FLP, the Finance Leadership Podcast

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EXTRA. Just A Quick Word In Your Ear: Going Beyond The Week... Nov 09, 2018

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"With the recent release of watchOS5, we've realised that there's an opportunity to share even more insights with our listeners".

Out and about this weekend? Want to reduce your screen time though not your podcast-listening time? Here's a quick introduction to something new we'll be bringing you very soon.

These podcasts will soon be going beyond the week...and offering you the occasional "Friday Focus" episode for the weekend too. They'll be related to particular events like conferences, editorial themes or Awareness Days.

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

YOUR COMMUNITY. Interviews with our international experts are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

DON'T MISS OUT. Go here to get the latest show every week, automatically and free. Share it easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on the media player.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

===CAN'T SEE THE LINKS? TRY THESE===

* Project Homepage is https://www.aicpa-cima.com/disruption.html.

* AICPA Store is https://www.aicpastore.com/gobeyonddisruption

* CGMA Store is https://www.cgmastore.com/products/disruption?utm_source=disruption-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=cgmastore&utm_content=show-notes

"The Role-Revolution Will NOT Be Televised" with Chris Argent of Vodafone UK and GenerationCFO (London, UK) GBD25 Nov 07, 2018

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"This change is people first, then technology, and not the other way around".

We're focusing on Robotics and Process-Automation this month, and our guest is just the man to outline how Human Intelligence should accompany RPA to transform a business at scale. Chris Argent talks to AICPA & CIMA's Kyle Hannan about the challenges faced by high performers. Chris will be a speaker at our forthcoming "Finance Transformation" conference in London and offers a deep and valuable experience of change in the profession.

OUR GUEST:

Chris Argent is a Business Intelligence and Analytics Programme Lead for Vodafone. He has moved from finance into finance transformation so is perfectly positioned to understand the challenges faced by high-performers in the profession as well as how they can develop themselves using what he calls a "loop of continuous improvement" Follow Chris at @ChristopherJLA and @GenerationCFO

WE DISCUSS:

changes in the finance profession sparked by RPA
plugging the education gap in the profession
how professionals are learning and developing themselves via networks and peers
The tangible value of 'intangible' data
How technology can enhance 'Performance Management'

RESOURCES WE MENTION:

Discover Gil Scott-Heron's seminal song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" via Wikipedia.
The AICPA-CIMA '"Finance Transformation" Conferences
Chris' online community Generation CFO

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

DON'T MISS OUT. Go here to get the latest show every week, automatically and free. Share it easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on the media player.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at the AICPA Store and the CGMA Store.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

===CAN'T SEE THE LINKS? TRY THESE===

* Project Homepage is https://www.aicpa-cima.com/disruption.html.

* AICPA Store is https://www.aicpastore.com/gobeyonddisruption

* CGMA Store is https://www.cgmastore.com/products/disruption?utm_source=disruption-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=cgmastore&utm_content=show-notes

"A Deep Dive into Cyber Risk Assessments" with IT Auditor Anthony Hargreaves of RSM (Seattle, USA) GBD24 Oct 31, 2018

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"In today's global marketplace, more and more decisions to do business with people and organisations are driven by their security posture"

On this final day of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the USA and CyberSec Month in the EU, we talk about the practical realities - and the recommended best practices - surrounding cyber risk assessments.

OUR GUEST:

Anthony Hargreaves is currently Director at RSM and an AICPA resource-contributor. An IT Auditor with many years of experience across the world, he's worked with all types of clients. From Seattle, he talks to AICPA & CIMA team members Liz Rock (Durham, NC) and Lindsay Patterson (Washington).

WE DISCUSS:

Why are cyber risk assessments so important?
How complex are they?
What's a Risk Register?
What are the most common risks organisations face?
Best practices for companies of all sizes, from 10 questions on an Excel spreadsheet to a global-scale Governance Risk and Compliance exercise.

RESOURCES WE MENTION:

www.COSO.org
More about Anthony Hargreaves http://not.aicpastore.com/speakers/anthony-hargreaves
Read his article on "5 Steps to a Scaleable Cybersecurity Programme" on our website at https://www.aicpa-cima.com/news/5-steps-for-a-scalable-cybersecurity-program.html
Keep up-to-date on cybersecurity trends and threats: the AICPA's Cybersecurity Resource Center is a great place to start. https://www.aicpa.org/cybersecurity?cid=referral:Insights:CyberMonth:view:aicpa&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Insights&utm_campaign=CyberMonth&utm_content=view
Using the CGMA website? See our risk-management resources at https://www.cgmastore.com/products/risk-management-and-internal-control?page=1&perPage=10&sortBy=mostRecent

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

DON'T MISS OUT. Get the latest show every week, automatically and free, at https://www.aicpa-cima.com/disruption.html. Share it easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on the media player.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Getting Ready To Be Paid In Crypto Currency" with blockchain expert Peter Rehm (Atlanta, USA). GBD23 Oct 24, 2018

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"In order to learn more...you have to become uncomfortable. You have to get out of your comfort zone! You have to get out there and talk to people".

