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 accountants

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

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The seminar is taught by Stephen Priddle, CA, CMA.