“One of
the best conferences I have been to – great value and highly professional
speakers” CIMA delegate at EMAT conference 2014.
Due to the
success of the EMAT conference held last year in Woburn, we are pleased to
announce that we will be running this event again in Leicestershire on Saturday
25th April.
Within the
area of management accounting there is almost an infinite number of tools,
methods, techniques and approaches, all promising to define and manage your
organisation’s strategy, resources, customers and costs. This event will
identify the right tools and help you obtain their full value.
Date: Saturday 25th April
Location: Hinckley Island Hotel, Watling Street
(A5), Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 3JA
Price: £85 (CIMA members and students: £75)
Early
Bird Discount: -
Book your place before 31 March 2015 and save £15; the
cost will be £60 members and students and £70 guests. Bookings from 1 April
will be charged at the full rate. To book, use the URL at the end of this feature.
Timings: -
9.20am Registration
9.50am Start
4.30pm Finish (approx).
Please
ensure your provide your MyCIMA login details at the top of the booking page
for the discount to be applied.
Price
includes buffet lunch, refreshments throughout the day, and a conference pack
with your copy of the CIMA report, ‘Essential tools for management accountants’.
What you can gain?
Outcome costing in the public sector
Covering
his paper which was chosen by the Scientific Review Panel as highly commended
at the World Congress of Accountants in Rome, Dr Macnab will provide an
overview on developing a practical means of achieving outcome budgeting in
public sector bodies to develop: -
• A
practical means of achieving outcome budgeting.
• Develop
a methodology to link costs (actual and budgeted) to outcomes.
• Share
experiences and to collaborate in meeting challenges.
This
session will also discuss techniques to evaluate cost effectiveness and value
for money from outcomes using the information extracted from the costing model.
KPI’s
• Why
KPI’s are so vital to good performance in business.
• How to
establish the right ones.
• How to
make them a positive motivating force for people.
Governance
• The
meaning of governance and the main business issues.
•
Leadership and the board.
• Practical
examples of what works well and what needs attention.
What makes good risk management good?
• Why
establish an enterprise risk management framework?
• What
makes for effective risk management? – the differentiator.
• How you
can establish an effective enterprise risk management framework?
The
session will explore a number of challenges that all organisations face in
creating and sustaining an effective enterprise risk management framework and
how these can be practically addressed and integrated into everyday business.
Building your reputation
Rob Brown
will be our master of ceremonies and will talk about adding an additional tool
to an accountant’s kit - reputation. He will enthuse and demonstrate the
importance of learning to “promote your brilliance”.
Speaker Details
Dr Alasdair Macnab FCMA, CGMA, Director of Corporate Services at the
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, has responsibilities for accountancy and
finance, human resource management, information and communications technology
services, estates and facilities management including major capital projects
such as the Gateway, commercial activities, and executive supervision of the
Botanics Trading Company. Alasdair serves on CIMA’s Research and Development
Panel as well as on other boards in Scotland.
Robin Tidd FCMA, CGMA is managing director of RTM Ltd
having led RTM’s team in over 300 business performance improvement projects and
management development projects. This work has been in a wide range of sectors
in organisations of all sizes. He has run over 200 managing directors’
workshops attended by over 3000 managing directors’ over the past 20 years. He
has been a CIMA council member since 2006 and is currently a member of UK Board
of CIMA.
Louis Cooper has over 20 years experience in
public practice having worked for all of the ‘Big four’ accounting firms and
for the last six years he has been lead partner of the risk and assurance team
at Crowe Clark Whitehill. He is a fellow chartered accountant and a member of
the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the Institute of Risk Management
(IRM) and the British Standards Institution (BSI).
Matt Humphrey is a consultant at Baker Tilley and
has over 25 years of business advisory experience. His particular focus is on
ensuring that sound governance and risk management prevails during the periods
of development, operation and growth to ensure that these entities become
commercially sustainable, represent value for money and are able to provide
quality services to customers, both now and in the future.
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