This course will provide you hundreds of useful and practical tips for accountants working in the Not-For-Profit sector.
This course covers hundreds of useful tips for accountants who work for Not-For-Profit organizations. The tips are illustrated through concrete examples derived from real experience. As a finance leader, you are expected to be able to deal with a myriad of issues and situations. You have your experience and what you learned from colleagues and mentors, but this course will provide you with many more veteran tips, including many unconventional ones. You won’t find these tips in courses or textbooks, but you’ll be able to use many of them. An in-depth, financial reporting improvement case, set in the sector, will give you dozens of ideas to improve their financial reporting. The course was created and is presented by an experienced CFO, with extensive real-life insight, who has created a number of courses and has spoken to over 15,000 accountants.
In this video course, the instructor provides highlights from past live session discussions and polls. This course contains 1.0 verifiable ethics hours.
Past viewers of the video have said:
• It was filled with practical tips which I can put to use.. • The course was helpful for me as it provides different tips and suggestions that come from experience, and not from text books. This is exactly what I needed. • The course offers a lot of practical information that would be very useful to me • Very enjoyable course! I will be looking at more courses from you for next year. Thank you very much! • I learned and particularly liked the case study. • Thank you for all the material. Very useful. • Like that it was not theoretical and had lots of practical examples • Presenter very knowledgeable • Liked the portion on systems, NFPs are terrible at keeping up with technology and often don’t have the means, found your approach sensible and pragmatic
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Courses for Accountants. Stephen is also the Vice-President, Finance & CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc. In addition, he is a Board member, co-owner and Corporate Secretary of the SureWx group of companies, a global aviation business, which he was the CFO for 12 years previously. An engaging and experienced instructor, Stephen Priddle weaves practical tips together with stories from his business experience and input from participants. Seasoning the mix with a dose of accounting humour, he serves up useful and dynamic courses which have been attended by over 36,000. When speaking, he is candid about errors he has made in his career and the lessons that can be learned from them. Someone said: “humans are hard-wired to learn from stories” – Stephen is in part a business/accounting storyteller, who draws out the lessons from the stories. Stephen’s teaching experience includes presenting courses for over 70 accounting bodies and organizations in Canada and abroad. He has been a Session Leader in the CPA Professional Education Program, and has taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has moderated in the legacy CA, CMA and CGA program. Stephen is a prolific author. His published business, accounting and finance cases are used by many organizations. Stephen has nearly 40 years of varied business experience. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved into industry, where he has worked for public and private companies. He has gained a wide range of experience in financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business matters. Through his courses, he interacts with hundreds of financial leaders a year and thus stays on the leading edge in terms of best practices and hot topics. Stephen obtained his CPA, CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, accounting major.