Peter Rehm is our first returning guest on the podcast and describes himself as "a CPA who is also a technologically-orientated blockchainer". In the last week of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the USA and CyberSec Month in the EU, he talks to London-based AICPA & CIMA staffer Kyle Hannan about why people and companies may want to be paid in cryptocurrency.

OUR GUEST:

Peter Rehm is based in Atlanta and is a CPA who has presented with the AICPA on blockchain and supply chain. He's part of an Atlanta-based 3000-member Blockchain community called TAB (The Atlanta Blockchain. See https://www.linkedin.com/in/blockchaincpaexpert

WE DISCUSS:

* Why Atlanta, in Georgia, is a pivotal centre of the online transactional economy.

* Why professionals are looking at CC in a different way to most of the rest of us.

* How a finance professional sees cryptocurrency (CC).

* Good practices when being offered payment in CC.

* The most important things to implement when you're going to hold cryptocurrency.

* The size of the global cryptocurrency economy.

* The most common forms of crypto security, including 'hardware' wallets, 'hot' and 'cold' wallets, 'crypto steel', "multi-sig" wallets and more.

* Common cryptosecurity pitfalls and how to avoid them.

RESOURCES WE MENTION:

* Skill up with our AICPA COSO Enterprise Risk-Management Certificate Programme.

* In London later this year? Come along to our AICPA & CIMA CyberSecurity Europe conference on the 11th and 12th December.

* Find out more about the crypto economy at www.MarketCap.com.

* Consult the Vocabulary tab at www.bitcoin.org.

* Get the inside track from Jameson Lopp at www.lopp. net.

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Smishing: what you need to know" with Rod Griffin of Experian (Dallas, USA). GBD22 Oct 17, 2018

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"Smishing is a funny term to describe a very serious problem that's going to be more and more prevalent"

Rod Griffin is Director of Public Education at Experian, a leading credit reporting agency which aggregates information on over 1 billion individuals and businesses around the world. Speaking from the company's head office in Texas, Rod tells AICPA & CIMA's Orlando-based Samantha Delgado about how people can protect themselves against fraud and identity-theft and disrupt them right back.

OUR GUEST:

Rod Griffin leads Experian's US education initiatives and oversees their financial literacy grant programme. Catch up with his blog on the Experian website.

WE DISCUSS:

"smishing", "vishing" and "phishing".
the most common types of scams.
how fraudsters work.
how they steal information.
what to watch out for.
how to defend against scams.
basic, practical ways to protect yourself and your business against potentially fraudulent activity.

RESOURCES:

Skill up with our AICPA COSO Enterprise Risk-Management Certificate Programme.
See Experian's Fraud and Credit Education portal.
In London later this year? Come along to our AICPA & CIMA CyberSecurity Europe conference on the 11th and 12th December.

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Why Your Business WANTS To Be Hacked" with Lisa Traina of Capin Crouse (Baton Rouge,USA). GBD21 Oct 10, 2018

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" Information security and IT are two rather different things, and organisations don't realise that yet".

As EU CyberSec Month and USA Cybersecurity Awareness Month continue, so does our focus on online safety for business. Cybersecurity expert Lisa Traina introduces AICPA & CIMA staffer Julia Woislaw to the world of 'ethical hacking', a technique which saw her featured on NBC news.

OUR GUEST:

Lisa deploys over 30 years of experience as a CPA, CITP, and CGMA to assist financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, professional services firms, and other organizations in implementing measures to secure data and manage risks.

WE DISCUSS:

Common cybersecurity issues that any business should identify and fix as a priority.
What a 'white hat' hacker is.
Why a business may actually WANT to be hacked.
The 5 Steps that every business should take to boost their defences against cyber threats.

RESOURCES

Skill up with our AICPA COSO Enterprise Risk-Management Certificate Programme.
In London this December? Come along to our AICPA & CIMA CyberSecurity Europe conference on the 11th and 12th December.
Find Lisa Traina on LinkedIn.

