Jointly organized by:

De Novo Training & Consultancy Sdn Bhd & High Pines Training & Consultancy Sdn Bhd

Color Accounting –

Financial Communications Leadership for Professionals

When accounting comes alive, business makes sense

DATE: 5 JULY 2018 (9am TO 5pm)

VENUE:  1113, 11^th Floor, Lobby 4, Block A,  No.1 Jalan SS20/27, Damansara Intan

This program will improve communication at all levels of your organization. Your people will engage more powerfully about the financial aspect of your strategy, mission and business. They will be set to empower their business partners, team members, clients, and experts through clarity and simplicity.

After a decade of research, Color Accounting International has identified the root causes of – and solution to – financial communication breakdowns… Muddles that come at the expense of getting the job done, effective control, team morale, and corporate governance. This communication-leadership seminar gives managers the tools to explain themselves powerfully and generate their leadership.

HOW THE SEMINAR WORKS

The seminar distills the principles accounting and business finance down to a clearly understood common base. With agreement about the structure, language and mechanics of this common starting point, powerful communication becomes possible.

Besides gaining clarity on the principles of accounting, finance and business, the causes of financial miscommunication are identified. This means that they can be avoided. The cause of breakdowns includes ambiguity, collapsed concepts, inappropriate definitions, absence of the big-picture, switched points of view, and casual instead of formal language use.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Board of Directors, Finance Department, Accounting Firms.

Many senior and accomplished professionals are surprised at what they didn’t realize they hadn’t distinguished about financial communication. This seminar comes a pleasing surprise that they can put to use right away.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS

Participants all leave with a set of techniques and tools that they can continue to use in financial communication with their counterparts. And more than that, in the keeping with the leadership theme of the seminar, they can “pay the learning forward”. They will become teachers of communication themselves and share their learning. They have an opportunity to become leaders in raising the level of the financial conversation in their business.

BENEFITS OF BETTER FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION

• Greater alignment on objectives. They could be they high level corporate objectives such as improving Return on Equity, or specific project goals such as reducing a certain expense
• Less futile effort due to misunderstood instructions
• Shorter and more powerful meetings that result in clearer agreements and more focused action outcomes
• Happier, more appreciative clients who feel more understood
• More opportunity for improvement uncovered when all parties are “on the same page”
• More articulate and engaged employees who are confident to ask questions
• Greater cohesion between teams, such as the finance and operating units

WORKSHOP AGENDA

• Introduction to Financial Communication
  Welcome and explain the objectives and opportunity of the workshop.
• Baseline Review of Accounting and Finance Principles
  Using the visual Color Accounting system to establish a baseline. Participants revisit the principles of accounting as they apply to finance and business. Even old hands have new insights because of the holistic and visual Color Accounting approach.
• The Big Picture: Expressing the Business Purpose
  Linking of the accounting and finance principles to the purpose of the organization. Participants use the ultimate business objective to illustrate and frame communication practices.
• Communication as an Act of Creation
  Drilling down into communication itself: Exploring of the nature of communication in the workplace and miscommunication.
• 10 Communication Pitfalls
  Identify specific communication issues, including terminology, jargon, and acronyms to avoid and overcome.
• Wrap-up
  Commit to implementation and application and next steps.

LEARNING METHODOLOGY

Discovery-based learning with multi-sensory experiential activities, with use of case studies. Significant use of accelerated learning techniques. All major learning styles are covered.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER

Mark Robilliard, FCA
Co-founder & CEO Americas
Color Accounting International

Mark Robilliard is a Co-founder and CEO Americas of Color Accounting International, an education and publishing firm headquartered in Washington DC. He’s an Aussie who lives in the US and travels widely, leading seminars in financial statement and business acumen skills, for lawyers, bankers and business people. Some of his teaching for senior execs is done in secret.

He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and was theNational Training Manager for KPMG Australia. He has also managed the Human Resources Department for the largest insurer in Australia. He is on the adjunct faculty of American University and has taught at other secondary, tertiary and post-grad institutions in the US and Australia. He has co-authored a number of books, including Accounting Comes Alive: The Color Accounting Parable, and Color Accounting: The New Graphical System That Makes Learning Accounting Easy And Quick. He believes that Accounting Literacy is the under-appreciated foundation upon which all Financial Literacy and Business Acumen should be built.

PRICE

Existing De Novo & High Pines clients are entitled to additional 10% discount.

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