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Assessing the Ethical Dimensions of Strategy and Execution

Date: Friday, June 2, 2006Location: Illinois CPA Society Education Center

550 W. Jackson, Suite 900, Chicago, IllinoisCPE Credits: 4 hours (also qualifies for 4 hours of Ethics CPE)Time: 8:00 AM Registration; 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM ProgramCourse Code: C35698

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featuring:Mark L. Frigo, PhD, CPA, CMADirector, The Center for Strategy, Execution,and Valuation, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University

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Assessing the Ethical Dimensions of Strategy and Execution

Ethically maximizing owner/shareholder wealth is the overriding objective of any business. But getting there is another thing. How canexecutives develop, execute and communicatestrategic initiatives that will drive maximum value without compromising their high standard of ethics?

Using diagnostic tools and case studies, you willlearn how to evaluate the ethical issues that cansurface in a broad range of areas facing everybusiness, from financial reporting and supplychain management to employee engagementand strategic communications. You will walkaway with the ability to identify the questionsevery business should ask regarding ethical issuesin business strategy and execution.

Who Should Attend:

CFOs, Controllers, Finance Directors, VPs of Finance or other finance professionals with theresponsibility of designing, implementing orevaluating business strategies.

Discuss how your company assesses the ethical dimensions of its business strategy and its execution including performance measures

Understand the areas of business activities in which your companyshould look closely at ethical considerations

Learn why the consideration of ethical business activities must be at the forefront of strategy and execution, rather than an after thought.

Understand the challenge of identifying unethical activities and how it can come up anywhere in your business strategy and its execution

Learn to identify when management is “pushing the envelope” on ethics

Review the financial case for business ethics

Understand why the financial impact of ethics issues surmounts any other type of analysis management can do.

Review best practices from the Return Driven Strategy Initiativerelating to the superior financial performance and business ethics of some of the best companies in the world

Some of the hundreds of companies that have attendeda CCFL Executive Education program:

Blue Cross & Blue ShieldCarhartt, Inc.CinergyClifton Gunderson LLPConseco Services, LLCCrowe Chizek & Co. LLPDiscover Financial ServicesDowners Grove National BankErnst & Young LLPFederal Home Loan BankFollett Corporation

Great Lakes Chemical Corp. Harris BankJohn Deere & CompanyMcDonalds Corp.Midland Manufacturing Corp.Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.Usher Oil CompanyWabash National Corp.WeyerhaeuserWhirlpool CorporationWorld’s Finest Chocolate

Mark L. Frigo, Ph.D., CPA, CMA

Mark L. Frigo, Ph.D., CPA, CMA is the Director of TheCenter for Strategy, Execution and Valuation in theKellstadt Graduate School of Business and EichenbaumFoundation Distinguished Professor of Strategy andLeadership in the School of Accountancy at DePaulUniversity. Dr. Frigo has extensive experience as a

management consultant with KPMG and in the corporate sector wherehe was responsible for strategic planning. He has helped manyorganizations to design and execute strategy for maximum valuecreation. Dr. Frigo is a leading expert in strategy design and execution,including Balanced Scorecard initiatives and has helped participantsfrom CCFL seminars to lead successful strategic planning and BalancedScorecard initiatives. A dynamic speaker, Dr. Frigo was presented theEconomos Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Kellstadt GraduateSchool of Business at DePaul and was the recipient of the 2002 IllinoisCPA Society Outstanding Educator Award. The author of five books andover 60 articles, his work is published in leading business journalsincluding Harvard Business Review. He is a consultant to executive teamsand boards of directors. Dr. Frigo is co-creator of the Return DrivenStrategy framework with Joel Litman.

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