MFM Webinar To Focus On Disaster Planning

Media Financial Management Association (MFM) will offer a distance learning webinar on planning for — and recovering from — natural and other disasters that disrupt business operations and threaten profitability.  Scheduled for Thursday, April 25, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET, the CPE-accredited (Continuing Professional Education) webinar will be led by Greg Bartels CEO of IPS, a provider of paperless document management solutions; Charles Goldstein, the firm’s director of information technology; and Randy Schonfeld, an IPS financial operations consultant.

Webinar participants will learn about the various threats and risks to business operations, such as electrical, Internet and other utility outages; random failures of mission-critical systems; disruptions caused by natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes; the theft of vital information or material; cyber-attacks; fires;, epidemics; sabotage ; terrorism and wars or civil disorders.

The IPS Team will discuss common methodologies for addressing these types of threats and risks to data processing systems, which include using backup and recovery methods; cold, warm and hot disaster recovery sites; maintaining physical copies of paper as well as new technologies, such as cloud-based backup solutions. In addition, the experts will also explain unique challenges for data processing disaster recovery methodologies, including the limitations of paper-based processes.

“We are entering the peak seasons for disasters that collectively wreak tens of billions of dollars in losses to American businesses,” said Mary M. Collins, president-CEO of MFM and its BCCA subsidiary. “Now is the time to for media companies to ensure the back-office systems that serve as the life-blood for their financial operations are as prepared for dealing with a natural or man-made disaster as the other aspects of their businesses.”

Registered participants for the webinar who are interested in fulfilling continuing education requirements will be eligible to receive up to 1.5 CPE credits that may be applied to their certified public accounting (CPA) license. MFM is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

The registration fee is $74 for MFM members and $94 for non-members.  The deadline for registering at these rates is Tuesday, April 23. Late registrants may be required to pay an additional $20.   

Additional information about the Disaster Recovery Webinar and an online registration form may be found on MFM’s website here.