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The Controllership Series - Addressing Budgeting Uncertainty

Tuesday, Feb. 16   3:00pm - 4:03pm

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1.00 Credits

Member Price $39.00

Non-Member Price $59.00

Overview

With new accounting standards, the economic landscape and evolving technology, accounting, financial reporting and finance continue to grow in complexity. FASB has tried to address the growing complexity, by working towards making GAAP less convoluted.  The struggle to stay on top of accounting financial reporting requirements and finance changes due to the economy continues for several reasons. Lack of in-house SMEs, managing high volumes of transactions, and data and evolving information technology systems.

In the future, executives must consider the challenges they will face in future years that will bring their own nuances and complexities. Budgeting is certainly one of those processes that must be evaluated and re-evaluated for efficiency. This session delves into the corporate budgeting process and discusses methods used and which methods may or may not allow for the organization’s to properly plan for a volatile future.

Objectives

  • Examine top challenges/opportunities
    • Evaluating budget uncertainty
  • Examine the types of budgeting processes
    • Incremental
    • Activity-based
    • Value proposition
    • Zero-based

Highlights

  • Accounting
  • Finance

Designed For

Controllers, Accountants, Finance Professionals, Auditors

Prerequisites

None

Preparation

None

Notice

Your webinar can be accessed via https://ctcpas.acpen.com/. If you do not have an ACPEN account, please sign up for an account using the email address you have on file with CTCPA.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MB, AICPA

Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MBA

Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies. In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees. The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.

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Non-Member Price $59.00

Member Price $39.00