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Cyber Safety for Cryptocurrency Investors" with Dr. Sean Stein Smith of CUNY (New York, USA). GBD20 Oct 03, 2018

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"This whole space is very volatile and very technical...so it's important to think carefully and to do your homework before putting your capital to work"

In conversation with Linsday Patterson (AICPA & CIMA, Washington DC), Dr. Smith shares how his work and research on blockchain and accounting technology enables him to offer some welcome illumination on this occasionally opaque intersection of technology, finance, and entrepreneurship.

OUR GUEST:

Dr. Sean Stein Smith is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance and an Inc. columnist. An Assistant Professor at Lehman College (CUNY), Dr. Stein is part of the AICPA Leadership Academy Class (2017), was named a "40 under 40" in the accounting profession by CPA Practice Advisor (2017), and a Young Professional of the year by the IMA (2016).

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Cybersecurity and Promoting Risk Awareness" with Tim O'Hara of PRICCHAA INC (Chicago, USA). GBD19 Sep 26, 2018

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"Security is a table stakes business-survival matter"

This October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the USA and CyberSecMonth across the EU. On the eve of this month-long focus on the safety and resilience of the internet, we talk to an expert who reveals why it's something that every business should prioritise EVERY day of the year. Kyle Hannan (AICPA & CIMA, London) talks to Tim O'Hara, a Chicago-based IT Solutions Adviser and cybersecurity consultant.

OUR GUEST:

Tim's clients include C-Level Executives in Finance, Operations, and IT cycles of Fortune 500 and mid-sized named accounts covering financial services, manufacturing, retail, business services, non-profits and consumer goods, telecommunications, media, and government. Founded on his CPA, CGMA and Internal Control Certifications, Tim mastered transaction processing, financial reporting, business information exchanges (B2B, B2C, B2G, G2G) and fraud. He is also a technical reviewer of the AICPA's COSO Enterprise Risk-Management Certificate Programme. Find out more about Timothy O'Hara on LinkedIn

WE DISCUSS:

how to understand the risks posed by cyber attacks
how to build resilience, defences and awareness in response.
effective, practical and achievable steps which any company can take

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

AICPA COSO Enterprise Risk-Management Certificate Programme
CyberSecurity Europe (2 Day Event in London)

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Business Partnering & Putting the Cool into Number-Crunching" with Andi Lonnen of Finance Training Academy (Leeds, UK). GBD18 Sep 19, 2018

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"What's ordinary to accountants is extraordinary to everyone else...and that's your unique skill-set".

In addition to her work with AICPA & CIMA's CPD Academy programmes, Andi Lonnen is a qualified ACCA, a financial trainer, a speaker, and an author. She makes a difference to her clients by making finance fun for business professionals!

Research carried out for CIMA's report Ready for business: bridging the employability gap (February 2014) identified that today's finance professionals need more than just the technical skills required to produce accounting and financial information but also the ability to lead and influence people within the organisation.

That's why our guest's insights are so timely. Andi tells episode-host Peter Biggenden (AICPA & CIMA, London) about bridging the "knowing-doing" gap, the power of online media, webinars and podcasts as professional development tools, and the transformation offered by moving from service-provision to business partnering.

WE DISCUSS:

sharing best practices for webinars gained from working with the CPD Academy programme
delivering effective online learning without worrying about the tech
appreciating the unique abilities and skills of those in the accounting profession
finance for non-finance professionals
being what accountants are born to be, and doing what they're born to do: add value

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Find out more about Andi Lonnen
Read the AICPA & CIMA/KPMG joint report on Mastering Finance Business Partnering

== MORE ABOUT OUR PODCAST ==

It's recorded by a growing team of AICPA & CIMA staff from offices across the world.

TAKE IT FURTHER. Find related CPD/CPE resources at https://www.aicpastore.com/GoBeyondDisruption and https://www.cgmastore.com/GoBeyonddisruption.

STAY CONNECTED. Follow #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews and @CIMA_News on social."

"Agreement versus expectation" with Clare Haynes of Wildfire (Warwickshire, UK) GBD17 Sep 12, 2018

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"We're not robots, we're people. And it's PEOPLE that get things done, together".

Samantha Watson (AICPA & CIMA, London) talks to specialist people-developer, speaker, and trainer Clare Haynes of Wildfire. They discuss the differences between Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Quotient, the ways that they contribute to a better-functioning workplace environment, and how it can help when having difficult conversations.

OUR GUEST:

Clare Haynes has a psychology background and a career which has spanned communications, sport, sales and fundraising in media, charity and public sectors. Based in Warwickshire, UK, she is a professional speaker for membership organisations and companies.

WE DISCUSS: