12-Hour Program

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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.

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