Summary:

Is your accounting and finance department ready to support an improving economy and potential new business growth? In this evolving economic environment, effectively managing staffing resources is especially critical. Up-to-date benchmarking data can help managers maintain the right staff levels to keep productivity and service levels high and personnel costs in check.

Benchmarking is a critical first step in evaluating and improving a company’s operations. Having access to information about how other firms manage their accounting and finance function can help you identify opportunities for improvement and create best practices that suit your unique circumstances.

This webinar will allow financial executives to more easily compare their own operations with peer companies and gain insights into new and innovative enhancements that can help to improve performance.

In this one-hour, complimentary webinar, experts from Robert Half and Financial Executives International and CFOs from leading companies, will share major trends, actionable steps for today’s finance leaders and critical takeaways related to the recently released report, “Benchmarking the Accounting & Finance Function: 2014.” 

Details:

• Tuesday, May 20, 2014
• 10:00AM PT/12:00PM CT/1:00PM ET

Key Learnings:

Panelists will discuss how public and private firms in the United States and Canada are managing their accounting and finance departments and measuring up against competitors in six vital areas:

1. Workforce management
2. Accounting operations
3. Financial systems
4. Sourcing
5. Internal controls
6. Compliance

Speakers:

• Robert Dietrich, CFO, Armstrong Fluid Technology
• Paul McDonald, Senior Executive Director, Robert Half 
• Kirstin Sandaas, CFO, Foss Maritime Company
• Tom Thompson, Senior Research Associate, FERF

CPE:

• One unit of CPE credit will be offered for this webinar (Field of study: Management Advisory Services).
• Advanced preparation: none
• Program level: basic

Robert Half International is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the national Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses of CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website. ​