Understanding Financial Decision Making
Tools for the Business Professional
December 4, 2009
Course Description
Participants will gain an understanding of financial decision making tools, including basic accounting principles and and financial statement analysis. Financial terms and inter-relationships will be covered. Participants will gain hands-on skills in financial statement analysis. Class will be divided into customized profit and not-for-profit break-out sessions. Participants are asked to bring a calculator.
Who Should Attend
Professionals in marketing, sales, engineering, product development, operations management and administration. This seminar is beneficial for companies of all sizes, both profit and not-for-profit.
Date and Schedule
Friday, December 4, 2009 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., with a continental breakfast served at 7:30 a.m.
Price
$295.00 Individual
$245.00 University of Rochester alumni
Group pricing is available. Please contact the Executive Programs office at (585) 275-3439 or execed@simon.rochester.edu.
Location and Parking
Schlegel Hall, University of Rochester River Campus
Directions: http://www.rochester.edu/maps/directions.html
Parking pass and parking lot information are forthcoming.
Map: http://www.rochester.edu/parking/assets/pdf/ParkingMap2010r.pdf
Instructors
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Heidi TribunellaClinical Associate Professor of Accounting |
BiographyProfessor Tribunella has served as an auditor for two national firms, Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. At those firms, she served clients in the health care industry as well as midsized firms. Tribunella, also a New York State Certified Public Accountant, spent over five years in industry as a manager of financial reporting for two different health care companies. Prior to joining the Simon School faculty, she taught a variety of business and accounting courses at various colleges, most recently at Keuka College.
Tribunella has an interest in accounting and auditing research and has published articles with other professors in the Journal of Business and Economics Research, the Journal of College Teaching and Learning, The Review of Business Information Systems, The CPA Journal, and the Accounting Information Systems Educator Journal.
Tribunella has received the Oneida County Comptroller’s Office Accounting Award for academic achievement in the M.S. accountancy program at the SUNY Institute of Technology. She is listed in the 2002 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and received a Best Paper Award at the International Business and Economics Research Conference and the Accounting Information Systems Educators’ Conference. B.S., Accounting, John Wiley Jones School of Business, State University of New York at Geneseo M.S., Accountancy, State University of New York Institute of Technology
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Thomas TribunellaLecturer in Accounting |
BiographyProfessor Tribunella‘s teaching and research interests are in the fields of Accounting and Information Systems. He has published papers related to markup languages such as XML and XBRL, open source accounting systems, and technology’s effect on productivity. He has also won four best paper awards at academic conferences. Examples of his publications appear in the following outlets among others: Journal of Information Systems, The CPA Journal, The Review of Business Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Business and Economics Research. Tribunella worked in industry as an auditor and accountant before beginning a career in academia. He has been on the faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, and SUNY Geneseo. He is currently teaching Accounting Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Auditing and Information Systems, and Cost Accounting. Ph.D., Information Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany M.B.A., Accounting, Rochester Institute of Technology B.B.A., Accounting, Niagara UniversityCertified Public Accountant, New York State license
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