Corporate Controller in Today's Environment: Part 1

Author: Miles Hutchinson

Keeping the books, managing the accounting department, assisting with issues of middle and senior management, communicating with staff, auditors, regulators and investors - how do you keep it all together? Spend just two hours and learn how to balance your role as historian, manager and communicator.

In this two hour on-demand course, veteran Controller, Treasurer and CFO Miles Hutchinson, CGMA covers the core competencies of the Controller's role in this fast paced and constantly changing environment.

Publication Date: February 2018

Designed For
Accounting Managers, Controllers and those who aspire to become the Corporate Controller.

Topics Covered

• The diverse roles of Corporate Controllers
• Characteristics of the Controller Vs. the CFO Vs. the Treasurer, and what if there is no CFO or Treasurer
• Roles and responsibilities, build your organizational plan and promote it
• Core competencies of the successful controller — "What brought you here won't keep you here"
• Core communication tools- understanding yourself and others is the key
• Strategic Vs Controlling — which approach do you take? When & how often?
• Dashboard Reporting — where to find the tools
• Dealing with Auditors — identify the different approaches to use with Regulatory Vs. Financial Auditors

Learning Objectives

• Identify, define, and clarify the roles you accept as the Corporate Controller
• Recognize how to set reasonable boundaries for what you can accomplish and work within those constraints
• Identify when to outsource the work
• Identify how to be a better communicator and strategist with leadership, employees, customers, vendors, lenders and investors
• Describe the diverse roles of corporate controllers
• Recognize core competencies and communication tools of the controller
• Describe strategic versus controlling approaches
• Recognize leadership qualities
• Identify how to partner with your boss
• Differentiate challenges with selecting a business system
• Recognize accounting functions
• Differentiate functions of the controller
• Identify attributes that are most helpful in the role of controller
• Identify how to effectively use the DiSC Dimensions of Personality Profile
• Recognize how reporting information must be used to be meaningful
• Identify what controllers tasked with ancillary duties should do
• Differentiate the main priorities of a controller
• Recognize why it's important for a controller to have knowledge of regulatory laws
• Identify the foundation for credibility
• Differentiate effective motivators
• Recognize how a controller should best develop leadership skills
• Differentiate how a controller should improve their relationship with their boss
• Identify which personality should be predominant when composing an effective decision making team

Level
Intermediate

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
Experience as an accounting manager or controller.

Advance Preparation
None