Chief Financial Officer Leadership Program

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Financial Analysis: Uncovering the Story Hidden within Financial Statements

Lecture 1: Why Financial Statements Exist

Lecture 2: Where to Look For Financial Information

Lecture 3: How to Analyze the Income Statement

Lecture 4: How to Analyze Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness

Lecture 5: How to Analyze a Balance Sheet

Lecture 6: How to Analyze Cash Flow

Lecture 7: How to Analyze a Company Quickly Using the Internet

Lecture 8: Financial Analysis Glossary and Reference Guide

Chapter 2: Financing Strategies

Lecture 1: Objectives of Capital

Lecture 2: Financing Lifecycle

Lecture 3: Managing Supplier Credit

Lecture 4: Variations of Debt Financing

Lecture 5: Negotiate Your Credit Facility

Lecture 6: Mezzanine Financing- What is it- Debt or Equity?

Lecture 7: Venture Capital Financing

Lecture 8: Private Equity Financing

Lecture 9: Going Public to Raise Financing

Lecture 10: Case Study: Financing a Leveraged Buyout

Lecture 11: WACC and Capital Structure: What You Need to Know

Lecture 12: Finance Strategies Course Script

Lecture 13: Financing Glossary

Chapter 3: Change Management! The Role of the Catalyst

Lecture 1: Why You Need to Know About Change Management Principles

Lecture 2: Challenges of Change

Lecture 3: Change from the Employee's Perspective

Lecture 4: Developing an Approach for your Next Change Initiative

Lecture 5: Adapting the Organization to Handle Continuous Change

Lecture 6: Change Management Course Script

Lecture 7: Business Process Improvement

Chapter 4: Safeguarding the Assets of Your Organization From Fraud

Lecture 1: Where is the Organization Vulnerable

Lecture 2: Understand the Psychological Profile of a Fraudster

Lecture 3: Best Practices to Safeguard the Organizations Assets

Lecture 4: Quantifying fraud

Lecture 5: Fraud Prevention and Detection

Lecture 6: Who is Committing Fraud Today

Lecture 7: Prosecuting Fraud

Lecture 8: Fraud Advice

Chapter 5: Developing Corporate Strategy: The CFO Strategist

Lecture 1: Strategic Management Framework

Lecture 2: Setting MIssion, Vision, and Values

Lecture 3: Strategy Documentation Worksheet

Lecture 4: Assess the Current Situation with External Analysis

Lecture 5: Assess the Current Situation with Internal Analysis

Lecture 6: Corporate Strategy Development

Lecture 7: Business Strategy Development

Lecture 8: Functional Strategy Development

Lecture 9: Analyzing Strategic Alternatives

Lecture 10: Approaches to Implementing Strategy

Lecture 11: Evaluating and Controlling Strategy Execution

Lecture 12: Strategy Facilitation Development Tool Kit

Lecture 13: Strategic Management Course Script

Lecture 14: Strategic Management Glossary

Chapter 6: Enterprise Risk Management using the COSO Model

Lecture 1: Objectives of the COSO ERM Framework

Lecture 2: Risk Management Starts With a Strong Internal Environment

Lecture 3: Risk Management Objectives Align with Business Objectives

Lecture 4: Identifying Risk Events

Lecture 5: Performing a Risk Assessment

Lecture 6: Developing a Risk Response

Lecture 7: Implementing Risk Control Activities

Lecture 8: Developing and Communicating Risk Information

Lecture 9: Monitoring Enterprise Risk

Chapter 7: CFO as the Credible Financial Leader

Lecture 1: Course introduction

Lecture 2: Credibility and Growth

Lecture 3: Assessing Your Own Credibility

Lecture 4: People Credibility

Lecture 5: Technology and Process Credibility

Chapter 8: The Fast Close

Lecture 1: Bottlenecks in the close process

Lecture 2: Approaches for achieving the fast close

Lecture 3: Making the fast close happen

Lecture 4: Conclusions for achieving the fast close

Chapter 9: Your First 100 Days as CFO

Lecture 1: Module introduction

Lecture 2: What the Competencies of the Modern CFO

Lecture 3: Assessing the maturity level of the finance function

Lecture 4: Team building

Lecture 5: Preparing a Strategic Plan for Finance

Lecture 6: Structuring the finance function

Lecture 7: Preparing for Change Management

Chapter 10: The Future of Finance

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Living Outside Our Comfort Zone

Lecture 3: Stages of Transformative Thinking

Lecture 4: Playing a Larger Role

Lecture 5: Redefining the Role of the Office

Lecture 6: A Focus on Employee Well-being

Lecture 7: Rethinking the Role of the Meeting

Lecture 8: Talent Management For the Future

Lecture 9: Disaster Recovery and Value Creation

Lecture 10: Relationship (Re)Building

Lecture 11: Sustainability and the Role of Finance

Lecture 12: Data!

Lecture 13: Branding Finance of the Future

Lecture 14: Course Wrap Up