Instructor
Jennifer is a Visibility Strategist working on your team’s professional brand, communication and connection skills to immediately influence and impact your organization’s success. Transform your accounting and finance professionals to admired advisors.
After 15 years as a CFO in manufacturing, construction, and services, Jennifer understands the difference between information and influence. As a keynote speaker Jennifer is known for being energetic and enthusiastic. She has presented to over 15,000 people in 48 states and 6 countries. She makes the complicated simple, practical and profitable.
Jennifer is the co-author of “Faster Disaster Recovery” published in 2019 by John Wiley and Sons. CPA Practice Advisor named Jennifer one of the Top 25 Women in Accounting in 2018. She was also named “2015 Woman to Watch” by the AICPA and MACPA. Jennifer has been awarded Outstanding Facilitator by the AICPA multiple years.
Jennifer earned the designation of Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), making her one of the only 10 people worldwide who hold both the CPA and CSP designations. Jennifer is Certified Virtual Presenter through e-speakers.
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How do you make the best business decisions in the face of political and economic uncertainty?
The Controller Series of courses will help you learn to lead where there is no path, over the course of (8) 1-hour online learning modules.
CONTROLLER SERIES INSTRUCTORS
Jennifer Elder, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFF, CGMA Jim Lindell, CPA, CSP, CGMA, MBA Peter Margaritis, CPA, CGMA, CSP
CONTROLLER SERIES COURSES
Insightful Financial Analysis: Anyone can “crunch numbers” but it takes special skills to make them meaningful to the user. Financial statements and ratios need to be interpreted correctly using a process that sets the context, identifies the right analysis tools, and makes recommendations in an understandable format. This course will help you present your insights in a way that is insightful and impactful to your client.
Beginning the Leadership Journey: As you advance in your career you will need to develop leadership skills to match your level. This course will help you start to develop your leadership skills in three areas: supervision, performance management, and delegation.
Communicating for Connections with Coworkers, Customers, and Stakeholders: How you communicate with your internal and external customer can make or break your career! We all know how to talk, but how do we make sure we are really connecting with others? This course will discuss different personality styles and demonstrate the different ways to communicate information to them. See how recognizing their personality style(s) can turn communication breakdowns into breakthroughs.
Technology – Must Have Excel Competencies: Excel has long been included in the accountant’s toolbox. Even though BI and Big Data tools such as Qlik, Tableau and Microsoft BI are becoming more important, Excel is still a “must have” tool. What should the accountants of today know about Excel to improve their efficiency, access data, and gain insights into the company, industry and economy.
Establishing, Maximizing, and Communicating Internal Controls: Internal controls are often misunderstood by our coworkers as “things that get in the way.” But a good system of internal controls will support getting work done the right way and protect against the ultimate failure – fraud. This session will review the intent and practical application of the COSO framework for maximum efficiency and protection.
Sending and Receiving the Gift of Feedback: In our daily professional and personal lives, we are constantly giving and receiving feedback. Feedback is essential to our overall personal and professional development. However, the perception of feedback tends to make the receiver very defensive and the sender seem abrasive. This course will provide strategies to give and accept feedback graciously, and provide non-offensive feedback and constructive criticism that encourages the person to work on their opportunities with enthusiasm and empowerment.
Best Practices: The Soft Close: We have transitioned from a hard and slow close to a soft and fast close. Accountants struggle with the balance between information accuracy and availability. To be successful, accountants must provide quicker information availability to impact organization results. Simply reporting on results is no longer acceptable.
The Biggest Mistakes That Will Get You Fired: There is plenty of information on what to do to advance your career, but very little is discussed about what can derail your career, or worse get you fired. This panel will discuss the mistakes to avoid as you climb the ladder of success.