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Interpreting & Assessing Company Financial Statements
This course is aimed at delegates familiar with the basic structure of company financial statements or as a progression from the 1-day courses: Interpreting Company Accounts and Assessing Company Performance and Introduction to Financial Accounting.
Course Introduction
This course is aimed at delegates familiar with the basic structure of company financial statements or as a progression from the 1-day courses: Interpreting Company Accounts and Assessing Company Performance and Introduction to Financial Accounting.
Who should attend?
People who are responsible for D&O client and underwriter liaison including those responsible for placing D&O liability insurance for new businesses. The course is equally pertinent to people who wish to learn more about balance sheet analysis.
Course Content
- exploring Company performance and potential through an analysis of the profit and loss account
- assessing the financial strength – liquidity and solvency through balance sheet analysis
- assessing the company cash management through the cash flow statement
- gauging the risks to future performance though projection of financial statements
- assessing the management and Governance capability of the Company
- a spreadsheet model will be used to identify the key areas of examination to assess probable future outcomes
- key areas of examination will be identified in respect of the key financial statements – the profit and loss account, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement
- the rationale of assessing prospects for mergers and takeovers will be discussed
- a further look at new business start-ups. The right and wrong ways of starting a business and how to interpret financial data from companies who do not have a track record
- new public offerings of securities– how they work and applicable time scales