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Jim Lindell is President of Thorsten Consulting, a strategic and financial consulting firm that offers professional speaking, training, and executive coaching. Over the past two decades, Jim has delivered over 5,000 hours of C-suite executive coaching. His professional experience includes Chief Financial Officer, VP-Finance, Corporate Controller, and Corporate Assistant Controller. Industries include manufacturing, healthcare, not-for-profit, distribution, and food processing.
Jim is a CPA and has received the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. Jim is a Vistage Chairman (Executive Coach and Facilitator) and responsible for two groups in the Milwaukee area.
Jim is the author of Controller as Business Manager, Controllers Annual Update (Best Seller,) Analytics and Big Data for Accountants, and many other courses on strategic and financial leadership. Jim has been published by the AICPA and Wiley.
Jim is a twelve-time recipient of the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.
Also, Jim is a member of the Irish rock/folk music group “Deep Pool” and is unwilling to admit that he may have played his last rugby match.
The role of the accountant will continue to morph at a rapid pace. The progression from bookkeeper to accountant to Controller/CFO has changed due to Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. Accountants will be more valued by what information they can derive and interpret to improve the organization instead of transaction aggregation and reporting. This course will highlight how Data Analytics, Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence will become a central component of the accountant's responsibilities.
Recognize how Data Analytics is an expectation of accountants. Reporting is a base commodity and must be improved with Data Analytics in the Accounting/Finance department.
•Identify how Visual application can complement and sometimes outweigh traditional financial reporting.
•Identify the four phases of analytics and their relationship to the accounting function and career advancement.
•Distinguish how Business Intelligence impacts the accounting role for staffing, data acquisition and analysis and machine learning (RPA).
•Recognize how Chat GPT and AI will impact data analytics.
101 S St Vrain Ave, Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado 80517
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Controllers, CFOs, Accounting professionals and CPAs looking to provide more value to their clients.