CPE Credits: 2

Field of Study 1: Finance

Program Level (Basic, Update, Intermediate, Advanced, Overview): Intermediate

Instructional Delivery Method: Group Internet Based

Course Registration Requirements: Online Registration

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This program is sponsored by Business Professionals' Network, IncBusiness Professionals' Network, Incis registered with the National State Board of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors under #107810.

Course Catalog Description:

#1 complaint of CEOs about their budget:  a lack of accountability.

Accountability is like quality—you only notice it when it’s not there.  Companies that create a common and acceptable definition of accountability foster strong commitment and personal responsibility.

This webcast provides participants with the complexities and facets of accountability.  Because accountability has a direct impact on your bottom line, we will explore ways to hold resource managers and employees accountable for their actions and decisions.

Ron Rael, Founder/High Road Leadership Institute, provides you with the insights on how to instill accountability throughout the budget process.  A proper budget enhances governance, while good governance requires an accountability enhancing budget.

Learning Objectives 

Upon successful completion of this webcast, participants will be able to:

• Summarize the traits of the High Road budget culture.
• Clear up the inherit misunderstanding about what accountability in general means and how it is reinforced.
• Identify and communicate the five ingredients that together with accountability make up the path for ethical conduct.
• Inspect their organization’s culture to determine if it contains the three cornerstones for a culture of accountability.
• Diagram for others what goes into leadership integrity.

• Immediately impact the accountability around their budget process by employing a budget responsibility statement.

Course Level:  Intermediate

 Course Index Area(s):

            Budgeting

            Financial Management

            Controllership

            Budget Accountability

            Accountability

            Governance

            Budget Culture

 NASBA Field(s) of Study:

Finance