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Common Sense CFO: Dealing with Ever Changing Accounting Standards and Strategy Demands

Total Credits: 2 including 2 Accounting - Technical

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Accounting and Auditing |  Personal Development |  Professional Development
Speaker:
Bob Mims, CPA
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
Product Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Live Webcast Replay  22
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Expires 40 day(s) after program date.
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Description

GAAP is changing at an increasing rate. Every successful organization has a sound strategy. Financial leaders are faced with the dual challenge of navigating evolving accounting standards while strategically guiding their organizations toward sustainable growth and profitability. What are the newer accounting changes that will impact professional accounting? This seminar will equip finance professionals with the critical skills and practical insights needed to effectively manage the complexities of ever-changing accounting standards and upgrade your essential strategic planning skills. Strategic skills are mandatory today. Strategies that do not keep pace with the market are doomed to fail. If we do not keep up, our successor will.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Equip finance professionals with the critical skills and practical insights needed to effectively manage the complexities of ever-changing accounting standards
  • Upgrade your essential strategic planning skills

Major Subjects
  • Understanding the modern finance and accounting organization chart
  • GAAP accounting changes
    • Why so many changes?
    • The speed of change and complexity
    • Accepting reality
    • Recognizing and fixing the top five accounting problems and errors
      • Leases
      • Revenue
      • Management estimates
  • Why is strategy necessary?
    • What is strategy?
  • The two keys to strategy?
    • Why do some financial leaders lack strategic skills?
    • Balancing strategy with our day-to-day roles

Course Materials

IMPORTANT CPE Credit Instructions Read Before Webcast Updated 2025 (434.2 KB) Available after Purchase

Speaker

Bob Mims, CPA's Profile

Bob Mims, CPA Related Seminars and Products

Bob Mims, CPA, is an entrepreneur and accounting/management executive based in Memphis, TN. He has served as a financial consultant across various industries in the role of planning, modeling and CFO capacities.  Bob has had the privilege of serving as chair on an AICPA committee and on two FASB advisory committees.  During his ten years with the accounting firm KPMG, he was selected national instructor of the year on three occasions. 
Bob graduated from the University of Mississippi, and enjoys outdoor sports with his wife, 5 children, 2 service dogs, and a 20-pound cat named ‘Squirt’.
 

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process
Original Recording Date 08/2025
Yellow Book No
Course Developer The Knowledge Institute
Date Added to Catalog 04/2025

Additional Information

Complaint Resolution Policy

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Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method

Group Internet Based


Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


Refund/Cancellation Policy

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