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.  The panelists will discuss basic 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

• Identify the asset, liability, and equity sections of a balance sheet

• Understand revenues and expenses in the income statement

• Interpret the statement of cash flows including cash from operations

• Learn how to calculate EBITDA and free cash flow

• Analyze certain financial metrics and qualitative factors that can be potential warning signs, indicative of a need for more in depth investigations

• Learn to calculate key ratios with examples

Special Features:

•          Convenient half- day program format

•          NY Transitional attorneys: Earn Skills credit

Who Should Attend

The program is targeted to attorneys who are seeking a basic understanding of reading financial statements. 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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