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Controller’s Handbook, 2nd Edition

Controller’s Handbook, 2nd Edition

Author: Nick Shepherd
Publisher: CCH Canada
ISBN: 9781553679622
Published In: January 2009
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Canada ? Disclaimer:
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Controller's Handbook focuses on practical ways to meet the many challenges faced by controllers and financial managers in small and medium-sized companies and provides guidance to ensure sound financial controllership. It uses the Plan, Do, Check and Act (PDCA) management model to effectively deploy organizational resources to achieve planned outcomes. Also provided are checklists to help controllers focus on implementing key tools.

Topics covered:

Planning management
Core accounting process management
Reporting and information management
People and relationship management
Special situations

Updates include:

Expanded material on ethics, corporate governance, and internal controls
Improved and additional checklists, useful forms, insightful tips, and situation summaries
Updated appendices on further reading and references

Introduction
Planning: developing plans and strategies
Execution: developing and managing effective processes
Relationship management: building the networks for success
Checking: building a performance-measurement system
Using fact-based decision making to take action
Special situations
References
Appendices and templates

Nick Shepherd, FCMC, CGA, FCCA, has more than 40 years of business experience. Since 1989, he has run his own management consulting and professional development company, EduVision Inc., which provides management consulting and development services to public and private sector organizations.

A fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Ontario (Honour Roll), and past president of the Institute, Nick is past chair of the National Certification Committee for all Institutes of Management Consulting across Canada and is also past chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. He has been a Certified General Accountant for over 25 years, and is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK), a senior member of the American Society for Quality, and past chair of the Quality Costs Committee of the Management Quality Division. He is also a member of Mensa Canada.

Nick is a well-known professional development facilitator, and teaches both the three-day Essentials of Controllership program and the two-day Decision Making and Costing for Controllers advanced program. He also presents many professional development workshops across Canada annually. In 2006, he received the President's Award for Education from the Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia.