ARE YOU AN EMERGING LEADER?
To become a pioneer you need the skills and know-how to rise above the rest and become a leader in your field. SCACPA has the tools you need to reach the next level in your career.
SCACPA's 2010 Emerging Leaders Conference is specifically designed to help you develop the critical skills and competencies to achieve long-term success and satisfaction as a CPA. This event is unique in that it offers a chance to connect with up-and-coming CPAs all while obtaining necessary training in both technical and personal development topics. It's the perfect opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and network with other peers in the profession.
Now more than ever the profession needs pioneers like you. Are you ready?
Conference Objective:A forum for emerging leaders to develop critical skills and competencies needed to achieve long-term success and satisfaction in their careers as CPAs, and to develop their involvement in the profession through SCACPA.
Who Should Attend:The conference was designed by the SCACPA Young CPAs Leadership Cabinet for:
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Pioneer leaders not only know their next professional and personal moves, but also the direction in which their profession is heading. To kickoff the inaugural Emerging Leaders Conference, we'll explore ten paradigm shifts on the horizon for the CPA profession and what they mean to aspiring leaders.
Impacting Your Profession--> CPA Mobility; Tax Conformity; Reform LLR
Impacting Your Clients--> TRAC Commission; Current Year Election Activities; Decreasing State Appropriations
Advocating with Legislators--> Collaborating; Educating; Supporting
Building Legislator Connections--> Face to face introductions; Know their assistant; Hometown and CPA Day at the State House
Avenues of Involvement--> Key Person Contact (KPC); Political Action Committee (PAC); Legislative and Advocacy Committee
Connecting Social Circles--> Civic Clubs (Rotary, etc.); Charity Involvement; Your Employer
Developing Personal Competencies--> Build circle of influence in your community; Community participation activities for firm resume; Enhance your resume
Call to Action--> Connect with Legislator/KPC; Invest in PAC; Recruit other Young CPAs
This course is an “intermediate” level, meaning that users should be comfortable with the basic functions and operations of Excel.This course is interactive and will cover the topic areas outlined below. Each topic will be introduced, training will be given and each attendee will be given a dataset so that they can practice and ask questions during the course.Assumed Excel Knowledge• Creating, Opening and Saving files• Working with workbooks and worksheets• Entering data and selecting cells• Editing worksheet data (Find, Replace, Insert, Copy, Move, Sort etc)• Formatting workbooks (Text, cells, background, shading, patterns etc)• Basic FormulasCourse Content(1) Track Changes, Sharing Workbooks and Merging Data(2) Sorting and Filtering Data (3) Analyzing and summarizing data: With Subtotals and with PivotTables and/or Pivot charts (4) Conditional Formatting(5) Using the Auditing Toolbar(6) Formulas and functions (Logical, lookup and reference): SUMIF, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP; Depreciation (SLN, DDB); Payment Functions (NPV, IRR, MIRR); Others, if time permits
We will review two major topics: (1) Explore the state of ethics in the CPA profession (public perception, clues to potential issues, how to address it). (2) Should SC follow the lead of other states and require an annual ethics CPE class (public perception, marketing of CPA services, etc.)?
We will discuss what each person can do personally in preparing for their future and from there what they can do for others to add value as a trusted advisor through the “Road Blocks to Financial Success.”
Business etiquette today is no longer about the prim and proper, it is often why some people are more successful than others. Studies indicate personal savvy may be the difference of the people at the top and those not.
There are studies that indicate over half of all business is conducted over the dining table. This program will enable you to be more confident by understanding how to have a meeting over a meal, which allows business to be conducted in a more successful manner in any dining situation. There really is such a thing as a million dollar meal!
The lunch and learn includes the seminar, a multi-course tutorial lunch and workbook.
We will explore: (1) The critical nature of networking in a successful career. Sitting in the back room with a green eyeshade doing great work no longer works! (2) Common pitfalls and timewasters. The “fun” parts of networking can thwart all of your efforts, so beware. These include social events, social networking and image killers. (3) Setting priorities. Even if you are “Super-Young Professional,” you cannot do it all. How do you focus? (4) Becoming the “famous person.” How do you position yourself so that folks call you first?
