Finance Organization Assessment and Improvement

The Office of the State Controller’s Audit, Risk, and Compliance Services staff are pleased to announce our upcoming internal controls webinar - Finance Organization and Assessment.

The webinar, which will be held on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, will begin promptly at 10:00 am. The webinar is being provided at no charge to all state agencies, universities, and community colleges and qualifies for one hour of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.

The suggested audience for this webinar includes front-line managers, supervisors and staff in accounting and finance and ancillary functions who are focused on process improvement. Each participant who plans to view the webinar and/or request CPE credit must register in advance. No CPE credit will be provided to non-registered participants.

For further information, please visit the OSC website. 

For any questions regarding the registration process, please contact Jan Prevo at 919-707-0714 or jan.prevo@osc.nc.gov.

Thank you, 

Ben McLawhorn

Overview:

To present the methodologies and tools used to evaluate and improve risk and operations in a finance organization. 

Objectives:

• Discuss opportunity and challenge of finance transformation in public sector
• Benchmarking resources against your peers
• Measuring operational activities using subjective criteria including risk and effort
• Survey tools that help assessment and improvement

Date and Time:

Tuesday, May 11, 2021  10:00 am – 11:00 am

Who Will Benefit:

Front-line managers, supervisors and staff in accounting and finance and ancillary functions who are focused on process improvement. 

CPE Logistics

CPE Credit: One (1) hour
Field of Study: Auditing
Materials: Will be provided on OSC website
Instructional delivery method: Group internet based
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None
Level: Basic
Webinar Developer: Cherry Bekaert
Webinar Sponsor: NC Office of the State Controller
 

NOTE: There will be NO site administrator or group registrations for this webinar. During the webinar, participants are required to be logged on individually for no less than 50 minutes of the webinar and respond to three polling questions to receive CPE credit. Your time will be tracked to accurately award one (1) hour of CPE credit.

IMPORTANT: There will be NO partial credit given. If you watch this as a group, there will be NO CPE credit awarded. 

Speaker:

Nick Stone - Cherry Bekaert

A partner in Cherry Bekaert’s Risk & Accounting Advisory Services practice and Risk Advisory leader, Nick helps businesses implement sustainable enterprise risk management programs by optimizing internal control systems and elevating actionable enterprise data. He provides clients a range of advisory and assurance services, including financial system and process design, business intelligence solution delivery, internal audit co-sourcing, internal control assessment, and post-acquisition integration. Nick supports multiple industries including public sector, financial services, manufacturing, and technology. Possessing more than 20 years of experience spanning accounting, finance and operations, Nick began his career at a Fortune 500 multinational corporation as a Software Engineer. He later transitioned to a Big Four accounting firm, where he was responsible for managing global integrated audit procedures at several public multinational corporations and then leading the system and process assurance practice supporting the Mid-Atlantic region. Prior to joining Cherry Bekaert, Nick served for eight years in leadership roles including Corporate Audit, Financial Planning and Analysis Director and Sales Controller for a large public, multi-national semiconductor company.