3-Hour Program

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Overview

How to Read Financial Statements 2016

New York City and Live Webcast, www.pli.edu, March 16

 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 provide real world examples of how to interpret, understand, and analyze data in financial statements.

 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
  • Learn how to calculate EBITDA and free cash flow
  • Learn how to calculate, interpret, and analyze important financial ratios
  • Analyze financial metrics and qualitative factors that can be potential warning signs, indicative of a need for more in depth investigations
  • 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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