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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. – Seneca

Globalization, volatile exchange rates, trans-border acquisitions and divestitures, need for timely and accurate information, increased reporting regulations, insights into business drivers, becoming a business partner - if this short list does not give you a feeling of a “harried” CFO under pressure then nothing will. The pressure to perform has never been so intense and the CFO is in the middle of this storm and is expected to be an integral part of driving enterprise performance. The days of simply doing the variance analysis and month end closures and reconciliations are over and will never return.

Amidst this onslaught of change and pressure, CEOs and Boards have another expectation from their CFO’s – enhance shareholder value.  Create it, enhance and refine it, acquire it, link strategies that support it, and create a reporting architecture to drive it through the enterprise – the Value-Driven CFO.

This program will take you beyond the traditional financial and management reporting as well as the traditional debits and credits, and guide you on designing value-driven performance indicators and compensation incentives, and help you find become the go-to value adding CFO.

Upcoming Dates

March 22-25, 2009
Dunsmuir Lodge, Sidney, BC

Should You Attend

Are you one of the drivers of performance in your enterprise? Does your senior management rely on you to analyze and make key financial decisions? Are you involved in making acquisitions and divestiture decisions? Do you provide the Board and external shareholders/stakeholders with performance analysis? Are you interested in improving your knowledge with leading edge best practices in the Finance function? Are you interested in learning about new tools and methods to add value to your enterprise? Do you want to run the best CFO organization? Do you want to go beyond the stovepipe finance function? If so, then this program is for you.

The Program

Over the course of three highly interactive and hands-on days, you will develop, refine and gain insights into many interrelated areas:

• The Enlightened CFO and the Finance Organization
  • The enterprise model and the finance function
  • Partnering with business
  • Adding value to the Board
    
    
• The Value Mirage
  • The elusive shareholder value
  • How does one define a profitable enterprise?
  • How does one recognize and create value?
  • Valuing an enterprise for acquisition/divestiture
  • Negotiating to win …
    
    
• Beyond Financial Numbers
  • Enterprise strategy and CFO
  • Dashboards - designing and using
  • Linking the dots - leading and lagging indicators
    
    
• Searching for Gold: the product – channel – client dilemma
  • Going from general ledger to sub-ledgers
  • From Financial Accounting to Management Information - the role of Business Intelligence
  • Designing actionable Management Information
    
    
• From Numbers to Execution
  • What is wrong with traditional budgeting?
  • Designing value driven incentives with the right alignment
  • Exception based Management Information – Speeding the Event to Knowledge cycle

The Faculty

Dr. Vijay Jog is the Founder - President of Corporate Renaissance Group, a firm dedicated to driving better business management and performance. He is also the Chancellor Professor of Finance at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University.

He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including: three Best Paper Awards for 'the Most Original Research in Canadian Capital Markets'; two Research Achievement Awards in special recognition of "Outstanding Scholarly Contribution"; two Professor of the Year Awards "In Recognition of Outstanding Teaching and Service to Students"; four best paper awards and the Moulton Gold Medal for the Most Notable Contribution to the Published Records of Institution of Chemical Engineers, London, England.

His consulting career is global and spans over twenty years. His clients include almost every major federal government department and many other public and private sector organizations in Canada, U.S., U.K., Netherlands, South Africa, Namibia, Barbados, Trinidad, Poland, Ukraine, German, Austria, and India including some of the world’s largest corporations. He has worked with the most senior management of these organizations in helping them in their journey of improving corporate performance and shareholder/stakeholder value.

In recognition of his varied career, Vijay was recognized in the year 2001 as a “Leader in Management Education” in Canada by National Post in a Canada wide competition and was described as “Mr. Value Added” by the Ottawa Citizen.

The following are a few of thousands of testimonials Dr. Jog’s courses have received over the years:

“Vijay is an excellent seminar leader. His use of real life examples and his anecdotal approach make him one of the best seminar leaders I have had.”
“Delivery was excellent. Info was presented concisely. Great takeaways.” “V ery good, relevant. Humorous style was very effective.” “Vijay is a great speaker with excellent material.”
“ Vijay was excellent – sought confirmation of understanding. Good pacing and good use of humour.”
“Does a great job summarizing info into very understandable points. Very personable, approachable and knowledgeable.”

Pricing

$3,150 for Members | $3,550 for Non-members

The program cost includes individual room accommodation and three meals per day for 3 days at Dunsmuir Lodge – a premier and unique conference centre on Vancouver Island, BC; as well as the cost of the program and all course materials. 

Registration

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