Speaker kit

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Session abstracts, learning objectives, bios, formats, and audience fit. Copy anything here directly into your program materials.

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Sessions

01

The Cost of Control Debt

AbstractWhy finance automation fails when evidence, ownership, and review are treated as afterthoughts.

Learning objectives

  • Recognize control debt before it becomes transformation drag
  • Separate repeatable work from accountable judgment
  • Design automation that leaves a usable evidence path

02

ASC 606 Beyond Compliance

AbstractHow revenue recognition becomes an operating model across contracts, data, systems, controls, and teams.

Learning objectives

  • See where technical conclusions break down in operations
  • Connect policy to process, ownership, and system behavior
  • Create support that follows the decision from source to report

03

From Spreadsheet Heroics to a Finance Operating System

AbstractA practical path from invisible workarounds to a finance model that can scale without losing accountability.

Learning objectives

  • Map the real work before choosing the tool
  • Design clear decision rights and handoffs
  • Sequence modernization around business risk and adoption

Bios

Short bio

Alicia Dahling is an accountant and the founder of Dahling Consulting, advising finance leaders on revenue recognition and finance transformation. She brings more than two decades of corporate finance leadership across HP, HPE, DXC Technology, and Perspecta.

Long bio

Alicia Dahling brings more than two decades of corporate finance leadership across HP, HPE, DXC Technology, and Perspecta, spanning commercial clients and U.S. federal programs across defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, in some of the most demanding audit environments there are. Her work connects technical accounting, finance operations, controls, systems, and execution so transformation remains practical after the project team leaves. She speaks on ASC 606, control debt, and automation that keeps accountability intact.

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Formats and audiences

Formats

KeynoteExecutive briefingWorking sessionWorkshopPanel

Designed for

  • CFOs and chief accounting officers
  • Controllers and revenue leaders
  • Finance transformation teams
  • Executive and portfolio leadership groups

CPE credit

Sessions can be built to your accrediting body's field of study, learning objectives, and documentation requirements. Note the requirement in your request and Alicia will confirm what the program needs before contracting.

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