Focus Webinar Speaking Opportunities

ABACC will host a series of webinars over the coming months, sponsored and presented by our Corporate Partners.

ABACC handles all marketing, registration, web hosting, and CPE credit processing. The sponsor creates and presents the workshop. The sponsor and ABACC will work together to select content and themes of interest to the ABACC membership.

We are looking for content like:

  • New accounting standards
  • What does a president need to know about institutional financial health to convey confidence to potential donors
  • Regulatory and compliance issues
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Interpersonal communication/relational leadership
  • Developing knowledge basic or specialized accounting skills
  • Enterprise risk management
  • Trends, advancements in technology
  • Team development
  • Endowment management, endowment accounting
  • Implementation of plans and projects, project management
  • Legal issues
  • Developing and using KPIs
  • Preparing and delivering compelling presentations
  • Dealing with difficult financial situations, methods for addressing budget reductions
  • Cyber security
  • Debt issuance and management
  • Financial literacy skills
  • Personal development/growth
  • Trends in Human Resources
  • Data analytics
  • Forecasting (cash flow, budget, enrollment, etc.)
  • Budgeting best practices
  • Coordinating institutional priorities with the budget
  • Academic and athletic program prioritization
  • Strategic Plan project management
  • Delegating well
  • Risk management
  • HEERF fund reporting
  • Succession planning, developing the next generation of leaders

We are also interested in workshops or workshop series to accomplish the following:

  • Develop up-and-coming business officers
  • Financial literacy
  • Accounting in higher education
  • Interviewing your boss (making sure an employer/job is right for you)
  • Recognizing the high calling of the business officer function
  • Instilling pride in our jobs
  • Work/life balance
  • Leading up
  • Financial literacy for presidents and board members
  • Understanding financial statements, 990s
  • Understanding, improving Department of Education and accreditation ratios
  • Benchmarking against potential donor competition
  • Hiring, leveraging a sophisticated CFO
  • Fostering a sophisticated budget process for purpose of interested constituents (board, department heads, donors, etc.)
  • Tying the budget to the strategic plan
  • Hands-on training
  • Team training
  • Learning and leveraging personality types
  • Activity-based learning opportunities
  • Collaboration between officers and board
  • CFO and Enrollment
  • CFO and Academics
  • CFO and Board Finance/Audit/Investment Committee
  • CFO and President
  • CFO and Board

We also intend to provide content for department heads typically reporting to the CFO including:

  • Human Resources
  • Physical Plant
  • Information Technologies
  • Auxiliary Services
  • Risk Management, Safety/Security
SPONSOR & PRESENT A WEBINAR