February Dinner Meeting - Technical Sessions (CPE)

When:  Feb 19, 2019 from 05:30 PM to 08:15 PM (ET)
Associated with  Akron Chapter
Hilton Garden Inn
Tuesday, February 19, 2018
Students’ Night

 

Agenda:
Please note, this meeting is on a Tuesday.
Registration opens at 5:15pm
Buffett Dinner at 5:45pm
Pre-Tech Session begins at 6:10pm
Technical Session begins at 7:10pm



Pre-Tech Session - "How to Use Hedging to Minimize FX Volatility "

Sam Farkas, MBA, CPA

Lead Financial Analyst, International Treasury, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company


 

Mr. Farkas has been responsible for managing foreign exchange (FX) risk at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. since February 2016. His experience extends to monitoring, analyzing, and hedging cash flow & balance sheet exposures of the company. He provides support for hedge/no-hedge decisions, for other special transactions and assists in evaluating new strategies to minimize P&L volatility due to FX movements.

Prior to Treasury, he has held various roles in Internal Controls, Procurement Finance and Internal Audit Departments of Goodyear. He holds an MBA and an MA degree in Econometrics from Ohio University, Athens, OH.

 

 

Technical Session - "My Story: The Journey from CPA to Serial Entrepreneur to Author"

Denise M. Lee, CPA, MBA

Serial Entrepreneur, Faculty, Kent State University

 

Denise is an entrepreneur who has co-founded five start-up companies whose outcomes have included the outright sale of a company to a large corporation, the sale of her interest in a company to a private buyer, business shuttering after success in order to pursue a different opportunity, and business shuttering after failure to get a product to market. Two of the businesses were in the medical industry, two were in the construction industry, and one was in the education industry. Denise is also a CPA with 6 years of public accounting experience.

 

Denise is currently a faculty member at Kent State University in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship where she is involved in teaching and coaching entrepreneurship students. In 2011, Denise received the Kent State University College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. In 2014 she was nominated for the same award. In 2015, she received a Faculty Recognition Award from the Kent State University Teaching Council.

 

Denise has developed and taught a variety of traditional and online entrepreneurship courses at Kent State University, including Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Experience I & II, Entrepreneurial Tools, Entrepreneurial Marketing, New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Finance. She is also Coordinator for Kent State University's Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Curriculum.

 

Specialties: As an entrepreneur, Denise has specialized in overall business strategy, business planning, process and procedure development, and overall company management. Denise has extensive experience in all phases of the administrative development and proper exit of new business ventures. As a CPA, Denise specialized in audit, business valuation and corporate taxation.

 

Denise is currently working with Chicago Business Press to publish a textbook about entrepreneurial finance. The expected publication date of the textbook is 2019.

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Location

Hilton Garden Inn
1307 E Market Street
Akron, OH 44305

Contact

Joe Richards

akron@imachapter.org