The CFO’s Guide To Executing Effective Growth Strategies
What you'll learn
- Identify the Key Trends Affecting Domestic/Global Growth Strategy Alternatives.
- Identify and Evaluate Key Advantages/Disadvantages of Organic vs. External Growth Strategies.
- Explore Best Practices in Crafting A Business Growth Plan.
- Explore the Understanding and Evaluating of the Risks & Benefits of Global Growth.
Requirements
- Prerequisite: Exposure to corporate strategy
- Advanced Preparation: None
Description
This course focuses on the current and potential role of the CFO in crafting and implementing effective domestic and global growth strategies.
Topics include current trends in CFO strategies affecting the development and execution of growth, strategic growth planning, financial analysis of proposed growth strategies, advantages and disadvantages of different types of organic and external growth strategies and the evolving role of the office of the CFO in driving growth.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in Accounting, Finance, or Bookkeeping.
Instructors
Illumeo, incorporated in 2009, is revolutionizing the hide-bound world of corporate learning. Illumeo works with corporate professionals and organizations of all sizes to build the skills and capabilities that help everyone be an expert at their job.
Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination.
Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.
Andrew Sherman focuses his practice on issues affecting business growth for companies at all stages, including developing strategies to leverage intellectual property and technology assets, as well as international corporate transactional and franchising matters.
He has served as a legal and strategic advisor to dozens of Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of emerging growth companies. He has represented U.S. and international clients from early stage, rapidly growing start-ups, to closely held franchisors and middle market companies, to multibillion dollar international conglomerates. He also counsels on issues such as franchising, licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, capital formation, distribution channels, technology development, and mergers and acquisitions.
Andrew has written 24 books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth, franchising, capital formation, and the leveraging of intellectual property. He also has published many articles on similar topics and is a frequent keynote speaker at business conferences, seminars, and webinars. He has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, NPR, and CBS News Radio, among others, and has been interviewed on legal topics by The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and other publications.
Andrew serves as an adjunct professor in the M.B.A. programs at the University of Maryland and as well as the law school at Georgetown University and is a multiple recipient of the University of Maryland at College Park's Krowe Excellence in Teaching Award.