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Management Succession: Is Your Leadership Team Ready to Lead Without You?
September 04, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Mike Becher, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1 CPE Credit: Business Management & Organization
Private enterprise owners often plan carefully for the transfer of ownership of their business interests. How can they also prepare the businesses for succession of their management teams? We'll discuss:
- Assessing your overall vision and strategy for business succession and related issues, including identifying and preparing future leaders.
- Talents and skills the successor management team will need, and strategies and leading practices for addressing gaps.
- A case study illustrating how unseen obstacles can stall progress
Understand the importance of and time frame for management succession planning so you can effectively prepare your business for the future.
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Extended Business Relationships: Managing Risk in a Challenging Economy
August 21, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Steve Wagner, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1 CPE Credit: Management Advisory Services
During an economic downturn, companies place greater emphasis on optimizing costs and revenues – activities that are often exacerbated by dependency on other entities. Reviewing information from business processes in your extended enterprise may represent opportunities to generate value. How can you maximize value from extended business relationships while minimizing risks to your organization? We'll discuss:
- Identifying and assessing key business partner risks.
- Evaluating effectiveness of your business partner's controls and accuracy of information flows.
- Understanding compliance of monetary and nonmonetary obligations.
Learn how you can improve business relationships by evaluating and reducing inherent and residual risks to your organization.
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IT Internal Audit: Beyond Compliance to Risk Intelligence
September 25, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Steve Wagner, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1 CPE Credit: Management Advisory Services
Since Sarbanes-Oxley's enactment, internal audit departments have focused on addressing IT internal control issues related to financial systems. With a handle on this area of compliance, how might IT internal audit move forward to address other organizational risks and drive value? We'll discuss:
- How a comprehensive view of organizational IT risks can support business strategy.
- How an understanding of future technology risks can support more informed decision making.
- Why IT internal audit should be brought into new product discussions early to assess potential technology risks.
Understand how connecting technology to business issues can help mitigate risk and drive value throughout the enterprise.
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Charting the Course - Mergers, Acquisitions, and Distressed Businesses
September 10, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: David Williams, Principal - Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
1 CPE Credit: Management Advisory Services
In today's unpredictable market, companies are looking for ways to identify and maximize opportunities in their M&A strategy, paying particular attention to businesses that may be in trouble. How can buyers and sellers of distressed businesses execute a successful transaction in a volatile market? We'll discuss:
- The importance of distressed due diligence, and nuances to consider.
- Areas and procedures that are often overlooked when dealing with troubled entities.
- Deal execution structures, including asset versus stock transactions and 363 sales.
Learn how you can take advantage of the risks and challenges of an economic downturn when executing a deal involving a distressed company.
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Audit Committees: Time for Renewed Focus on Management Decision Making
September 03, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Steve Wagner, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1 CPE Credit: Management Advisory Services
After years of focusing on compliance due to new laws, regulations, and best practices, audit committees are now shifting their attention to the value they provide in board and management decision making. What steps can your audit committee take to determine how its members might generate greater value? We'll discuss:
- How to implement an audit committee assessment process to identify areas for improvement.
- How to document and implement improvement recommendations.
- The finance team's role in improving audit committee meetings, information, communication, education, and leadership.
Learn how financial executives can positively influence the value-add of audit committees.
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Finance Function Performance: How Executives Use Industry Benchmarking to Raise the Bar
September 17, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 GMT)
Host: Richard Rorem, Principal - Deloitte Consulting LLP
1 CPE Credit: Management Advisory Services
Forward-thinking finance executives use industry benchmarking to continuously improve the efficiency of finance operations while still controlling costs. In what ways? We'll discuss:
- The performance gaps between median- and low-cost finance organizations based on the results of a recent Deloitte Global Benchmarking Center study.
- Effective practices correlating with improved finance performance.
- A case study in the insurance industry that reveals performance opportunities in finance operations as compared with other industries.
Explore measures adopted by financially successful companies to continually improve the finance function – and ways you can use those practices to benefit your company.
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FAS 109 and FIN 48 Processes: Time to Go Back to Basics?
September 22, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Rita Benassi, Partner - Deloitte Tax LLP
1 CPE Credit: Accounting
Tax issues are still a major source of significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. How are leading companies responding? We'll discuss:
- Common weaknesses in tax provision processes, including tight timelines, data collection, and reliance on spreadsheets.
- Leading practices for improving the tax provision process, including the integration of current payable reconciliations, deferred tax account validations, alignment with compliance, and automation.
- Risk mitigation through the better management of people, process, and technology.
Learn how a back-to-basics approach can help you improve your tax provision processes and internal controls.
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EITF Roundup: Highlights of the September Meeting
September 16, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Robert Uhl, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.5 CPE Credits: Accounting
The FASB's Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) will meet in September to review emerging issues. We'll discuss the results of this meeting, which we expect will include:
- Issues not resolved at the June 2008 meeting.
- Additional issues added to the EITF agenda.
Stay in touch with new accounting guidance and potential future guidance resulting from the deliberations of the EITF.
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Quarterly Accounting Roundup: An Update of Important Developments
September 24, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
Host: Robert Uhl, Partner - Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.5 CPE Credits: Accounting
Do you know what issues the standard-setters and regulators have been addressing lately? We've been monitoring their projects and will discuss:
- Quarterly update of accounting developments.
- Recent positions of the FASB and SEC staffs.
- Other hot topics.
Join us to hear about the latest developments.
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