AFP Conversations Podcast

Learn about the importance of learning as a skill and how to create a learning culture from Matt Smith, former chief learning officer at McKinsey.

Shawn Kanungo, an innovation strategist, presents a roadmap for facing technological disruption in finance. Join him at AFP 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Amy Edmonson previews her AFP 2021 Tuesday Keynote on successful teaming and innovation in crisis situations.

Jenny Okonkwo discusses implicit bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in organizations.

SkyStem is a leading provider of month-end close automation platforms. Its solution, ART, helps CFOs and controllers shorten the month-end close cycle and time to issue financials by automating balance sheet reconciliations, managing month-end tasks, performing flux and variance analysis, and providing insightful reporting.

In this episode of AFP Conversations, Tom Hunt, CTP, AFP’s Director of Treasury Services, sat down with Linda Harris, assistant corporate controller at Ichor Systems, and Nancy Wu, head of sales and customer support for SkyStem, to discuss the month-end close and reconciliation process, potential challenges teams may face, and best practices for adoption.

Visit SkyStem’s webiste for more information on month-end close automation platforms.

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Dan Seidman and Bryan Lapidus discuss the behavioral science of reading hidden emotions and its application in managing, coaching, and business partnering.

Scott Frisch shares AARP's strategic implementation of the Enterprise Dashboard for performance excellence.

Bryan Lapidus and Jesper Sorensen explore the transformation of finance into an analytics business partner for actionable insights.

In this episode of AFP Conversations, Jim Kaitz, President and CEO of AFP, is joined by Erica Dhawan, globally recognized leadership expert and AFP FinNext 2021 Virtual Closing Keynote, to preview her keynote: “Leading Digitally: Foster Human Engagement at Work.”

As the founder and CEO of Cotential and co-author of the bestselling book Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence, Dhawan teaches leaders 21st century collaboration skills and behaviors and is the world’s leading authority on Connectional Intelligence.

While remote collaboration and digital learning can be successful in the COVID-19 era, it can also be challenging to understand tone, body language and other non-verbal cues that provide meaningful context to communication. In this episode, Dhawan deep dives into new rules, tactics and nuances for effective digital body language to create intellectual and emotional connections – no matter the distance.

To learn more about digital body language, check out Dhawan’s best practice toolkit at ericadhawan.com/dbl and get a copy of her book at ericadhawan.com/digitalbodylanguage.

Dhawan is the Closing Keynote at the AFP FinNext Virtual 2021, taking place March 23 – 25. Click here to learn more about the event.

Linda Harris and Nancy Wu discuss the month-end close and reconciliation process, challenges, and best practices for adoption of automation.