Course Description
A 90-min crash course for nonfinancial professionals
Do financial statements confuse you?
If you’re like many professionals, you’ve never been trained to read financial statements … or you learned about them long ago in college and you don’t recall much of what you learned back then.
It’s not that you want to become an accountant or a financial wizard. You’d just like to build a little know-how so you can feel more confident in financial conversations. Great news: This course was developed especially for YOU!
A fly-by view of the “most important of the most important” principles of reading financial statements
Think of this crash course as a financial flyover — you’ll see the big picture without studying all the details that your organization’s financial managers have to master.
In just 90 minutes, you’ll have a better understanding of “the most important of the most important” aspects of key financial statements.
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to give your financial know-how a big boost … make plans today to attend this powerful Webinar!
A Glimpse at What You’ll Learn …
- Cash basis vs. accrual basis: Understand the difference and why it matters for financial statements
- The balance sheet — what the business owns and what the business owes; it doesn’t get much simpler than that!
- The ins and outs of a balance sheet: assets, liabilities, and equity
- What a balance sheet can and can’t tell you about a company
- The income statement, the statement of operations, the P&L statement, the statement of activities — they’re all one and the same!
- The primary purpose of an income statement
- Tips for reading between the lines of an income statement
Q & A Session!
Upon enrolling in the webinar, you will have the opportunity to submit your questions via e-mail. Time permitting, your trainer will address questions from webinar participants. Many questions will be addressed in the webinar itself. Others will be addressed in the supporting materials that will be available exclusively to webinar participants.
Agenda
- Cash basis vs. accrual basis: Understand the difference and why it matters for financial statements
- The balance sheet — what the business owns and what the business owes; it doesn't get much simpler than that!
- The ins and outs of a balance sheet: assets, liabilities, and equity
- What a balance sheet can and can't tell you about a company
- The income
statement, the statement of operations, the P&L statement, the
statement of activities — they’re all one and the same!
- The primary purpose of an income statement
- Tips for reading between the lines of an income statement
Comments
Cancelation Policy: If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.