Chief Financial Officer Leadership Program
What you'll learn
- In this course, you will learn how to analyze financial statements like a professional analyst to gain deeper insight into the finacial results, profitability, financial strength, and cash return generation potential.
- In this course, you will be able to facilitatte development of an Enterprise Risk Management system using the principles of the COSO ERM framework.
- In this course, you will learn about financing strategy including the different varieties of financing, how each work, and when to seek each source of financing.
- In this course, you will learn about fraud risk including how it happens, why it happens, and how to best prevent it from happening in your organization.
- In this course, you will learn about corporate strategy development. You will learn how to make a valuable contribution as the business developes, analyzes, implements, and evaluates corporate strategy.
- In this course, you will learn about change management including the challenges of change, change from the perpective of the employee, approaches to successfully implementing a change initiative, and adapting your organization for continuous change.
Requirements
- General business acumen
- A passion for finance
- A sense of humor
Description
Are you a financial professional working in industry looking to get more out of your career?
Do you have what it takes to sit at the boardroom table at your company and contribute?
Do you want to take what you know about the numbers side of the business and make a greater contribution at the highest levels?
If this is the way you are thinking today and the direction you'd like to go, then this is the leadership program for you.
Hi there, I’m Blair Cook and I’m a seven time CFO and three time corporate director. I’ve spent the past two decades around the boardroom table facilitating strategy sessions, raising financing, negotiating mergers and acquisitions, and reporting to a board of directors or serving on the board of directors.
In this program, we have curated ideas to help financial professionals move from the cubicle to the corner office as soon as possible. Its table stakes that you know the numbers and can prepare the reports. In this program, you’ll learn to move beyond the accounting to think strategically, act as a catalyst leader, and influence the decisions of any organization for the better.
What are you waiting for? Enroll with us now to get started!
Who this course is for:
- Financial professional seeking senior or executive professional development
Instructor
![Blair Cook CPA, CA MBA Jen Nicholson CPA, CA](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 665 Reviews
- 5,961 Students
- 7 Courses
Blair is a many-time corporate director, CFO, author, speaker, educator, innovator, and thought leader. His educational videos of accounting and finance have million of views on YouTube. He has keynoted and spoken at national conferences from New York to Toronto. Along with Jen, he co-hosts CPA Canada’s podcast series “CPA Success Podcast.” He works with real businesses to experiment with theories and practices developed both in the academic and real world. He then shares these experiences and stories with others of what works, what doesn’t, and what was learned. He is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.
Jen is a dynamic financial professional with over 20 years of leadership experience in public practice, academia and industry. Jen is the co-host of CPA Canada’s podcast series “CPA Success Podcast.” Jen brings to the classroom a broad skill set and experience in all key facets of an organization including operations management, strategic planning, business development, finance, accounting, investor relations, human resources, and project management. Jen has a passion for making finance more attainable, whether it’s working to articulate strategy in a financial context, bringing clarity to financial communication or teaching accounting to university students. Jen’s career epitomizes the diverse experiences and roles that CPAs play in industry – from financial to operational leadership.