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Onboarding can make or break a company’s effective utilization of a new hire. Most managers just take it for granted that new hires will be stumbling around for weeks and won’t be truly effective until they reach the six month mark.
Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are great at providing certain broad-based content across the company for consumption and training management. However, they are not good at providing something a critical group of professionals in accounting and finance need:
Why Your Corporate LMS Doesn’t Work for Your Finance and Accounting Organizations
The companies “core” LMS is a great place for centralized training and reporting resources, but it has pretty much failed to provide the training needed by the specialist employees in corporate accounting and finance – and they are all specialists.
Best Practices for Corporate Competency Assessments
Successful execution of every function hinges on the competency of individual employees. Managers want a consistent and uniform framework to determine the capabilities and proficiencies of their staff.
In today’s fast paced business environment, the concept of internal controls, emerging technologies, and fraud and risk are critical for all organizations to evaluate and properly manage.
Five Best Practices for Developing Experts on Your Team
Leaders across all functions are increasingly expressing concern about widening skill gaps. The competencies required of today’s corporate professionals are vast…
Five Habits of Successful Corporate Finance Leaders
Corporate finance is typically a very quiet but influential force within any successful company. Frequently, CFOs are chosen to succeed CEOs because they know so much about the inner workings of a company and they speak the investors’ language.
Illumeo 2019 Survey Of Professional Development for Accounting & Corporate Finance
Most mid- and large-sized companies have Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and spend a lot on training for managers and employees. What we found in our 2019 survey on professional development for audit, accounting and corporate finance…
What does being a “manager” even mean today? Lots of people with manager titles manage projects and stuff, not people. Some are supervisor, coach, partner, peer, leader – heck, the term “manager” has found and lost more meanings than most words in today’s business lexicon.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance costs companies significant dollars, and the compliance process and standards are constantly changing. Whether it’s the new COSO 2013 framework, legislation dealing with fraud, or pronouncements from the Public Companies and Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), individuals and organizations…
The Simple ROI of Professional Development for Finance and Accounting
It’s important to understand the ROI of training and professional development for corporate finance, accounting and related professionals. We lay it all out and make it easy.
Why Expert Certifications are Critical for Employees and Employers
Employees have always hungered for meaning and success in their careers; and employers have always sought continuous improvement from their people. Continuing professional certification is a clear path to delivering for both sets of stakeholders.