The Competent Accountant – Mastering the Role of the Controller/ CFO

Course Description

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How do you raise your skills to the next level to master the Controller or CFO role?   Welcome to a course that provides insights that align the CGMA Competency Framework. The course will examine each of the areas: Technical, Business, Leadership and People to increase your competency.

• How are your technical skills?   Are you a traditional accountant or have you learned to expand your technical skills to go beyond -what are the financial numbers? to -why did these financial results occur?   Are you able to use ratios to understand the business dynamics and the implications to change course or take corrective action?   Are the systems that you implement and operate best practices or merely stop-gap solutions?
• How are your business skills?   Can you set a vision? Can you develop a strategy?   Do you understand the macroeconomic environment of your organization?   Can you lead a major project to a successful conclusion?   This session will explore the role of business as opposed to tracking the results of the business.
• How are your people skills?   How good is your ability to influence others? How are successful are your negotiation skills?   How well can you communicate?   Are you a collaborator or a partner?   This section will help accountants understand that it is people skills that drive the overall success of the accounting operations.
• Finally, how are your Leadership skills?   Do you inspire staff or make them angry?   Do you know why your staff work for your company and you?   Do you understand what employees want from their position?   Do you know how to deal with a difficult staff person?   Can you lead difficult change?   This session will help you recognize what leadership truly is as opposed to what passes for day to day management.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

• Understand what is necessary to Lead the organization as well as the Accounting/Finance department
• Identify tools that are available to improve leadership, business, people and technical skills
• Apply CGMA competency framework to each participant’s skill level and develop a plan of action to obtain competency in all levels

Major Subjects

• Business Management
• Organization

James (Jimmy) T. Lindell is President of Thorsten Consulting Group, which provides strategic and financial consulting, professional speaking, training, and executive coaching. Jim has extensive senior management experience, including positions as Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller, and Corporate Assistant Controller. Jim has worked with various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, not-for-profit, distribution, and food processing. He has participated in more than 50 M&A projects.

Jim is a CPA with public accounting experience at several local and regional accounting firms and received the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. He is a Vistage Chairman and responsible for two CEO groups in the Milwaukee area.   He is a member (and instructor) of the American Institute of CPAs and the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs and a National Speakers Association member.

Jim is the author of Controller as Business Manager (Published by the AICPA and Wiley) and author of the AICPA courses: Annual Update for Controllers (Best Seller), Analytics and Big Data for Accountants, and many other courses on financial leadership.

Jim is a ten-time recipient of the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

Jim is a member of the folk music group Deep Pool, retired coach of a boys’ high school rugby club, and is contemplating if he should foolishly play another -old boys rugby game.