How to Analyze Financial Statements

Why Should You Attend:

Accounting and finance is supposed to be the international language of business. If so, then why do we struggle so much to make sense of the numbers? Are we so busy managing our business and leading our staff, that we don’t have time to wade through the financials, discover the trends, draw proper conclusions and take appropriate action? What if our peers, or worse, our competition understands our numbers better than we do? In this session, Miles Hutchinson, experienced CGMA and business adviser, will explain how to quickly and thoroughly analyze the financial condition and results of operations of any publicly traded company! He will provide you with an analysis model that will help you repeat the process long after the course has faded away from memory.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Review the components of the annual report of a prominent publicly traded company and learn how to use this wealth of information to evaluate financial health, strength, risk profile and performance
• Use the annual report to perform a fundamental financial analysis
• Learn the various types of financial analysis and their purpose
• Learn the key ratios to evaluate a company’s liquidity, leverage and operating performance
• Identify the key benchmarks to help determine how a company’s ratios compare with their competitors
• Understand horizontal and vertical analysis and how they can be used to identify key interrelationships and trends
• Bonus: receive our advanced ExcelTM-based financial model complete with ratios, horizontal and vertical analysis
• Key Benefit: Use our proven model to perform financial analysis on any company’s financial statements, including yours
• Learn how to benchmark your analysis against the competition
• Learn about resources available to perform comparative studies between companies in the same economic sector – including private companies

Who Will Benefit:

• Nonfinancial Executives
• Board Members
• Business Advisors
• Business Unit Managers
• Department Managers
• Budget Managers
• Accounting Managers
• Accounting Staff
• Bank Managers
• Loan Officers
• HR Managers
• IT Managers
• Risk Managers
• Information Reporting Officers
• Compliance Officers
• Compliance Managers

Miles Hutchinson
President, Sales Tax Advisors Inc

Miles Hutchinson is a CGMA and experienced businessman. He has been an auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Chief Financial Officer of a $1 billion real estate development company. Miles is a professional speaker and consultant who has presented over 2,500 seminars and training sessions on a myriad of business and financial topics, like financial analysis and modeling, accounting, strategic planning, and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He is recognized as an expert in payroll and sales & use tax as well as financial modeling & analysis, business strategy and communications.

He is the author of several useful accounting and tax tools available at www.soxpolicies.com and www.salestaxadvisors.com. His clients include, Abbott Labs, Bank of America, Boston Scientific, CBS, Citicorp, Corning, the FBI, the FDA, the Federal Reserve, GE, Pfizer, Siemens, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Army. Please visit his web sites to see how you can further benefit from his expertise.

Topic Background:

Since the beginning of commerce, businesses have struggled to manage and grow with discipline. One of the core principles is an understanding of the numbers. “How did we do last month?” “How much cash is available to finance our new project?” “Do we need to raise more capital and should we raise debt or equity?” “How profitable is a certain product or distribution channel?” “How do we determine when a product is no longer worth our efforts?” These are very important questions which require a strong understanding of their financial impacts.

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