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Positioning the accounting and financial functions within the company
- Defining the main tasks and determining the major objectives of the financial departments.
- Analyzing the needs of internal customers.
Hands-on work
Discussions Listing and prioritizing the tasks within each company.
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Assessing the performance of the financial departments
- Ensuring consistency, quality and compliance in the financial reporting.
- Managing the various regulatory, accounting and fiscal requirements.
- Analyzing the cross-departmental processes: management and review processes.
- Assessing the quality of the departments: reactivity, verifiability, productivity.
Hands-on work
Characterize the performance of the accounting and financial departments. Assess the processes in which the trainees are involved.
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Arranging the implementation of the strategy for developing the organization
- Establishing a unified and simplified management benchmark based on an ERP.
- Adapting the tool to changes in the company in accordance with strategic, functional and financial requirements.
- Standardizing reporting: reducing the closure and financial reporting timescales.
- Ensuring that the accounting and finance frameworks comply with the regulations in force.
- Enhancing performance: develop EDI, scanning of invoices, electronic data management.
- Implementing new forms of organization: shared service center, outsourcing, etc.
Hands-on work
Case study Suggest ways to optimize closure times. List the best methods for organizing the department.
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Optimizing the accounting and reporting processes
- Constructing scorecards: defining performance indicators.
- Establishing a process for the observation and analysis of internal and external performance.
- Communicating with different contacts: knowing how to motivate.
- Promoting the added value of the accounting and financial departments.
Hands-on work
Role-playing With the help of the scorecards you have designed, simulate how they might be used in a meeting between departments. Role-playing.