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Common Sense CFO: Dealing with Ever Changing Accounting Standards and Strategy Demands


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Accounting - Technical

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Accounting and Auditing |  Personal Development |  ACPEN Industry Institute
Faculty:
Bob Mims, CPA
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

Dates
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Description

GAAP is changing at an increasing rate. Every successful organization has a sound strategy. Financial leaders are faced with the dual challenge of navigating evolving accounting standards while strategically guiding their organizations toward sustainable growth and profitability. What are the newer accounting changes that will impact professional accounting? This seminar will equip finance professionals with the critical skills and practical insights needed to effectively manage the complexities of ever-changing accounting standards and upgrade your essential strategic planning skills. Strategic skills are mandatory today. Strategies that do not keep pace with the market are doomed to fail. If we do not keep up, our successor will.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Equip finance professionals with the critical skills and practical insights needed to effectively manage the complexities of ever-changing accounting standards
  • Upgrade your essential strategic planning skills

Major Subjects
  • Understanding the modern finance and accounting organization chart
  • GAAP accounting changes
    • Why so many changes?
    • The speed of change and complexity
    • Accepting reality
    • Recognizing and fixing the top five accounting problems and errors
      • Leases
      • Revenue
      • Management estimates
  • Why is strategy necessary?
    • What is strategy?
  • The two keys to strategy?
    • Why do some financial leaders lack strategic skills?
    • Balancing strategy with our day-to-day roles

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Faculty

Bob Mims, CPA's Profile

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Bob Mims, CPA, is an entrepreneur and accounting/management executive based in Memphis, TN. He has served as a financial consultant across various industries in the role of planning, modeling and CFO capacities.  Bob has had the privilege of serving as chair on an AICPA committee and on two FASB advisory committees.  During his ten years with the accounting firm KPMG, he was selected national instructor of the year on three occasions. 
Bob graduated from the University of Mississippi, and enjoys outdoor sports with his wife, 5 children, 2 service dogs, and a 20-pound cat named ‘Squirt’.
 


Dates

Wed, Sep 03, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EDT
Sat, Sep 20, 2025 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EDT
Fri, Oct 10, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EDT
Tue, Oct 28, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:00pm EDT
Fri, Nov 07, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EST
Wed, Nov 19, 2025 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EST
Thu, Dec 04, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EST
Thu, Dec 18, 2025 - 07:00pm to 09:00pm EST
Sat, Dec 27, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EST
Tue, Jan 13, 2026 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EST
Fri, Jan 30, 2026 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EST
Tue, Feb 03, 2026 - 12:00pm to 02:00pm EST
Fri, Feb 20, 2026 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EST
Tue, Mar 10, 2026 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EDT
Fri, Mar 27, 2026 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EDT
Thu, Apr 02, 2026 - 12:00pm to 02:00pm EDT
Sat, Apr 18, 2026 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EDT
Fri, May 08, 2026 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EDT
Tue, May 26, 2026 - 07:00pm to 09:00pm EDT
Sat, Jun 06, 2026 - 12:00pm to 02:00pm EDT
Tue, Jun 09, 2026 - 02:00pm to 04:00pm EDT
Mon, Jun 22, 2026 - 04:00pm to 06:00pm EDT

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process
Original Recording Date 08/2025
Course Developer The Knowledge Institute
Date Added to Catalog 04/2025
Yellow Book No

Additional Information

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Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. 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. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method

Group Internet Based


Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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