Controller as Business Manager

This publication will help finance and accounting managers understand and apply a critical set of financial and business management skill sets in order to become more integral contributors to the higher level business activities within their organization. With insight and examples the author will lead you through the strategies and thought processes that address key areas such as risk, communications, planning and profitability. The content emphasizes the additional roles that controllers and accounting managers are now playing within their organizations. It will show you a roadmap that can expand your role from a simple internal process / transaction orientation to an external orientation focused on understanding business, industry and macro trends.

This book will address:

• Controllers and accounting managers who are being increasingly called on to assume an enterprise-wide management role in their organizations.
• Tools and techniques that can have immediate impact.
• Sufficient business theory to inform, but deliver enough strong practical content to lead to actionable strategies.