3-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Financial statements provide information on the financial performance of companies and are the language of business.  Attorneys are often required to understand financial statements in order to provide solutions to their clients’ problems, including structuring financial transactions and litigating business disputes.

At this practical half-day event, a distinguished panel of experts will provide a primer for understanding balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.  Among other things, the panelists will discuss key elements that all attorneys should be aware of when encountering these financial statements in the course of common business transactions and in litigation.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand how to read, understand, and analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
  • Learn how to calculate EBITDA and free cash flow
  • Evaluate important financial ratios
  • Analyze financial metrics and qualitative factors that can be potential warning signs, indicative of a need for more in depth investigations
  • Summarize how financial statement data is used to value companies
  • Explore EBITDA and P/E multiples

Special Features

  • Convenient half day program format
  • NY Transitional attorneys: Earn Skills credit

Credit Offered

  • CLE, CPE and CPD

Who Should Attend

Any attorney who works with financial information whether in the course of business transactions, including M&A and corporate financing transactions, securities filings, or in the context of litigation, will benefit from this program.

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