Accenture Finance Academy

Accenture Finance Academy delivers engaging, online learning experiences that help organizations to advance the skills, capabilities and productivity of their finance workforce and drive improved performance across the business.

Accenture research has found that executives view the finance organization as critical to success—but that the performance of the finance workforce is often not perceived as world-class. Enterprises are challenged to build a consistent foundation of differentiated, market-leading skills across globally dispersed finance teams—providing them with the technical, business and experiential training that will enable them to advance in their careers and add increasing value to their organization.

Accenture Finance Academy delivers rich and relevant content designed to improve the essential skills of the finance workforce. The Academy is available through an innovative, flexible and scalable delivery platform. Courses target specific job roles and competencies so content is always tailored to real performance needs, helping organizations to build a consistent foundation of skills across a global workforce.

Content is continuously updated based on knowledge and leading practices from finance specialists around the globe. Organizations can leverage our core, industrialized Finance Academy, or Accenture can also customize a curriculum to specific needs, goals and environments.

Accenture is an acknowledged innovator in enterprise learning and has business, industry, training and technology skills unmatched in the marketplace.

Accenture is an industry leader in delivering advanced learning solutions that are scalable and flexible, harnessing innovative technologies and learning designs in a way that is also standardized and cost-effective. Accenture Finance Academy provides an interactive, highly engaging and blended learning environment, including online self-study courses, live webinars, case-based learning, simulations and extensive online resources.

Accenture Finance Academy draws on the deep consulting, technology and outsourcing experience Accenture has developed from working with clients around the globe. Our Finance & Performance Management consulting practice is recognized by industry analysts as a leader in finance management, performance management and risk management services. Our finance and accounting outsourcing practice helps clients optimize and manage their finance function to drive new efficiencies and improve profitability.

Here’s what makes Accenture Finance Academy distinctive in the marketplace:

• Competency-based learning. Accenture Finance Academy leverages a competency-based approach that identifies skills gaps and ensures learning is tailored to real and relevant performance needs.

• Outcome driven. Accenture Finance Academy is designed to help our clients achieve measurable business outcomes, and our learning professionals help our clients keep course content aligned with changing strategies and business goals.

• Informed by specialists. The engaging and highly relevant curriculum is created and continuously refreshed using new content from leading academics and other specialists in the finance and accounting field across the globe.

• Anytime access to learning. Accenture Finance Academy’s extensive online learning curriculum is available on demand, 24/7—offering flexible access to learning for our clients around the globe.

• Customized, industrialized, scalable, flexible. By combining our industrialized delivery platform with customizable learning approaches, our clients can take advantage of learning solutions that are both more efficient and more effective. The flexible architecture enables our clients to adapt the platform to their specific needs.

Accenture Finance Academy offers an extensive and engaging curriculum across a full range of finance processes, designed to help our clients deliver a consistent foundation of market-leading finance skills and improve the performance of the finance workforce with more rigor and certainty. In addition to courses focused on foundational concepts and on leadership development, the curriculum covers:

• Finance and accounting operations—including general accounting and reporting; fixed-asset accounting; purchase-to-pay; order-to-cash; product costing and inventory accounting; and travel and expense reimbursement.

• Enterprise performance management—including strategic planning/shareholder value targeting; target setting; performance reporting and analytics; and planning, resource allocation and forecasting.

• Corporate finance—including internal controls; investor relations; treasury and cash management; and corporate tax.

• Enterprise risk management—including credit and market risk management; operational risk management; and risk and finance integration.

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