AFP Conversations Podcast

Sheila Heen previews her AFP 2021 Executive Institute keynote on navigating difficult conversations for leaders.

Drew Wolff, CFO of International and Channel Development at Starbucks, discusses his career journey and how it relates to the treasury and finance profession.

Vikram Mansharamani previews his AFP 2021 FP&A Keynote on the generalist advantage and capturing missed opportunities.

Karlo Bustos and Bryan Lapidus discuss finance leadership across the business enterprise and managing the finance function.

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.