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Overview
Why You Should Attend
The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for attorneys and other professionals. Transactional and litigation attorneys will benefit from this practical course designed specifically for non-accountants and taught by members of the nation’s top accounting, tax and advisory firms, leading law firms, in-house counsel and universities.
What You Will Learn
• Key factors shaping financial reporting
• Foundational finance, accounting and economics terminology and principles
• How to “navigate” and understand the basic financial statements — the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows and statement of shareholders’ equity
• Practical corporate finance concepts, including financial ratios and analysis
• The use of valuations in business transactions and fairness opinions, as well as in common claims and defenses in litigation
• Examination of fraud in financial statements
Special Features:
• Earn ethics and skills credit
• Case studies and practical examples employed throughout the program
Who Should Attend
External and in-house attorneys and allied professionals who work with financial information in the course of litigation or in business transactions will benefit from this program.