improve the relevancy of your financial reporting to users – this case will help you provide better information to report users
• Negotiating an offer to finance from a bank – gain practical tips on responding to a very realistic bank offer. How should it be assessed? How can you persuade the bank to revise it in your favour?
• Review a contract from a financial perspective – you review contracts from time to time, how can this be done more effectively?
• Resolve ethical dilemmas – are there legitimate ways around them? What are the danger areas and what do the rules say? Apply principles in realistic scenarios
• Manage foreign exchange risk, practically – from an accountant’s perspective, not a banker’s
• Learn how to gain the information you really need on key qualities when interviewing candidates

Includes
Over 100 pages of useful take-home case material with solutions

Who will benefit:
Any accountants who face now, or will face in the future, situations in the seminar cases. Also, any professionals advising clients who face such situations.

Some seminar feedback

• Working through cases with professionals from other industries and sectors is a great opportunity to learn from their experience. You just don’t get that in other seminars
• Excellent: highly recommend as a two day package with Practical Tips
• I thoroughly enjoyed Practical Analysis for Accountants
• This is a good course to be taken in conjunction with the Practical Tips course
• Real life practical cases with practical solutions
• The financial reporting and banking offer case were most informative
• One of the best PD courses – practical, good mix of case study, group work and class discussion

No seminars in your area?
 
The seminar is taught by Stephen Priddle, CA, CMA, or Gordon Ellison, CA for certain seminars in Alberta and B.C.
and Marty Stillman, CA in Windsor.