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Professional Skills for Finance and Accounting

Professional Skills for Finance and Accounting

Why Attend

This course covers the essential skills needed for finance staff to excel in their companies. From macro level management and financial overview to personal organization and time management, various skills are put into practice to help participants become more successful at the workplace.

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Overview
Course Methodology

This course relies on a variety of individual and team exercises supported with role plays as well as individual and group presentations and Excel workshops.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the relationship between the various financial statements
  • Explain the characteristics of 'delegation' and apply various personal organization management techniques
  • Evaluate skills and attitudes of finance staff and identify their communication personality styles
  • Practice some of the essential Excel skills to increase efficiency and productivity
  • Apply finance policies and procedures to add value and communicate effectively with other departments
Target Audience

Financial managers, financial controllers, finance department heads, chief financial officers, accounting managers, senior finance officers, accountants, finance staff and analysts.

Target Competencies
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Delegation
  • Communication
  • Organization
  • Time management
Course Outline
  • The macro finance picture
    • Understanding the accounting cycle
    • The income statement
    • The balance sheet
    • Changes in owners’ equity statements
    • Cash flow statements
    • The relationship of financial statements
    • Functions of management
    • Elements of a vision for finance and accounting department
    • Effectiveness versus efficiency
    • Supporting the operating departments
    • Purpose of the finance and accounting function
  • Personal organization and time management
    • The new skills set
    • Delegation and priorities
    • Delegation characteristics
    • Rules of delegation
    • Handling meetings effectively
    • Maintaining clean desk policy
    • Managing your in-box
    • Peak performance time
  • Managing the finance function
    • Hiring the best people
    • Identifying recruitment criteria
    • Developing interviewing skills
    • Interpersonal communication
    • Fundamentals of communication skills
    • Personality communication styles
    • The attitude and skills matrix
    • Evaluating finance staff performance
    • Employee motivation tools
  • Key Excel functions and tools to enhance efficiency
    • Consolidating multiple sets of data
    • Applying control at the data entry through data validation
    • Reconciling accounts by using 'vlookup'
  • Organizing the finance function
    • Teamwork skills in finance and accounting
    • Assessing the need for team building program
    • Finance as a project
    • Organizing by function
    • Organizing by purpose
    • Staff duties and responsibilities
    • The need for review and authorization procedures
    • The authorization matrix and control of processes in organizations
    • Cross training and backup strategies
    • Scheduling the monthly accounting cycle
  • Policies and procedures
    • Purposes of the policies and procedures manual
    • Documenting and communicating financial policies
    • Staff involvement and responsibilities
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National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)

Meirc Training & Consulting 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 for CPE credit.

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Schedule & Fees

2024 Schedule & Fees

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

2025 Schedule & Fees

Location & Date
18 - 22 May, 2025
Dubai
English
Venue to be assigned
7 - 11 Sep, 2025
Dubai
Arabic
Venue to be assigned
Fees
Per participant

USD 5500

Fees + VAT as applicable

(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)

Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

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