Key takeaways
Host: Beth Kaplan, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Companies are increasingly being asked to lower their operating costs or find new efficient ways to deliver controllership services. How can organizations manage new risks that may be introduced when changing the way they deliver controllership? We’ll discuss:
- How to prepare for and develop a plan to manage risk through the operating model and other strategic changes
- How to maintain controls that may affect systems, policies, processes, and the talent model
- How to design a sustainable process and environment that enables the intended benefits of new operating models
Meet the speaker

Beth F. Kaplan
Beth is the managing director for the Center for ControllershipTM. A Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory managing director at Deloitte & Touche LLP, she has more than 35 years of experience both as an auditor, CFO/Controller, and as a financial operations consultant. Beth specializes in helping the Controllership function improve overall finance processes, reduce cost of delivery and/or reduce risk. She has served some of the largest global and national organizations as they transform their controllership function due to mergers, accounting changes and/or system transformation. Beth has published several times in the areas of improvement of the financial close and reporting process, role of controllership and designing an effective control design for Sarbanes-Oxley.
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