Disaster Recovery Planning ON DEMAND
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6.0 Credits
Member Price $87.00
Non-Member Price $100.00
Overview
Even a well-run company can be brought down by disaster, such as a fire or flood. In this course, we describe how to identify risk areas and create and test a plan for how to deal with them. This course will cover risk analysis, developing a recovery strategy, crisis management, disaster recovery priorities, and dozens of best practices for mitigating all kinds of disasters. This is the go-to guide for setting up a disaster recovery plan.
Highlights
Project planning considerations. The disaster recovery planning process. Project termination. When to develop a plan. Business impact analysis. The risk analysis. Risk layers. Recovery strategy formulation, and more.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, CFPs, COOs, and other accounting professionals.
Objectives
Identify the triggering events for disaster recovery planning. Specify the roles of the parties identified in a disaster recovery plan. Identify how the scope should be set for a disaster recovery plan. Specify the nature of the recovery time objective and recovery point objective. Identify the different tranches of risk types. Recall the risk evaluation information that can be obtained from federal agencies. Specify the purpose of a recovery strategy. Specify which assets should be included on an asset identification list, and more.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Bragg, Western CPE
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.
Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).
Non-Member Price $100.00
Member Price $87.00