Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This course offers a powerful opportunity to transform your mindset and behaviors, empowering you to shift from an accountant-focused perspective centered on past events to becoming a dynamic, commercially-focused business partner. By honing these skills, you will be instrumental in aiding decision-makers to make more informed and strategic business choices, directly impacting your organization’s future financial outcomes.
This certificate program is offered in collaboration with facilitators from The Finance Business Partner.
Before we start let’s be super clear on one thing: this is NOT a finance course.
Here's the thing - you probably already know how to be a great accountant. You've got reporting, budgeting and forecasting nailed. And you probably already know how to appraise capex or promotional activity.
The thing is, while those things make you a great accountant, they won't help you to become a great Finance Business Partner.
Why? Because Finance Business Partnering is about building relationships, turning the data into insights, bringing numbers to life, and influencing decisions.
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Schedule
Date | Time | Topic | Location |
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November 19, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Bringing the Numbers to Life with Commercial Insight | Online via Zoom |
November 20, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Online via Zoom | |
November 26, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Influence Masterclass with Advanced Storytelling | Online via Zoom |
November 27, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Online via Zoom | |
Self-Directed | 4 hours | Self-Study/Exercises | Online via Zoom |
Key Takeaways
By the end of this certificate program, you will be able to:
- Really get to grips with the FBP mindset.
- Determine the problem with most finance reports and how they are received.
- Take a huge amount of data and quickly turn it into 3 key messages that get your message across in just 90 seconds.
- Turn a boring table of numbers and turn it into a one-page dashboard that's interesting, engaging, and fun!
- Build instant rapport with anyone in just 2 minutes, even difficult people.
- Learn how to say no without saying no and challenge without damaging your relationship.
- Position your finance ideas as heroes (solutions) that solve your stakeholders’ biggest problems (villains).
Earn a Digital Badge
Our new collection of digital badges can be earned through the completion of any of our certificate programs offered in our professional development catalogue. Collect these digital badges to add to your website, social profiles, email signature and more. These badges are an easy way to visually communicate your skills and accomplishments to your peers and network. Digital badges will be awarded based on course completion requirements.
Who Will Benefit
Everyone in finance can be a Finance Business Partner, and in fact, everyone needs to be for finance to flourish as a function.
This course is for accountants and finance professionals who have exceptional technical skills and want to influence more commercial decisions by turning data into insights, bringing numbers to life and building relationships.
Prerequisite(s)
Participants are required to use a laptop or computer with Excel. An external mouse is strongly recommended for the hands-on work, as well as a functioning internal microphone to experience the full audio portion of the course.
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Attendance Requirements
To earn your CPD hours and Digital Badge, you must attend 80% of live sessions. We understand that sometimes unplanned absences happen. Please reach out to our Operations Team if you're unable to attend a session as scheduled.
How to Access the Course
We're pleased to invite you to register for our Certificate courses. Whether or not you're a CPA, you're more than welcome to join us on this learning journey. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Don't worry if you don't have a CPA Ontario ID yet; you can easily set up your account right here. Let's begin your learning adventure together.
This CPA Ontario course is a live certificate program, delivered over four, half-day, sessions. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time of each session. Recordings of all sessions will be available to all registrants.
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the seminar to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Iain Dewson is an FCA who has held senior finance roles across retail, investment banking, advertising, marketing services and insurance. Most recently, he was Head of Finance Academy at TUI (in the group HR L&D function) leading global finance learning for 3,500 people in 40 countries. In 2019, he joined The Finance Business Partner, specialising in helping teams build better relationships, bring numbers to life and influence decisions.