Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting
Getting monthly reporting right is essential for any business. This course helps you create timely, relevant, and reliable reports that meet user needs and significantly increase the chances of business success.
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Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting
£150 +VAT
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Fast and Effective Monthly Reporting
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This course will enable you to
- Ensure your monthly reporting process is fast and effective
- Understand the key principles and core requirements in monthly reporting.
- Choose the right data systems to support your process
- Review existing reports to ensure they’re relevant and fit for purpose
- Tailor your reports to meet the needs of their users
About the course
The monthly reporting process is crucial for providing quality information to aid organisational decision-making. If taken for granted there is a real risk of missing opportunities, and key warning signs.
Practical issues like IT systems, resource constraints, and organisational culture are key, but you also need to focus on good practice and continual improvement. Integrating financial and non-financial information is increasingly necessary, as is, with so much data available, striking a balance to avoid information overload.
Discover how to create monthly reports that are timely, relevant, reliable, and easy to understand, so you can meet user needs and drive business success.
Contents
Key principles
Why is monthly reporting important?
Organisational culture
Factors that influence the monthly report
Presentation, timing and relevance
Accuracy versus timeliness
Reliability
The importance of data
Choosing the right information system
IT systems
Maximising the benefits
The importance of reconciliations
Reconciliations
The Chart of Accounts
Managing the process
The importance of process
The overall approach
Communication and data exchange
Exception reporting and suspense accounts
What can make a monthly report late?
Timing of activities
Capacity building
The contents
What should be included?
The content of monthly financial reports
Integrated reporting
Variance analysis
Meeting user needs
User needs
Final advice
Author
Wayne Bartlett
Wayne is an internationally acclaimed speaker and trainer on all aspects of public and private sector accounting and auditing standards. He has been instrumental in helping to develop the profession internationally and has taken lead roles in the development of new professional bodies and the accounting profession in Mozambique and Rwanda, and been extensively involved in developing financial reporting in many countries across the globe.
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Linnette Daniels –
Good overview of month end reporting process in Finance
Gillian Sayer –
I really enjoyed this. Was appropriate for all levels of organisation. (Quite often courses offered by bodies are aimed at plc or practice level and forget all the small businesses that still need to account) Content allowed you to apply to your own requirements
Susan Chisnall –
It covers a range of topics impacting monthly reporting and provides practical insights.
Stewart Douglas –
Useful tips to assist with reporting.
Eleciah Boone –
Because of the material provided
Andrew Judge –
some common sense points, but it shines light on fact that often monthly reports can be unchanged for possibly years- and that its something that can be changed i a number of ways. course was too short though, only took 2 hours to complete
Song Zejun Young –
It’s very informative and useful.
Philip Austin –
easy to understand, well structured, good videos
Tresha Arjoon-Wallace –
An excellent course, very good refresher as well as new areas I was not familiar with. I highly recommend.
Kimala Swanston –
Very useful information.
Diana Wheatley –
I enjoyed the course. It covered the various aspects of monthly reporting in great detail. There was some duplicate material but overall was worth it.
Joanne Clough –
This course largely confirmed I’m on the right track, but there are areas that could be improved on. From the course perspective, I would love to hear some comments from exectives about monthly financial reporting.
Nishank Dhirajlal –
Excellent course
Raymond Marcel Kemp –
Good reminder of principles related to monthly reporting
Zurina Aziz –
Give us good knowledge and most useful
Muhammad Ali –
good detail information
Emma Caines –
very comprehensive, and a good refresher or best practice
David Mahe –
very good
Irene Awala –
Really helpful.
Sheikh Ahmed –
Grear
A Karim –
Very good info how to prepare effective monthly reports.
Delilah Thobias –
Very well presented
Tufel Ahmed Miah –
This course was exceptionally well-structured, comprehensive, and highly informative. The topics were explained clearly, with practical examples that were easy to apply to real-world scenarios. I particularly appreciated the focus on integrated reporting, variance analysis, and user-centred reporting improvements. The interactive elements and case studies made learning engaging and impactful. Excellent job!
Helen Sterry –
useful
Subhash Ramoutar –
very good content
Tina Vincent –
Good but a bit repetitive
Hisako McRobbie –
I really enjoyed this course. It was structured nicely and easy to understand.
James Monahan –
It covered the main points of monthly reporting
Ria Narinesingh –
It was informative
Mark Austin –
Good basic coverage of monthly financial reports. I would recommend this for more junior members of my team
David Budge –
The course gave a very good overview of the key issues and components of the monthly report. From a personal perspective, it was reassuring that there was very little that was being overlooked and that our overall direction was sound. The course also provided a great opportunity to reflect on how we approached our monthly reports.
Zhuo Li Li –
very good
David Sagna –
Course provided detailed information regarding the subject
Ompontshitse Galetshajwe –
It is relevant for those who are preparing management accounts and those who capture transactions into the system
Brent Murgatroyd –
Good course but i my case the basics are already well understood.
Gill Holden –
Gave pause for thought/refreshed my viewpoint
Stuart Ward –
Content was generic and seldom rose above common sense ideas.
Miss Natalie Woolley –
Producing monthly reports is a huge of my time so this was a valuable and current module which made a lot of sense and provided some great advice
Hannah Gordon –
very useful modules on Management Accounting. good to see what others are thinking
Martin French –
Pretty much what I expected.
Malgorzata Kostecka –
good content
Lydia Hakeney –
This is an excellent course for junior accountants. The analysis part of the accountant’s job is very important, especially as AI begins to do more of the information processing work.
Abd Razak Minhat –
The module structure very interesting and help me a lot
James Brammeld –
Bunmi Adegbie –
It was quite informative .
Allan Young –
Useful reminders regarding the differences between monthly and annual reports.
Bhanumathy Srinivasaraghavan –
excellent coverage of relevant information
Georginia Nwaigwe –
Course content is relevant to my current professional and occupational needs.
Simon Jordan –
Covers all the bases
Athanasios Athanasopoulos –
Very useful and sevral ideas and siggestions will be applied in my monthly reporting routines
Rebecca Mgadla –
The key areas like integrated reporting and case studies were spot on.
Mary Therese Mannion –
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Sanya Khan –
great
Keith Flanagan –
Happy with the course and gave some good insight into an area in which I have a keen interest.
Marian Hamer –
Very easy to understand. Provokes thought for reviewing our monthly reports.
Damien Pluck –
Good insight into monthly reporting.
Kenneth E J Chedzey –
A useful course since I am currently looking at ways to improve aspects of or monthly reporting processes and will use the content to drive this forward.