FLP, the Finance Leadership Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

We're joined by CIMA member and former FLP student Shirley Henrick, who switched to the Finance Leadership Programme and attained CGMA after the opportunity arose during the Pandemic to complete her studies.  She talks about her career, her route to CGMA, and gives some invaluable advice based on her experiences.

The CGMA Finance Leadership Programme (FLP) , is the online pathway to the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ Professional Qualification. Find out more about the FLP at https://enroll.cgma.org/

Connect with show host Kevin Gormley via LinkedIn.

Your feedback and comments welcomed at [email protected]

This is a podcast from AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. To enjoy more conversations from our global community of accounting and finance professionals, explore our network of free shows here.

We're joined by Chris Roberts and Kim Hanson from our FLP Product team to talk about the new class onboarding feature that has been released as part of the Skills Plus subscription.  

Chris and Kim discuss how it works, the benefits to students, and how this will help guide them through the process of preparing to take a Case Study exam.

The CGMA Finance Leadership Programme (FLP) , is the online pathway to the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ Professional Qualification. Find out more about the FLP at https://enroll.cgma.org/

Contact show host Kevin Gormley via LinkedIn.

Your feedback and comments welcomed at [email protected]

This is a podcast from AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. To enjoy more conversations from our global community of accounting and finance professionals, explore our network of free shows here.

Nasheen Wuisman, Senior Manager- Academic Progression at AICPA & CIMA,  discusses the 'little book of secrets'. This is a new resource available to our students that are preparing for the Case Study exams.

The key benefit of this resource is to assist in targeting students attention to key preparation tools and techniques if they are short on time.

LINKS

• View 'The Little Book of Secrets' here.
• Connect with episode guest Nasheen Wuisman.
• The CGMA Finance Leadership Programme (FLP) , is the online pathway to the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ Professional Qualification. Find out more about the FLP at https://enroll.cgma.org/
• You'll find show host Kevin Gormley on LinkedIn.

Your feedback and comments welcomed at [email protected]

This is a podcast from AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. To enjoy more conversations from our global community of accounting and finance professionals, explore our network of free shows here.

"This is a known risk. What has been UNKNOWN...is the quantification!".

Ashok Noah, CPA, CGMA, FCMA is Managing Director of CGMA Learning, Education and Development at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. Christina Kite is Vice President, Global Business Strategy & Analytics at Oracle. This is a recording of a recent AICPA webcast interview in which Ash and Chris discussed the critical issues that business leaders face during the coronavirus crisis. They took questions and shared practical suggestions to help business leaders manage these unique circumstances.

TALKING POINTS.

•  What are the critical issues that business leaders face right now in the midst of the coronavirus crisis?
• How do they identify the key parts of their business most likely to be impacted?
• Where do they start prioritising the steps they need to take to mitigate these risks?

RESOURCES.

• AICPA coronavirus resource centre at www.aicpa.org/coronavirus
• CIMA coronavirus resource centre at www.cimaglobal.com/coronavirus.

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GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"Who knew that this is where we'd be? But this IS where we are".

We've put our pre-recorded interviews on hold for a while to concentrate on what's happening around us right now. We're talking about the coronavirus, sharing the AICPA & CIMA's official guidance, and introducing our new online resource centres offering support to our professional community across the world. We also look at our calendar of coronavirus-related webcasts coming up between now and the end of March 2020.

TALKING POINTS.

• The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants' guidance for members.
• How we are supporting and enabling our professional community with new online learning resources and virtual events?
• Where YOU can watch or listen to new webinars, podcasts and livestreams which put their finger directly on the pulse of remote service delivery, business impact and professional and personal resilience.
• The impact on AICPA & CIMA events worldwide.

RESOURCES.

• AICPA coronavirus resource centre at www.aicpa.org/coronavirus
• CIMA coronavirus resource centre at www.cimaglobal.com/coronavirus.
• Students can find exam information at MyCIMA. 
• Conference and event queries [email protected].

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via email. 

GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

I thought, "Right! THERE'S something for me to sign up to!".

(#100). For this milestone episode, we do something we've never done before: we interview one of our listeners. There's nothing more important than our audience so we thought it's time to highlight YOU! After we contacted many of those from around the world who'd emailed us since our show launched at AICPA ENGAGE 2018 conference in Las Vegas, we were delighted to arrange this fun and illuminating conversation with a listener all the way across the Atlantic - in the English city of Leeds.

TALKING POINTS.

• How did you discover the podcast?
• Why do you listen?
• What do you like about it?

RESOURCES.

• Jason listens to podcasts using Podcast Republic.
• Discover some of our other AICPA & CIMA shows like these from Journal of Accountancy, Financial Management, Small Firms Philosophy, Small Biz Brunch and other audio here.

