Mastering Variance Analysis for Financial Statements
June 27,2025
December 31,2025
All Days
100 Minutes
Recorded Webinar
Banking, Insurance & Finance
Discover how to extract meaningful insights from financial statements through the power of variance analysis. Join Shana Cooper, CPA, and founder of The AccountAbility Team, LLC, as she shares over 30 years of accounting expertise to help you move beyond surface-level reporting. In this comprehensive webinar, you will learn how to uncover the real story behind your balance sheets and income statements, empowering you to drive better business decisions and strengthen financial controls.
This practical course equips accounting professionals at all levels with tools and techniques that work across any technology platform. Key topics include core variance analysis concepts, methods for investigating and explaining deviations, distinguishing between temporary fluctuations and meaningful trends, and strategies for connecting variance results to business drivers. Through detailed case studies and guided exercises, you’ll learn to build a robust financial analysis program, present findings effectively to stakeholders, and make variance analysis a strategic tool for organizational excellence. Whether you are reviewing internal financial statements or supporting multiple clients, this webinar offers actionable insights to elevate your financial review process.
Learning Objectives:-
- Understand the importance and essential elements of quality financial analysis
- Learn systematic approaches to identifying and investigating relevant deviations
- Explore strategies successful accounting teams use to translate variance data into actionable business recommendations
Why Should You Attend?
- Increased accuracy in financial interpretation
- More efficient financial review processes
- Better audit preparedness
- Reduced risk of overlooking significant financial issues
- Enhanced team capability, cross-training, and confidence
- Improved decision-making through reliable financial insights
Attending this webinar will sharpen your financial analysis skills, improve your ability to spot critical issues early, and strengthen your role as a strategic partner in business decision-making.
Who Should Attend?
- Accountants
- Financial Analysts
- Controllers
- CFOs
- Bookkeepers
- Internal Auditors
- Finance Managers
- Business Consultants
- Accounting Managers
- Budget Analysts
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Shana is a proven accounting visionary and strategist, focused on leading accounting teams to confidence by protecting their reputation and being ready for anything. She has always been a champion of close optimization, especially through account reconciliations. Couple this with her passion for excellence and you get her signature Reconciliation Strong programs. This program is a culmination of her 30+ years of experience with account reconciliations and is key to Shana’s mission of helping every accountant learn how to do reconciliations the right way.
Shana spent the first 18 years of her accounting career in various audit and controllership roles across multiple industries. Her passion for accounting process improvement and automation led her to BlackLine where, over her 10-year tenure, she created, developed, and led five different teams, including Customer Success and Customer Experience. She was fortunate enough to be part of BlackLine’s successful rise from less than 100 customers to over 2000, and from a private to a public company. Shana went on to help build RSM’s BlackLine practice with an emphasis on account reconciliation optimization.
Shana has had the unique opportunity to influence thousands of accountants and impact the reconciliation of hundreds of thousands of accounts over her career. She has prepared, approved, and audited reconciliations, trained accountants, and optimized reconciliation processes. This expertise, along with her focus on customer experience, makes her ideal to champion reconciliation excellence across accounting teams. Shana believes strong reconciliations lead to overall accounting excellence which lends itself to her newest program, CloseStrong.
Shana lives in East Tennessee with her husband and kids. When Shana isn’t dreaming about the perfect reconciliation, she enjoys reading, taking walks, finding quality vintage and watching baseball.
