All accountants would like to find great, practical tips that can be applied at work, but where can they be found? This practical, high level seminar provides attendees with over 250 tips, many of which you can use at work. These are tips that are not normally found in courses or textbooks. Value will also be derived from the sharing of experiences and practices by the participants. This seminar “grows” continuously as new tips are added from past participants. It provides specific opportunities for bench-marking your practices with those of your peers. Over 1,200 Canadian accountants have attended this seminar to date.

Topics include:

• Financial reporting – great tips on key indicator reporting
• Getting the most out of your bank
• Smart business plans and forecasts
• Cash flow crisis – what to do when it happens
• Cost-cutting tips
• M&A, the good, the bad and the ugly
• Auditors and lawyers – minimizing costs System conversion dos and don’ts
• More creative thinking for accountants
• Insurance pointers
• When the sales department doesn’t listen
• Intelligent hiring & firing
• Leading your finance team

Who Will Benefit

Controllers, CFOs, Directors of Finance and Accounting Managers of small to medium-sized companies or their advisors who wish to get practical tips that will be useful in their daily work. Large company, government and not-for-profit accountants have also found the seminar useful.

Comments on This Seminar

• The course was awesome! First course that advertised tips and you actually had SO many!!
  Enjoyed this very practical in your face material
  The breadth of the course covers most of the issues faced by a Controller/CFO on a daily basis, very practical & useful
  I totally enjoyed your session. I found it is very insightful and extremely useful
  The seminar was entertaining
  Useful tips even after 35 years in practice
  The appeal was the practical examples that could be put to use immediately
  Excellent course, facilitator very interested in helping others and meeting people’s needs

Date: May 26, 2008
Time: 9 am - 5 pm
Location: The Holiday Inn Select Mississauga, 2565 Argentia Rd, beside the 401.
Cost: $395.00 plus GST for early registration

Seminar Leader

Stephen Priddle is a real, practicing CFO, rather than a professional seminar leader. He obtained his CA and CMA designations following graduation from Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree. After working with KPMG for five years, he moved to industry and has worked for several companies, including public and private companies in the high technology sector. During this time, he has obtained a wide range of financial reporting, treasury management, merger & acquisition and other business experience. He is currently Vice-President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Fidus Systems Inc. in Ottawa.

Stephen has extensive experience in teaching for Practical PD, the CGA program, provincial institutes of Chartered Accountants and he has been a moderator for the CMA Strategic Leadership Program. He was the top-rated speaker at the 2007 CGA Ontario Controller’s Congress. He has also taught at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. Stephen is a prolific author of published business, accounting and finance cases used by organizations across Canada.

Stephen weaves his tips, stories from his business experience and the input from participants, together with a dose of accounting humour to provide useful and engaging seminars.

More information and registration

Practical PD’s e-mail is practicalpd@igs.net and the phone number 613-228-0233

For more information on this seminar and to register, see Practical PD's website at www.practicalpd.com