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Description
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Get up to speed in an hour on critical topics for CPAs such as AI, Ethics, Finance, Cybersecurity, Audit, Tax, Sustainability and more.
- Convenient 60-minute audio courses in our new app.
- Flexible format allows you to listen and learn on the go at your own pace.
- Relevant and trending topics affecting CPAs to help you stay at the forefront of the profession.
CPAO’s CFO Executive Program: Leading the Finance Function of the Future - provides busy CFOs and VPs of Finance, from various industries and size of companies, an understanding of the most critical challenges facing finance today. Discover key takeaways to overcome these, with the latest thoughts, stories, trends, research and data points covering the future roles of Senior Finance Leaders, and the future of finance function. The topics covered in The CFO Program are always current and thus evolving year after year. This accelerator will provide a snapshot of emerging content for our Fall 2024 program.
Lessons Covered:
- Introduction
- Understanding the Race to Deploy Generative AI and Raise Skills
- Defining AI Best Practices for CPAs
- Developing ChatGPT Prompts to Improve Decision-Making with Data
- Reshaping the Traditional Finance Landscape by Creating the Analytics Business Partner Role
- Building New Career Paths for a more Digital Finance Future
- Turning the Traditional CPA Mindset from a Liability to an Asset
- Conducting a Modern Finance Team Makeover
- Defining Transformative Leadership Imperatives for the Future of Finance
- Conclusion
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Look ahead to the future of the CFO role: Organizations are looking for CPA Chiefs to create and deliver a new vision for a future-ready finance function over the next 6 years. By 2030 we must land on the optimal combinations of a new digital finance function and an upskilled workforce.
- Determine how to build a future-ready finance function: We are in the dawn of a new era, and there are huge potential rewards for finance teams.
- Identify how to steer finance teams into strategic business partners: In the next couple of years, more than 40% of finance roles will be new or significantly reshaped. These recordings will include tips to better understand new ways of working and recommendations to restructure and re-design our own digital transformation journey for finance.
Who Will Benefit
This course is well suited for the following:
- All alumni of past CPAO CFO Executive Programs, this is an accelerator using a current lens to update content from past programs.
- CPAs working in industry finance teams in senior financial leadership roles for either publicly traded or privately held companies of all sizes.
- Auditors and/or Advisors in professional services firms, interested in developing their client centric abilities by putting themselves in their clients chair.
How to Access the Course
This is an online session. This course is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Once registered, you can access the material at any time.
However, you will only have access to the course for 90 days after REGISTRATION.
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Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Barbara Palmegiani, FCPA, FCMA, is a Partner and National CFO & Controllership Services Leader with BDO Canada LLP, a leading provider of professional services to clients across a variety of sectors and segments. Based in the Greater Toronto Area, Barbara leads a national team of fractional CFOs and Controllers across Canada. Prior to joining BDO, she spent 10 years leading financial and operational restructurings and turnarounds, and providing strategic, financial, and operational services as a part-time CFO to private company business owners, CEOs, and Board of Directors, leveraging her previous full-time finance career in industry as a VP Finance, Officer and Director in the C-Suite.