Fast Closing Monthly & Year-End Accounts

Depth understanding of fast close processes, policies and systems and how to improve your current close processes and systems to achieve world-class fast close goals. You will improve data quality and free up your finance staff to focus on activities that add greater value to your organization, such as business partnering, focusing on business forecasting and budgeting and participating in new project initiatives.

The course is comprehensive across the whole supply chain of information needed to achieve consolidated financial results. It will cover both fast close principles applied to the closure of your company’s local ledgers as well as the process of consolidation across the multiple companies making up your group.

You will also cover the appropriate best practices in quality control in recording transactions in the subsidiary,
Closing the books monthly and performing the group wide consolidation.
Furthermore, the course will include skill building that will allow you to identify necessary improvements, measure resource needs, and time lines for components of a closing process across the total information supply chain.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for those involved in finance, accounting, financial control, finance and information systems, financial accounting, administration, financial consolidation and external reporting.