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From the program: How to Read Financial Statements 2012

Released on: May. 8, 2012

DVD's from the program How to Read Financial Statements 2012, held March, 2012.

From the program: Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2012: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know

Released on: May. 29, 2012

Accounting is a language of business. Because attorneys encounter accounting information in a wide range of legal issues, it is critical for lawyers to understand financial statements and core accounting concepts. This practical course, specifically designed for the non-accountant attorney, will provide an understanding of financial statements and the key principles of accounting, using “real life” examples of accounting issues that attorneys ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good afternoon. I have the pleasure of introducing Ken Yormark. He is the director and Navigants Global Investigations and Compliance Practice. Ken focuses on forensic accounting, financial investigations, litigation consulting, and anti-corruption risk assessments. He works with management at major corporations, noted law firms, and government agencies, primarily in regard to internal investigations, litigation matters, and anti-corruption ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

SPEAKER: Good morning. How's everybody today? Ready to get started? We've got two of my very dearest friends presenting today. To my immediate right, T.C. Fleming. And to his right, John Molenda. I'm going to let them give you their credentials. They're going to be talking about cash flow. As a reminder, just real quickly, turn off your phones. And if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask us. That's what we're here for. Take care. T.C. FLEMING: ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

JORGE A. AMADOR: It's 11:02. We're going to get started with the presentation on the balance sheet. I'd like to introduce-- we have two great speakers for you that will speak to you about the balance sheet. First is Colleen Vallen. She's an expert in the field of forensic and investigative accounting. For the past nine years, Colleen has focused her attention on forensic and fraud investigations and the preparation of financial damage analysis. She ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

JORGE A. AMADOR: Good morning. The next session is the Importance of the Notes to the Financial Statements, the Rest of the Story. First I'd like to introduce our two speakers for this session. First it's John Carney. He's a partner at Baker Hostetler, a former Securities Fraud Chief Assistant US Attorney. At the SEC, Senior Counsel and practicing CPA. Serves as co-leader of the firm's national White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations group, ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

JORGE A. AMADOR: Good afternoon. I hope everyone had a enjoyable lunch. I'd like to introduce Glenn Newman. He's a partner at ParenteBeard. Glenn provides a variety of financial consulting and accounting services to attorneys, insurance companies, governmental agencies, public and private corporations. He's been doing this since 1980. Prior to joining ParenteBeard in 1993, he spent approximately nine years with a national accounting firm. He specializes ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

KAREN KINCAID BALMER: OK. Our first session today I have the privilege of presenting. I was supposed to co-speak with Lisa Smith from BST. It's probably on your schedule. Lisa's unable to be here today, so I will be doing the entire presentation. Jorge is going to interject from time to time. Let's get started. We're going to start with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, International Financial Reporting Standards, and Generally Accepted Auditing ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

SPEAKER: All right, so we're going to get started on the ethical implications of attorney collaborations with accounting experts. And earlier in the morning you met both John and T.C., so no need for another introduction. JOHN MOLENDA: Good afternoon, everybody. You couldn't get enough of us the first time, so we're back again for some fun with ethics in this nice rainy afternoon. Just to refresh your memories, I'm John Molenda, I'm from Mayer Brown, ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Summer 2012

