Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting

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Getting monthly reporting right is essential for any business. This course helps you create timely, relevant, and reliable reports that meet user needs and significantly increase the chances of business success.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting

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This course will enable you to

  • Ensure your monthly reporting process is fast and effective
  • Understand the key principles and core requirements in monthly reporting.
  • Choose the right data systems to support your process
  • Review existing reports to ensure they’re relevant and fit for purpose
  • Tailor your reports to meet the needs of their users

About the course

The monthly reporting process is crucial for providing quality information to aid organisational decision-making. If taken for granted there is a real risk of missing opportunities, and key warning signs.

Practical issues like IT systems, resource constraints, and organisational culture are key, but you also need to focus on good practice and continual improvement. Integrating financial and non-financial information is increasingly necessary, as is, with so much data available, striking a balance to avoid information overload.

Discover how to create monthly reports that are timely, relevant, reliable, and easy to understand, so you can meet user needs and drive business success.

Contents

Key principles

Why is monthly reporting important?
Organisational culture
Factors that influence the monthly report
Presentation, timing and relevance
Accuracy versus timeliness
Reliability

The importance of data

Choosing the right information system
IT systems
Maximising the benefits
The importance of reconciliations
Reconciliations
The Chart of Accounts

Managing the process

The importance of process
The overall approach
Communication and data exchange
Exception reporting and suspense accounts
What can make a monthly report late?
Timing of activities
Capacity building

The contents

What should be included?
The content of monthly financial reports
Integrated reporting
Variance analysis
Meeting user needs
User needs
Final advice

How it works

Author

Wayne Bartlett

Wayne Bartlett

Wayne is an internationally acclaimed speaker and trainer on all aspects of public and private sector accounting and auditing standards. He has been instrumental in helping to develop the profession internationally and has taken lead roles in the development of new professional bodies and the accounting profession in Mozambique and Rwanda, and been extensively involved in developing financial reporting in many countries across the globe.