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to  Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your  Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via  email. 

GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"Clearly, the companies that respond the quickest are the ones that are going to be most TRUSTED, most liked by their customer base".

(#99). Accounting and finance professionals work with numbers as well as people, and sometimes the situation with the numbers can cause difficult, stressful conversations. We hear from Allister Manson of Opus Restructuring LLP about tech, trust and transparency. He discusses how business and accounting professionals are integral to building trust – not just trust in financial information, but also trust in the integrity of the code and in the collection, retention and security of our data and personal information.

TALKING POINTS.

• How does an accountant or an auditor maintain the trust of a client in stressful situations?
• When trying to do the best for everyone involved, how do you make this clear when things can get difficult?
• How does one build trust when offering or supporting a service or technology that's new? 

OUR GUEST.

Allister Manson is a qualified chartered accountant and insolvency practitioner who heads the dedicated technology division for Opus Restructuring LLP, a UK-based national corporate services practice.

Currently the country's only technology specialist Insolvency Practitioner (IP), he has 20 years insolvency and restructuring experience, supporting businesses from start-ups to established software, hardware and tech service providers.

Allister previously worked at PwC, Smith & Williamson, and KPMG in the Cayman Islands. With tech experience that also comes from 5 years’ managing and advising Fintech companies in Latin America, he also supports up-and-coming tech businesses as a mentor at the Startupbootcamp. Connect with him on LinkedIn. 

RESOURCES.

• Bookmark the AICPA Technology  Resource hub at https://www.aicpa.org/technology
• Skill up with 'trust'-related material on the CGMA Store
• See more Human Intelligence Learning Programmes and Trust-related resources on the AICPA store website. 

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to  Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your  Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via  email. 

GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"It'll feed into other functions that the accounting practitioner NEEDS in what we're calling the 'blockchain world' . It's moving pretty fast."

(#98)  How will blockchain introduce and impact firms of all sizes? Introduced by  Kristen Hughes, an Associate Director of Technology at AICPA & CIMA, this recording features a conversation between Amy Vetter and Ron Quaranta of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. They discuss the adoption and impact of blockchain and cryptoassets.

OUR GUESTS.

Technologist and author Amy Vetter is a CEO who heads The B3 Method® Institute. She is a keynote speaker and Host of the Breaking Beliefs podcast. Connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyvettercpa.

Ron Quaranta is an advisor, author, entrepreneur, speaker and chairperson of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. He can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronquaranta/

LINKS

• Bookmark the AICPA Technology  Resource hub at https://www.aicpa.org/technology
• Find out more about the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance at https://www.wsba.co/
• Explore Amy Vetter's website at https://www.amyvetter.com/

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to  Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your  Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via  email. 

GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"It's really important to not just develop a strategy and let it be. Make sure that you ACTIVATE that strategy."

(#97)  Strategy. One word, many definitions, almost infinite possibilities. What is it? What makes it work? Where do you start? During her time here at the Association, Jennifer Gardner recorded this conversation with Sil Garaventa, Director of Sales Support for US Foods in North Carolina. This is a high-level exploration of strategy: when a company has resource limitations, the team has to make choices around where to focus. At the heart of it, that's strategy.

OUR GUEST.

With experience at US Foods, the AICPA and elsewhere, Sil Garaventa is a strategy consultant who helps tackle an organisation's most critical and challenging problems, defining strategic direction in a disrupted and rapidly changing business environment. He's a frequent speaker and facilitator on the topics of corporate strategy, strategic planning, and culture and engagement. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Know someone who'd enjoy this topic? Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to  Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your  Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via  email. 

GIVE FEEDBACK.

How did you discover our podcast, where do you listen, and what would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we'd love to know what you think. Email us here.

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

In mid March 2020 - just over a month's time - we will be recording our 100th episode. And we'd like YOU to be part of it, from wherever you are in the world. 

LET'S TALK

Happy to take a few minutes for an online voice call? Email us here with the word "Podcast" in the Subject line. The email address is [email protected] . 

We'll get in touch to arrange a quick online voice call at a time that suits you. It'd help to know things like

• Which part of the world are you in?
• What do you do for a living?
• Why you listen to this podcast? 
• What topics and trends would you like us to be focusing on over the course of our NEXT 100 shows?

SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORK.

Click on these links to share this episode with colleagues and friends.

• Recommend it to your  LinkedIn connections. 
• Send to  Twitter. 
• Auto-share on your  Facebook page. 
• Tell someone via  email. 

ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

Skill Up. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

Connect. #GoBeyondDisruption @AICPANews @CIMA_News

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)