Released on: Jun. 19, 2012

An understanding of key financial, accounting and economic concepts, principles and terminology will contribute to your ability to interact with and advise your clients with their critical issues.  The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for both external and in-house attorneys.  Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC SLOAN: All right, so our final panel is on professional ethics and transactional setting, and for that we continue to Brad Borden, and joining Brad is Dennis Ventry. Dennis is a professor UC Davis where he teaches tax and legal ethics in corporate practice. This is the ethics credit part of-- BRAD BORDEN: It is going to be interesting anyway. DENNIS VENTRY JR.: Especially combined with tax. So I think the hook on this, and the reason why tax ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC SLOAN: ALL right, we're going to get started again. Hopefully everyone has coffee because, you know, at around 3 o'clock is when the caffeine is really needed. But we have a great panel today to keep you awake and interested. So we're going to focus on capital structure considerations in financing. And to do that we have another great panel. To my immediate right is Bill Brentani. Bill is a partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in Palo ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK, thank you. Welcome back, and I'm pleased to introduce the dynamic duo of Dan Berner and Jason Downing. Dan is a Deloitte partner out of the Dallas, Texas audit practice. Deloitte's been serving large audit clients for the past 22 years, and has significant experience with SEC matters, including initial and follow-on registration statements, acquisitions, divestitures, and period filings. And our other colleague, Jason Downing, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPA: OK. Welcome back. We're going to get started with our next topic, which is integrated performance management. I'm pleased to welcome back Dan Berner, a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Jason Downing, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. And they're going to kind of build on the basic introduction to financial statements that they gave you yesterday. And we'll get into a more practical read of how to actually read and analyze ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: All right, welcome back. For our next panel we have three really great speakers. To my immediate right is Doug Lane. Doug is a managing director at GLC Advisors which is a leading independent restructuring advisory firm. And before joining GCL Doug was with UBS's restructuring and leveraged finance group in San Francisco. And Doug is actually back-- this is your second year? DOUG LANE: Second year, yeah. Thank you. ERIC B. SLOAN: ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: Our first panel is on an overview of the relevant accounting frameworks and sources of information. And to handle this and to start things off, we're really fortunate to have Erik Moe. Erik is a Director with Deloitte. He focuses on financial accounting and reporting. He has an in-depth knowledge of a broad range of issues, including issues related to M&A, private equity, and IFRS, and he'll explain what that means. Erik? ERIK ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: Good morning and welcome back to day two of Pocket MBA, Finance for Lawyers, the summer program. I'm pleased to welcome this morning Ken Herzinger and Dan Knappenberger. Ken is a partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe's San Francisco office, and is a member of the Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement group. Ken's practice focuses on SEC and related criminal investigations and enforcement actions, securities class ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: Let me introduce for you our next panelist, the sole panelist, is Brad Borden. Brad is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches federal income tax. He focuses on partnership taxation, real estate taxation, and related matters. And Brad is going to take us through the financial analysis of non-corporate entities. BRADLEY T. BORDEN: Thanks Eric. And also thanks for inviting me to participate today. I think originally ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: OK. Well, welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful lunch. We're going to start the second half of our day off with a great team of presenters here. I'm pleased to welcome back Professor Jennifer Blouin and Brian Doyle. They were both here with us last year and did a great job. They're going to speak to us on the practical elements of finance. Jennifer Blouin is an associate professor of accounting at the Wharton School of Business ...

From the program: Audit Committee Workshop 2012

Released on: Jul. 6, 2012

As we continue to see many new regulations from the SEC, PCAOB, CFTC and financial institution regulators, numerous challenges emerge for the audit committee.  If you are a director or member of an audit committee, or if you advise audit committees, this program will help you understand what is required of the audit committee in this new and rapidly changing environment.  An expert faculty of public company directors who have served on audit ...

Recorded on: Jun. 26, 2012

GENE CAPELLO: Well sorry for the fire drill here, but there was no break in between, so we're going right into our next panel. Those are risk issues that keep audit committee members awake at night. Let me introduce our panelists, some of whom you've already met. To my right is Nina Henderson of Henderson Advisory. And Nina has a tremendous amount of experience on boards of directors and on audit committees. She has been Director of AXA Financial, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 26, 2012

JOHN OLSON: Well, this is the last panel of the day. This is the ethics panel. For those of you who were here for CLE, this is the medicine that we all have to take each year. So we try to sugarcoat it by setting up an interesting hypothetical. And we've got a terrific panel, yours truly excluded, to help us talk about some ethical issues that arise in a context having to do with whistle blowers and accounting issues and financial controls. So hopefully ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

Taken from the briefing U.S.-Listed Chinese Companies: Enforcement and Accounting Issues recorded August, 2012. Until recently, the many Chinese companies seeking to “go public” in the United States did so through reverse mergers.  Compared to the traditional IPO process, reverse mergers offered significant cost and speed advantages for Chinese companies hoping to list on U.S. exchanges and access the U.S. capital ...

Recorded on: Oct. 2, 2012

Please note: There will be no CLE credit for this briefing! Taken from the briefing Law Firm Finance 101 - Understanding the Numbers that Matter recorded September, 2012. Law firm leaders operate with a financial view of the firm at the center of every decision.  To achieve your goals, you need a strong foundation in what makes - and keeps - your firm profitable.  Learn to speak the language your firm's decision makers understand. This ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2012

Released on: Oct. 26, 2012

An understanding of key accounting, financial and economic concepts, principles and terminology will contribute to your ability to interact with and advise your clients with their critical issues. The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for both external and in-house attorneys. Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit from this practical ...