2025 WRLA Showcase PD Session – Finance Learning Lab Presented by Carolyn Scissons

January 21, 2025

9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Month-End Mastery: A One-Day workshop focused on practical tips and hands on learning uniquely applied to finance and accounting professionals in building supply industry | Moderated by Carolyn Scissons

January 21 – 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. MST

Meeting Room @ Edmonton Expo Centre
Member price: $149.99

Join us for an action packed one-day workshop designed exclusively for finance and accounting professionals in the building supply industry. "Month-End Mastery" offers practical tips and hands-on learning experiences that will transform your month-end processes. This workshop is hosted by the Western Retail Lumber Association and is an opportunity to engage with accounting peers in your industry and bring your real world finance challenges to the table. 

We will cover over a dozen bite sized tips to streamline your streamline your workflow and engage in insightful case studies and breakout sessions that allow you to apply newly acquired concepts directly to your professional practice. Additionally, explore how manufacturing and lean concepts can be effectively integrated into accounting, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in your financial operations.

Join us to elevate your month-end procedures and embrace the future of finance and accounting in the building supply industry.

Lunch will be provided for all PD sessions, and all attendees will receive a certificate of completion at the end of this session.

About Carolyn Scissons:

Carolyn Scissons is a Fractional CFO and founder of the Finance Learning Lab. She is passionate about helping accountants grow in their career and brining about process improvements that make month end processes – and lives – work better. She also teaches management accounting and financial reporting at the University of Calgary and SAIT. Her education includes a CPA, CMA, MBA, PMP and CIA designation. Carolyn’s teaching style is engaging and hands-on so you can expect that we will dive deeply into the unique challenges you are facing and engage in activities to build a practical toolbox that you can apply in your day-to-day work. Outside of work, she loves to travel and recently took a business trip to Hong Kong where she "unintentionally" ate pigeon thinking it was chicken. Safe to say she’s better at navigating financial statements then navigating menus overseas!

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