Accenture research shows that more than 70% business results will be influenced by outstanding finance function. Any enterprise doesn’t achieve the finance function transforming will definitely be threatened in nowadays fierce competition for lacking of decision support. As qualified finance executives, we should simplify the underlying business process, increase the time of decision-making support. Worldwide top companies have seized the opportunity to transform the finance function to achieve more effective financial work, then how about you?

This course invites Dr. Alan Parkinson, the well-known professor of University College London, to be the honorable lecturer on presenting the impacts of the changing world on finance function, and raising the response of finance function to the external influences. Alan will also guide the finance executives to utilize ‘DMAIC Principle’ (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) for optimizing company’s finance process. This course will help companies create values from customers’ perspective and implement effective financial reform for enhancing competitive advantages.

 Knowing current worldwide changes and their major influence on finance function

 Understanding the finance function solutions for coping the changes and the development tendency of finance accounting

 Learning ‘DMAIC Principle’ for optimizing the finance process

 Strengthening data mining and acknowledgement

 Building partnership between finance and management level

 Enhancing value creation from customers’ perspective

     CFO

 Finance Director

 Chief Accountant

 Finance Manager

 Finance/ Accounting Personnel

 Day 1

- The implications of a changing world for the Finance function

- Tasks of Accountants
- Changes in The Organisational World
- Manual Workers vs Knowledge Workers
- The Impact on the World of Accountants
 
Finance in the Future

- The Shift in Focus within Finance
- Better Performance Through Better Finance Support
- Finance and IT Interfaces
- Changing Information Demands

Improve the Finance process: Inputs into Outputs
- ‘Business Partners’
- ‘Lean’ methodology
- Undesirable effects (UDE’s)
- Force field analysis

Balanced scorecards
- BSC KPIs
- BSC Mechanisms
- Practical Application
- Advice For Successful Implementation
- The Efficiency/Effectiveness Matrix

Key performance indicators
- Measuring Efficiency, Effectiveness, Economy
- The 3Es&VFM
- Holistic Measures
- The Efficiency/Effectiveness Matrix

Day 2

USING BUDGETS TO MANAGE AND PLAN:Beyond Conventional Budgeting
- STRATEGIC CORPORATE PLAN
- Budget Relationships(based on commercial business)
- Traditional Budgeting
- Playing Games with the Budget
- The Hockey Stick
- Influencing behaviorthrough responsibility accounting
- The Utility of Budgets

From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Budgeting
- Alternative Business Structures
- Six Principles of Devolved Leadership
- Unsuitability of Budgets
- Six Adaptive Processes

Thoughts about costs
- Another Way of Looking at Costs
- Full Costing
- Contribution Costing‘Contribution Significance’ in Your Area
- Activity Based Costing and Illustration
- Cost Pools

Variances from Budgets
- Making Sense of Budget Variances
- Investigating Variances