Overview

One of the most common criticisms of non-finance managers, executives, and directors is that they have difficulty understanding financial performance of their own organization. 

Often variance analysis is overwhelming, confusing, lacking in precision, begging more questions than it answers with superficial explanations. In this course, you will take a deep dive into how you can do variance analysis better. In the process, you will add significant value to management decision making.

Using an audience centric view, you will learn best practices using examples and case studies to improve traditional variance analysis using numbers and descriptive explanations. You will also learn to make variance analysis more visual through charts, graphs and images. Finally, you will explore different structures that help facilitate a conversation about organizational performance.

This impactful course is relevant to any financial professional involved in the preparation, reporting, review, or presentation of variance analysis. Honing this skill elevates your own executive presence and the level of influence and persuasiveness inside your organization.

Why you should Attend

Variance analysis is often a lost opportunity for financial professionals to make a strategic contribution to their organization - its dense, its too detailed or not detailed enough, its full of confusing commentary or unclear tables of numbers.  

Areas Covered in the Session

• Principles of persuasion
  
• Preparing traditional variance analysis using tables and narratives
  
• Using graphs and imagery to enhance storytelling
  
• Structuring variance analysis to facilitate strategic discussions

Who Will Benefit

• Controllers
  
• CFO
  
• Finance Analyst
  
• FP&A Professionals
  
• Director of Finance