Tom Coughlan covers how to define risk, identify nuances of various types of risk, strategies for risk response, and more.
Whether you take the CMA exam or not, using your CPE credits to review the material tested on the Certified Management Accountant exam will help you to close the skills gap and move from compiling and reporting the results to a seat at the management table.
For more than 40 years, the CMA (Certified Management Accountant) certification has been the global benchmark for management accountants and financial professionals. Why? Because CMAs can explain the "why" behind numbers, not just the "what." And that can give you greater credibility, higher earning potential, and ultimately a seat at the leadership table.
Using CPE credits to prepare for the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exam is a pathway to a more successful business career: one that opens doors, builds confidence, closes skills gaps, and lets you tap into a network of 85,000 professionals around the globe.
The CMA certification complements other credentials or degrees and tests for analytical and critical-thinking skills not covered in other exams. About one in three active CMAs in the U.S. are also CPAs.
The Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA) designation delivers:
1) The ability to see the big picture, both operational and financial.
2) The know-how to leverage technology, especially as it relates to gathering and analyzing data.
3) Insight into financial implications of business decisions and the ability to communicate them in way that is clear and jargon-free.
Publication Date: April 2017
Designed For
Financial officers, controllers and chief financial officers; financial, managerial and cost accountants; financial and business analysts; budget managers and analysts; risk managers; chief information officers and information technology professionals.
Topics Covered
- Risk and risk management
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Learning Objectives
- Define risk.
- Identify the types of risk and key elements of each.
- Explain risk management and its key steps.
- Explain the use of probabilities to assess risk.
- Identify strategies for risk response.
- Define Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and explain its key objectives, components, and benefits.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Committee of Sponsoring Organization's (COSO) ERM framework.
- Explain the role of corporate governance in ERM.
Level
Overview
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Finance (1 hour)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Tom Coghlan
Tom Coghlan, CMA, MBA has worked at the intersection of accounting, information technology and decision making for over 30 years. His diverse set of experiences and roles include serving as:
Founder of CPE University, LLC, a provider of online and in-person CPE programs in operational analysis, managerial accounting, decision making, and ethics. He is one of the top CMA exam review instructors in North America, and has helped hundreds of people prepare to take the CMA examination Founder of Appitur® Co., the developer of a mobile platform that provides exam prep companies with a branded app/web solution for their students to access study materials Business Fellow and Instructor at Villanova University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Accounting and Analytics, and was the Director of the Center for Business Analytics CFO and Director of Information Technology for a multi-national business unit of Imperial Chemical Industries Partner and Vice President of Client Services for FirstQuarter, Inc., where he led projects that helped clients including Cordis (division of Johnson & Johnson), Del Monte Foods, Alcon, Analog Devices, and Stantec maximize their technology investments
Tom earned a BS degree in Business Administration from Drexel University, and an MBA from LaSalle University. Tom is a Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA), and passed the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam in Pennsylvania.