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The Controller's Toolkit

  • ITEM SKU
    8005
  • CPE Hours
    20
  • Full Course Price
    $119.50
Exam Questions: 100
Course Level: Basic
Pages: 668 | Content: 626, Supplemental: 42
NASBA Area of Study: Management Services
Not Acceptable for: Enrolled Agents
Version: 8005A

This course comes complete with the tools and information a financial controller will need to master areas like business ethics, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, security, IT processes, and financial operations. It includes a collection of templates, checklists, internal controls, review sheets, policies, and procedures that will prove invaluable for small businesses, multinational firms, and everything in between. PLEASE NOTE: Not accepted for Enrolled Agents. All course material provided. No prerequisites. Course level: Basic.

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Table of Contents
  • Defining the Role of a Controller
  • The Controller and Risk Management
  • The Controller and Ethics
  • The Controller and Corporate Governance
  • Entity-Level Controls
  • Strategic Planning and Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Internal Control Program
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Procure-to-Pay
  • Hire-to-Retire
  • Order-to-Cash
  • Record-to-Report
  • Budgets, Forecasts, and Capital Budgeting
  • Supply Chain Management and Inventory Control
  • Treasury and Cash Management
  • Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing
  • Dashboards, Data Validation, Analytics, Metrics, and Benchmarking
  • Information Technology Controls and Cybersecurity
  • Business Continuity and Physical Security
  • Leadership and Managing Change
  • Trends, Process Transformation, and Digitization
Objectives
  • To identify the person in charge of the process related to finance and accounting
  • To recall the characteristics of risk management
  • To recall recommendations to consider when implementing an ethics training program
  • To recall the characteristics of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  • To identify the internal controls framework that has been utilized since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
  • To recall the characteristics of mission, values, and vision statements
  • To recognize the three critical corporate controls
  • To recall the means of identifying and verifying the identity of financial institution customers
  • To identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for the accounts payable process
  • To recall the definition of human capital management
  • To recall the methods used to evaluate a potential customer's credit
  • To identify financial statement fraud red flags
  • To recall the main purpose of a budget
  • To recall the common categories of bill of materials errors
  • To recall the characteristics of various letters of credit
  • To recognize the characteristics of various outsourcing models
  • To recall the three common types of benchmarking initiatives
  • To recognize the principles of COBIT 5
  • To identify the characteristics of an ideal IT disaster recovery plan
  • To recognize the traits of a successful active listener
  • To recall the various types of cloud computing

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