How do you currently help your team gain knowledge? Are your accountants left on their own to find courses to help them get their required CPE hours? Or, is it a collaborative practice that includes shadowing and 1:1 time with subject matter experts besides in-person and online courses?

How agile is your accounting team? Do your rock stars have the opportunity to work on value-add activities that will help the business make better decisions and establish them as experts? Or, are they stuck in a continuous month-end cycle?

How are you leveraging technology in your reconciliation process?

Using technology properly consists of knowing what functionality exists and then understanding how it can be leveraged based on your accounting environment, policies and goals.

Are your audits painful?

Do you and your team dread any time an auditor makes a request? Are you concerned you won’t be able to support a number on your balance sheet, find a reconciliation or help the auditor understand why that amount is correct?

Should we be focused on a “shorter” close cycle or a "smarter" one? Have you been tasked with creating a shorter close cycle? Have you stopped to think about what this really means to you and your team?

Should we be focused on a “shorter” close cycle or a "smarter" one? Have you been tasked with creating a shorter close cycle? Have you stopped to think about what this really means to you and your team?