Understanding the Best Uses of Finance in the Cloud

Nov 15, 2018 1:30pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 2:45pm

Identification: CAM1819

New Tools and existing applications fit so well in the Cloud - all helping you be a leader in your leadership team as Controller/CFO. See leading industry uses that started in the Cloud, or have moved to the Cloud.

  • Understanding where Azure or Amazon Web services fits - including costs and management.
  • Shared files - more than having access to them - but rather focusing on collaboration that you can leverage.
  • Tools to manage and publish your KPIs.
  • Financial Reporting - still important - and how to leverage the Cloud.

PACCAR's Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Nov 15, 2018 1:30pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 2:45pm

Identification: CAM1821

Come hear from Kyle Quinn, Chief Technology Officer at PACCAR disucss their new Silicon Valley Innovation Center home of the worlds top innovators.

  • Hear how investing in technology can drive successful manufacturing. Learn about innovation trends in advanced driver assited systems, robotics, and how this will affect all industries.

Presenting Financial Information to Non-Financial People

Nov 15, 2018 3:05pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 3:55pm

Identification: CAM1822

How to use tools like dashboards and other non traditional financial data to explain a company's financial results to non financial people.

  • Learn to speak the language of your audience when talking about financial matters.
  • To use other tools other than traditional financial data to explain a company's financial position.

The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

Nov 15, 2018 3:05pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 3:55pm

Identification: CAM1823

Responsibility without authority is a recipe for frustration. Yet every day you are placed in situations where you are expected to make change happen with limited resources and limited support. Your ability to get opinionated people to accept your opinion depends as much on how people feel about you as it does on the facts and data you present. 

Join Mary Legakis Engel as she helps you master your influence with three powerful questioning skills that have been proven to create behaviour change within organizations and individuals alike. You'll also learn about new discoveries in science and personality theory that affect your ability to influence others with whom you work. Practice improving the quality of your conversations so you have a bigger impact in your role. Get your job done better and faster with the art of asking powerful questions.

  • Experience the transformational power of powerful listening, and be coached live.
  • Improve the quality of your conversations at the office and at home
  • Increase your influence with your team and colleagues (and maybe even your family)
  • Get all your questions about management answered, with live coaching on the spot

Best In Class Logistics - Maximizing Margins, Growth, and Competitive Positioning

Nov 15, 2018 3:05pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 3:55pm

Identification: CAM1824

Every manufacturing company is looking for innovative ways to improve their bottom line. In this session, we will review how many manufacturing companies are using the Logistics discipline to maximize their margins, drive business growth, and improve their competitive positioning.

  • As a trusted advisor to your manufacturing clients you will have gain a working knowledge on how to identify untapped potential and opportunity that can be realized when your manufacturing clients adopt a best in class mindset in developing and enhancing their Logistics strategies and processes
  • Learn how best in class manufacturing companies are leveraging Logistics for additional financial gain, improvements to competitive positioning, and increased business valuation

Creating an AWESOME FP&A Team

Nov 15, 2018 3:05pm ‐ Nov 15, 2018 3:55pm

Identification: CAM1825


Are your planning initiatives coming together--including hitting those top line and net income targets? Does your team find itself stuck in a seemingly endless loop of negotiations, as budget inputs are submitted and rejected? How can your Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team break free? How can your process change from awful to AWESOME?

This session explores how you can convert your FP&A team into a destination department where finance professionals are lining up to join. Why? Because they know that they will learn faster, expand their skill sets, and have great fun. See how to apply collected best practices and case examples to find out how FP&A is becoming to the path to leadership.

  • Learning Objectives: 1. Identify why most budgeting efforts quickly devolve into a game of sandbagging and minimizing expectations, and learn what you can do to reverse this trend.
  • 2. Examine how new process approaches and innovative technology are combining to create a faster, more agile planning function.
  • 3. Explore how your team members can become better business partners fully supporting operations and front-line decision making.
  • 4. Case examples will show how creative leaders have put fun back into running the FP&A function, creating a “destination department” where engaged and innovative people line up to join and speed up their career development.

Sales Tax Update

Nov 16, 2018 7:00am ‐ Nov 16, 2018 7:50am

Identification: CAM18205

During the session attendees will receive an update on sales tax nexus standards, the US Supreme Court Wayfair case and Federal nexus legislation, as well as hot topics regarding sales tax treatment of e-commerce and cloud computing.

  • Learn about evolving multistate sales tax nexus standards at state and Federal level
  • Learn about changing sales tax laws impacting sales tax treatment of e-commerce and cloud computing

Top 5 Technology Trends Controllers & CFOs Need to Know

Nov 16, 2018 7:00am ‐ Nov 16, 2018 7:50am

Identification: CAM18206

From blockchain to remote work, if you want to be an effective leader, you need to understand the technology that’s rapidly changing how teams work. Join us for an overview of these trends, how they’re disrupting organizations and business models, and how controllers and CFOs can leverage new technologies to their advantage.

  • Learn what new technologies are becoming increasingly popular among accounting managers and controllers and the value they deliver to accounting organizations.
  • Be able to give an overview of the key technology trends that are changing accounting and finance over the next ten years.
  • Know how controllers and CFOs can leverage cloud accounting technology to build more effective and efficient teams.

Controllers Announcements & Introduction & Managing Transformation in a Fast-Changing Business Environment

Nov 16, 2018 7:55am ‐ Nov 16, 2018 9:15am

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The pace of change has accelerated as fast technological changes have enabled dramatic disruption in the way businesses compete and people live and interact. Well-established Consumer Product companies are challenged by small firms, which are entering the industry with innovative products and services that are in tune with new emerging trends. What is different now from just 5 years ago? Why are small companies driving growth in the consumer products industry? How have technological advances changed the game in the industry? How a new vibrant Health & Wellness culture is leaving mainstream offers behind? What should companies do differently to operate in this new business environment and achieve higher growth rates? These are some of the questions that Hershey and other industry leaders have assessed in recent years. This presentation analyzes the current business environment and provides an example of Hershey's approach to transforming the business to navigate fast-changing consumer and technological trends.

  • Analysis of current business environment.
  • Provide examples of Hershey's approach to transforming the business to navigate fast-changing consumer and technological trends.
  • Discuss most effective ways to managed transformation in a fast-changing business environment.

Manufacturing Announcements & Introduction & Digital Security Update - Business and Personal Angles

Nov 16, 2018 7:55am ‐ Nov 16, 2018 9:15am

Identification: CAM1828

Hear the current state of cyber risk in our business and personal lives, and how these crimes of the future can directly affect your career, and (more importantly) your family and friends. This moderately irreverent session discusses some of the more notable cyber risks we all face, most of which we're unaware of, and what you can do to protect against some of them.

  • Understand the breadth of data we're all leaking in our everyday lives, and how companies are using this data for power and profit.
  • Learn some well-tested methods to reduce your business risk.
  • Learn how to protect yourself and your family from risks you may not have known exist.