What's keeping the FD awake at night?
1 day (6 CPD Hours)
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Programme
The ICAEW Annual Finance Director Conference is a leading practical industry event covering all the issues relevant to its senior audience.
The economic storm appears to be abating but there is still a trail of destruction in its wake affecting individual businesses and industry sectors all over the UK. But now is not the time to focus on the negative, a new positive role for the finance director has emerged from this tempest, that of leader.
The finance director has learned cost control and cost management lessons the hard way over the last 18 months but they have also learned the vital skill of leadership by balancing a prudent line between credit control and losing revenue by becoming sales preventative. Finance Directors are in the driving seat and are now key players at board level in driving the business forward to reach the next level of profitable growth.
This practical one day, interactive conference will bring delegates up to date on the latest trends, technical information and thinking in the field. Delegates will hear from their peers, chief executives and managing directors on the current and future challenges facing the finance function and what personal skills they will need to drive and deliver high performance strategies in the future.
09:30 – 09:35 Welcome by chair
09:35 – 10:20 What is keeping the FD awake at night?
In an evolving world post recession the challenges of the finance function have become core to the FD’s role. What is now expected of the team? What new demands are being made post recession? This session will look at the transforming role of the finance function and the FD’s role within it.
10:20 – 11:05 Investor relations, the FD’s role in improving effectiveness
11:05 – 11:20 Refreshments
11:20 – 12:05 Tax – the key strategic issues of current times – what the FD needs to know
Throughout the world attitudes to tax are changing and tax costs and risks for businesses are certain to increase.
What should the well informed Finance Director have at the top of his tax agenda?
12:05 – 12:50 Risk Management – an operational/benefit approach to help FDs
- From silos to synergy: the need for greater resilience
- New ideas on strategic crisis management
- Preparing and rehearsing to cope - before the event
- Threats, hazards and opportunities
- The commercial upside of Operational Risk Management
12:50 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 14:20 The NESTing instinct – Personal Accounts – the hour cometh has your business budgeted?
14:20 – 15:00 Financial reporting in brief
- Summary of financial reporting changes affecting this season
- A ‘birds ‘eye’ view of future changes
- Insights into the future of accounting
15:00 – 15:15 Refreshments
15:15 – 15:50 Hiring smartly the current employment skills gap
15:50 – 16:25 Closing the gap, FD to CEO
16:25 Round up and close by the chair
Benefits of attending
- An opportunity to explore their unique role with other finance directors
- A clearer insight into the FD’s boardroom responsibilities and how to fulfil them effectively
- An examination of corporate financial strategies in the current economic climate and how these support broader corporate aims
- Personal development in a leadership role at strategic level
Who should attend?
Finance directors and other senior finance professionals
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