Self-Study Course Details
Course Description

As the pace of business increases, organizations are relying more heavily on finance and accounting leaders to drive enterprise performance.  To succeed in this environment, a future-focused CPA will leverage the use of business analytics to expand their scope of influence beyond controllership.   This mindset will involve thinking beyond financial outcomes and considering cross-functional key performance indicators (KPIs) related to customer loyalty, process improvement, employee learning & growth, and innovation.  

In this course, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) expert Gary Cokins will illustrate how strategy maps, balanced scorecards, and KPIs can be designed and implemented to communicate strategic objectives across an enterprise along with how to measure customer profitability, and perform driver-based budgeting and rolling financial forecasts.

Learning Objectives
  • Recognize how to view enterprise performance management (EPM) as a seamless integration of managerial methods.
  • Discover how business analytics is an advance over business intelligence and where big data fits in.
  • Identify and differentiate strategic KPIs in a balanced scorecard and operational performance indicators (PIs) in dashboards.
  • Recognize implementation barriers such as behavioral resistance to change.
Prerequisites
  • None
Advanced Preparation

None

Author Details
  • Gary Cokins
    Gary Cokins

    Gary Cokins, CEO of "Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC": https://www.garycokins.com is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

    Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division and then served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then in 1988 with KPMG consulting. 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until 2012 Gary was in business development with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

    His two most recent books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics. His most recent book co-authored with Larry Maisel is Predictive Business Analytics published by John Wiley & Sons.

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