Automation in Accounting & Finance

Jul 13, 2022 12:45pm ‐ Jul 13, 2022 1:45pm

Identification: INT2218

As associations face plateauing revenues and increased costs, accounting departments will be tasked to find efficiencies and cost savings in their area. If your accounting/finance team is spending valuable time on manual processes such as accounts payable, bank reconciliations and similar tasks, come see how technology has advanced to allow for automation of these and other processes, allowing your team to focus on more strategic work.

Learning Objectives:
  • • How to identify efficiencies and cost savings in routine accounting operations
  • • How advancements in technology, including cloud services, integration and automation have provided new opportunities for streamlining accounting operations
  • • How to evaluate in-house versus outsourcing alternatives for accounting operations functions of the enterprise

General Session: The Power of Consistency

Jul 13, 2022 2:00pm ‐ Jul 13, 2022 3:00pm

Identification: INT2219

Achieving greatness in the face of adversity requires creating a personal prosperity mindset that is designed to thrive in the face of adversity and succeed in the face of any challenge(s).

In this session, you will learn how to:

  • Get focused on what you want and what you must do today to create your ideal life and business.
  • Identify destructive “Junk in the Trunk” that will undermine your professional and personal success.
  • Create a Prosperity Plan to reference daily and get emotionally committed to your idea life and business.

General Session: The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullsh*t

Jul 14, 2022 8:00am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 9:15am

Identification: INT2220

What is BS and why is there so much of it? What effects does BS have on workplace communication and how can its unwanted effects be replaced by the many benefits of evidence-based communication? Apart from choosing to be smarter, there are critical benefits that, John suggests, our current way of thinking and communicating in the workplace often ignores. It’s time to stop the BS with better detection and better disposal of this insidious communicative substance.

During this session you’ll hear an eye-opening, groundbreaking, and evidenced-based tour of the causes, dysfunctions, and costs of BS, showing how it operates in our communicative culture and how you can make significantly better decisions in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:
  • A better understanding of the conditions under which business leaders are most likely to encounter bullshit positions them to better detect, and dispose of, bullshit.
  • Better understandings of the consequences of bullshit, and the critical questions to ask suspecting bullshitters, facilitate optimal decision making in the workplace.
  • A better understanding of the many benefits of relying on evidence-based communication and reasoning positions business leaders to make better decisions from hiring to investments to marketing and mergers.

Idea Exchange - Communications/Marketing

Jul 14, 2022 9:25am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 10:25am

Identification: INT2223


Idea Exchange - Communications/Marketing

Jul 14, 2022 9:25am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 10:25am

Identification: INT2223


Idea Exchange - Chief Staff Executive

Jul 14, 2022 9:25am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 10:25am

Identification: INT2225


Idea Exchange - Chief Staff Executive

Jul 14, 2022 9:25am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 10:25am

Identification: INT2225


Idea Exchange - Membership

Jul 14, 2022 9:25am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 10:25am

Identification: INT2228


Luncheon with the Chair of the Board

Jul 14, 2022 10:30am ‐ Jul 14, 2022 11:50am

Identification: INT2230


Professional Development Collaborations: Tools for Future Success

Jul 14, 2022 12:00pm ‐ Jul 14, 2022 1:00pm

Identification: INT2234