Graduate School for Professionals

ASM CFO Program - For CFOs, Executive Board Members and Financial Controllers

The curriculum is presented over a intensive 5 day period divided into 10 sessions. Each session specifically tailored to optimize the learning experience. You will discuss strategies, test theories, and debate problems with your fellow peers and renowned faculty members.

Redefining the Role of the CFO

Objectives:

• The Job of the Chief Financial Officer
• The emerging expectations of, and the core "competencies" and "capabilities" of CFO
• Shifting boundaries of decision-making and the CFO function
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Industry Best practices and Benchmarking and Corporate treasury management
• Managing Stakeholders interest

Key takeaway:

• The forces driving change in the financial function and in the role of the CFO
• Enhance your contribution to the evolution of the financial function you operate in at present
• Develop and execute a plan for closing the "gaps" in your qualifications as a CFO
• Responding and managing legal and ethical issues
• Managing internal and external stakeholders expectation

Strategy Formulation and Execution

Learning Objectives:

• Revised Strategic direction and vision to align with financial resources
• Effective tools for formulating strategy
• Explore generic and non generic growth strategy
• Strategy Planning and resource allocation

Key takeaway:

• Diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of your organization's current approach to strategy making and execution
• Aligning corporate structure to the financial group's deliverables

Bringing together the Stakeholders

Learning Objectives:

• Working with a dominant CEO/chairman or board member
• Effective communication with stakeholders
• The role of teams in today's challenging external environment
• Where your leadership team is today on the “Team Performance Curve”
• Identifying core competence internal areas for development

Be able to:

• Perform more effectively as the leader or member of a team
• Diagnose and respond to the barriers to team performance inherent in the teams you lead or are a member
• Articulating business strategy to stakeholders
• Enhance investor and stakeholders relationship

Panel Discussion and exchange of ideas

• Sharing of experience amongst participants to examine how most CFO are adapting themselves to these changes
• Participants will also participate in panel discussion sharing key challenges and exchanging Peer feedback on personal action plans Panel discussion is highly effective as it provide participants with the platform to exchange strategies and information in a confidential environment with a dedicated group of likeminded peers whose goal is to enhance the skill set of one another.

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