Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
The success of a business depends on its ability to get products or services to consumers in a timely manner. The supply chain is the part of the business that involves moving raw materials, products, information, or people from one place to another with the ultimate goal of delivering products or services to the end consumer.
This course will be an overview of the importance of supply chain analytics to businesses, the problems faced by supply chains and how to approach solving them and the use of Excel in analyzing supply chain issues.
Topics Include:
- Key Supply Chain Issues
- Excel Functions and Tools for Use in Supply Chain Analytics
Key Takeaways
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
- Recall the use of supply chain analytics.
- Identify key problems to be solved using supply chain analytics.
- Recognize the use of Excel functions and tools in analyzing supply chain problems.
Who Will Benefit
Examples of professionals who would benefit from this course include:
- Auditors who need to assess inventory valuation, revenue recognition, and liquidity risks.
- Tax professionals advising on inventory-related tax strategies or transfer pricing in global supply chains.
- CPAs in manufacturing, retail, wholesale, or logistics sectors where supply chain is a core operational component.
- Professionals evaluating the financial health of supply chain partners or vendors.
- CPAs involved in budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
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 course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
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Speaker(s)
Michael (“Mike”) Brown’s extensive experience confirms his presence as a leader in the accounting community—with a commitment for student success and a passion for teaching. For over 15 years, Mike has been a senior national instructor with Becker Professional Education. He has reached 167,000 individual students—just since February of 2019—in Becker’s CPA and CMA Review courses and countless more through his presentations at conferences, firms, universities and in the online community. Mike’s teaching is enhanced by his vast accounting experience in many industries, including manufacturing, financial, retail, real estate and service. With Becker's CPA Evolution course, Mike is heavily involved in the lecture videos in four sections: AUD, FAR, BAR, and ISC. In addition to the CPA Review, CMA Review and CPE courses he teaches at Becker, Mike is an adjunct professor in accounting at Franklin University. He also recently completed a term on the Beta Alpha Psi Board of Directors. Mike graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Master of Science in Accounting. He is a licensed CPA in the State of North Carolina, currently residing in Raleigh with his wife and two children.