Extending the impact of finance across the enterprise – free seminar

Prof. F. Roodhooft, Deloitte and SAS in a seminar about the challenges of finance teams on Tuesday 26 April

Tervuren, 6 April 2005. In cooperation with Prof. Filip Roodhooft and Deloitte, SAS organizes a seminar on Tuesday 26 April about the need for finance teams to expand the boundaries of their information universe and how the newest concepts and trends in Activity-Based Management, Strategic Performance Management and Financial Management can help them to successfully deal with their key challenges.

Agenda

Prof. Filip Roodhooft, Professor of Accounting K.U.Leuven & Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, will explain how financial teams can go beyond the traditional financial metrics to successfully deal with their key challenges such as how to

• create sustainable processes to comply with regulatory requirements
• identify and capitalize on opportunities for profitable revenue growth and shareholder value creation while managing risk
• further reduce cost without hurting productivity and compliance
• do a better job in planning – predicting, anticipating and responding faster to changes in business and market conditions
• better align day-to-day operations with long–term strategic goals
• become and stay the trusted strategic advisor to the CEO and the Board

During 5 focused break-out sessions, domain experts from Deloitte and SAS will elaborate further on the challenges introduced by Prof. F. Roodhooft and share their visions, best practices, lessons learned and success stories through presentations and demonstrations.

The topics of the break-out sessions are

1. Activity-Based Management
2. Budgeting and Planning
3. Consolidation and Reporting
4. Strategic Performance Management
5. Compliance

Professor Filip Roodhooft

Filip Roodhooft earned a PhD in economics at the University of Antwerp in 1994. He is now full professor of accounting at the department of applied economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and chairman of the competence centre accountancy and finance at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.
He has taught in executive development programs at several business schools, including the London Business School, the Rochester MBA program in Bern, the University of Antwerp Management School, and Leti-Lovanium Sint Petersburg.

His research interests include the application of case study research and experimental research in cost and management accounting and the use of financial accounting databases in business economics. His research has been published in Accounting, Organisations and Society; the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Harvard Business Review; Journal of Cost Management; the European Journal of Operational Research; the Journal of the Operational Research Society; and the Journal of Supply Chain Management, among others.