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Friday, October 28, 2016 Live

Critical Thinking Skills for Financial Professionals (E1610292)

8:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Registration: 8:00 AM EDT

NJCPA Education Center

425 Eagle Rock Avenue,
Roseland , NJ 07068

4 CPE Credits in MT

OVERVIEW

Why do business leaders sometimes make decisions that severely damage themselves and their organizations? It is tempting to attribute poor choices to a leader’s assumed incompetence, inexperience, bad character or low intelligence – but reality is much more complex. Understand what factors really cause most blunders. When business decisions go badly wrong, financial professionals usually find themselves deeply involved. This seminar provides conceptual and case study material to better equip you for the challenge.

DESIGNED FOR

Corporate financial managers

BENEFITS

This seminar includes group discussion of three exercises or case studies.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Why critical thinking skills are so important to today’s financial professionals.
  • How to evaluate critical elements of a leader’s decision-quality capability
  • How to recognize factors that can sabotage decision-making by even highly capable people.
  • How to develop an organization’s talent for preempting threats before they become disasters
  • How to overcome three major decision quality obstacles: indecision, internal conflict, and time pressures

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

Diane White

Diane D. White, CPA, M.B.A., CMA

Executive Education, Inc.

Diane D. White, MBA, CPA, CMA Diane White is a management and financial consultant with 30 years of control and business leadership expertise in premier mortgage and commercial banking enterprises such as Freddie Mac and Wachovia Corporation. Her past responsibilities included strategic planning, budgeting, cost accounting, performance measurement, accounting, internal controls, management reporting, financial systems, SOX compliance, audits, and a variety of general management support services. Diane is also an avid Chesapeake Bay sailor, published poet and photojournalist.

PRICING

$159.00 - Member

$209.00 - Nonmember

Pre-Registration Closed

Online pre-registration for this event is now closed.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

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COURSE DEVELOPER

Executive Education, Inc.