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Peter Simons

Technical Specialist

CIMA

Peter Simons works with CIMA's Education team. He worked with Bank of Ireland where his CIMA qualification enabled him to achieve career progression through roles in strategy, corporate lending, credit management and marketing to become a member of the bank's senior management team in London. Peter also had four years' experience as MD of a small, 50 employee business before joining CIMA as a technical specialist in 2006. His main areas of interest are performance management and the future of the role of the management accountant.

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13 September 2006
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The Evolving Finance Function
Finance was perceived as keeper of accounting information, but that view evolved and saw the function treated as the analytical engine room of the business, driving strategy. Recently there has been focus on regulatory compliance, and so begs the question: Is the role of the finance function clear? What are the trends that will affect the future of finance?
Damian Wild(Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Ian McMillan - Financial Management Consulting Leader, IBM
Peter Moller - Partner, Deloitte
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
Nick Jarman - Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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18 April 2007
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Partners not policemen: how finance departments can build bridges and drive growth
In driving business growth, finance departments need to partner more, and analyse and predict, not simply record and report. But do finance teams have the right strategic skills to do so? And do they have the operational culture to ensure a successful transition? In this session our experts outline the new skills that are needed and offer advice on how to acquire them.
Damian Wild(Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
John Hayes - Partner, Financial Management Consulting, IBM
Nick Eaves - Executive Director, Badenoch & Clark
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
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07 November 2007
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Improving Decision Making
Finance has a central role to play in ensuring corporate decisions are based on well-founded business cases. But in too many situations decision-making is flawed and inconsistent. What role can finance directors and senior members of their teams play in improving decision-making and ensuring that decisions taken result in performance improvement? How can they strike the right balance bet... [read more]
Andrew Sawers(Host) - Editor, Financial Director
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
Philip Smith - Chairman and FD, H Young Transport
John Wilkes - Head of Performance Management, Capgemini Consulting UK
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20 February 2008
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How to Achieve Finance Transformation
Multinationals are changing with the most successful becoming global integrated enterprises. For these companies, national borders are increasingly irrelevant and define less and less the boundaries of corporate thinking and practice. How does finance fit into this new agenda? And how should finance departments transform themselves to deliver within these new structures? In this session we a... [read more]
Damian Wild(Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
Andy Kitcher - Partner, Alsbridge plc
Mark Roberts - MBPS Business Development Lead, IBM UK
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30 April 2008
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Maximising Customer Profitability
As tough trading conditions force businesses to focus more and more on margins, the need to understand customer profitability is paramount. But too many companies do not know which channels and customers are their most profitable - either through a lack of information or by failing to use the information available to them properly. In this session our experts look at how businesses can improve mar... [read more]
Damian Wild(Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Richard Barrett - Director Product Marketing Financial Performance Management, Business Objects
Mark Hixon - Managing Director, Consulting Associates Worldwide
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
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08 October 2008
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Mid-market outsourcing
Outsourcing isn't all about transformational projects for multinationals. For the majority of companies, it's about moving routine, back office operations out of the business and into the hands of a specialist. But it's seldom so simple. In this session, we ask: What functions should a mid-market company look to outsource? How can the retained organisation ensure that it's well served by its new... [read more]
Damian Wild - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
Mark Holland - Partner Baker Tilly and of ICAEW IT Faculty,
Keith Wilson - Chartered Management Accountant, BaxterStorey
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18 March 2009
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‘Cash is King’ – how do you model, forecast and optimise your cash flow?
The ability to manage cash flow and liquidity in times of economic turmoil can make or break a business. But forecasting your cash flow based on historical trends is only part of the story. Increasingly companies and their FDs realise that modelling your greatest areas of risk by expanding your forecasting analysis to include robust ‘What if..’ scenarios will optimise your working capital and ... [read more]
Damian Wild(Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Eric Anstee - Senior Adviser, Alvarez & Marsal
Neil Morling - Group Finance Director, EC Harris LLP
Alison Morgans - Master Principal Solution Consultant, Oracle
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
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25 November 2009
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The end of spreadsheet jockeys? How knowledge sharing is key to unlocking the secrets of an integrated, sophisticated finance team
How many spreadsheet jockeys does your business employ? Finance departments continue to devote almost 60% of their time to gathering data as opposed to analysing it, according to a recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. But why are organisations continuing to waste specialist finance resources and skills, what are the business drivers to knowledge sharing, the key objections and should busines... [read more]
Rachel Fielding(Host) - Digital programmes editor, Accountancy Age
Glen Westlake - CEO, IT Performs
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
Nick Jarman - Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Dr Devendra Kodwani - Lecturer in Finance, The Open University Business School
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