This course will provide you with hundreds of practical tips for accountants working in the Not-For-Profit sector.
This course covers over one hunded practical tips for accountants who work for Not-For-Profit organizations. The tips are illustrated through concrete examples derived from real experience. As a finance leader, you are expected to deal with a variety of issues and situations. You have your experience as well as what you have learned from colleagues and mentors, but this course will provide you with additional veteran tips, including unconventional ones. You won’t find these tips in courses or textbooks, but you’ll be able to use many of them. An in-depth financial reporting improvement case set in the sector will give you dozens of ideas to improve your financial reporting.
The course was created and presented by an experienced CFO, with extensive real-world insight, who has created a number of courses and spoken to over 16,000 accountants. You will also want to take Part 2 of this course. (Note: This course was previously a one-day course, Practical Tips for Not-For-Profit Financial Leaders.)
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In this video course, the instructor provides highlights from past live session discussions.
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Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Courses for Accountants. Stephen is also the Vice-President, Finance & CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc. In addition, he is a Board member, co-owner and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx group of companies, a global aviation business, which he was the CFO for 12 years previously. An engaging and experienced instructor, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses which have been attended by over 36,000. When speaking, he is candid about errors he has made in his career and the lessons that can be learned from them. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting storyteller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He has been a Session Leader in the CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy CA, CMA and CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations. Stephen has nearly 40 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters. Through his courses, he interacts with hundreds of financial leaders a year and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics. Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.
