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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and KPI Dashboards (Course Id 2045)

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Author:

Rob Stephens, Founder of CFO Perspective, Adjunct Instructor Gonzaga University

Course Length:

Pages: 24 ||| Word Count: 15,735 ||| Review Questions: 8 ||| Final Exam Questions: 13

CPE Credits:

2.5

IRS Credits:

0

Price:

$22.45

Passing Score:

70%

Course Type:

Text
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and KPI Dashboards - CPE course for CPAs

Technical Designation:

Technical

Field Of Study:

Management Services

Approved Audience:

NASBA QAS - NASBA Registry

Key Takeaways:

This course explains how KPIs and KPI dashboards support business development by enabling focused performance tracking and better decision making across teams.

  • Cites survey data showing that 68% of businesses using KPIs noticed a positive impact on business development.
  • Notes that 43% of survey respondents reported measurable improvement in objectively evaluating results achievement.
  • Explains how a KPI dashboard cuts through the clutter of numbers to highlight the most important success measures.
  • Worth 2.5 CPE credits in Management Services as a self study text course on KPIs and KPI dashboards, requiring a 13 question final exam preceded by 8 review questions (optional) and a 70% passing score.

Frequently Asked Questions:

This Key Performance Indicators KPIs and KPI Dashboards course builds critical success factors as the foundation for its KPI metrics.

This course explores types of metrics and how to measure them when building a KPI dashboard.

This course teaches how to set targets after picking a set of metrics for a KPI dashboard.

This course explores software options for building KPI dashboards.

Key Performance Indicators KPIs and KPI Dashboards is a Technical, self study text course in Management Services worth 2.5 CPE credits, requiring a 13 question final exam preceded by 8 review questions (optional) at a 70% passing score. CPEthink is approved by NASBA as a CPE sponsor and lists this course on the NASBA site as a courtesy for CPAs to search https://nasba.org.

Description:

In a survey of businesses that used KPIs, 68% of respondents noticed a positive impact on their business development after implementing a KPI Framework. Further, 43% of respondents noted improvement, defined as being able to 'objectively evaluate the level of results achievement. *

A KPI dashboard cuts through the clutter of numbers so a company can monitor the most important measures of its success. Business leaders can quickly see if they need to make changes or celebrate successes. Each KPI helps assess whether the business is achieving its business strategy.

KPIs improve a company’s performance by increasing:

  • Focus
  • Clarity
  • Alignment
  • Speed of Feedback
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Performance

This course covers:

  • The benefits and roles of KPIs
  • How to pick a set of metrics
  • Setting targets
  • The components of a KPI dashboard
  • Pros and cons of using spreadsheets, data visualization software, or dashboard software
  • Sample dashboards and metric displays
  • The process of implementing KPIs
  • Tips for managing with KPIs
  • Pros and cons of using KPIs to set compensation

The instructor has developed KPIs and KPI dashboards for small entrepreneurs to a $2 billion company.

* From The State of Performance Improvement and Key Performance Indicator Practice Report by The KPI Institute

Usage Rank:

19286

Release:

2022

Version:

1.0

Prerequisites:

None.

Experience Level:

Overview

Additional Contents:

Complete, no additional material needed.

Additional Links:

Advance Preparation:

None.

Delivery Method:

QAS Self Study

Intended Participants:

Anyone needing Continuing Professional Education (CPE).

Revision Date:

25-Oct-2025

NASBA Course Declaration:

Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase and with a minimum passing grade of 70% or better to receive CPE credit unless otherwise noted on the Course History page (i.e. California Ethics must score 90% or better). After logging in click on the Course History links on your My Courses page for the Begin date and Expire date for the Final Exam.

Keywords:

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and KPI Dashboards - CPE course for CPAs

Learning Objectives:

Course Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
  • Discover the benefits of KPIs and KPI dashboards
  • Explore software options for building KPI dashboards
  • Discover the characteristics of effective KPIs
  • Explore the steps in implementing KPIs

Course Contents:

Chapter 1 - Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and KPI Dashboards

Section 1: The Basics and Benefits of KPIs

1.1 Welcome to the Course

1.2 The Basics and Benefits of KPIs

1.3 The Role of KPIs

Section 2. Building Metrics

2.1 Critical Success Factors

2.2 Types of Metrics

2.3 Measuring Metrics

2.4 Picking a Set of Metrics

2.5 Setting Targets

Review Questions #1

2.7 Periodic Targets

2.8 Should You Set Stretch Targets?

Section 3. KPI Dashboards

3.1 Purposes of a dashboard

3.2 Dashboard Components

3.3 Communicating with Symbols

3.4 KPI Dashboard Software and Samples

Section 4. Implementing KPIs

4.1 Picking Metrics

4.2 Set Targets

4.3 Who Should See Dashboards and Metrics?

4.4 Rolling Out the KPI Dashboard

4.5 Ongoing Monitoring and Management

4.6 KPIs and Compensation

Section 5. Key Takeaways

5.1 Key Takeaways

Review Questions #2

Glossary/Index

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