Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Utilize resources for financial statement preparation.
- Identify efficient methods for preparing financial statements and related disclosures.
- Recognize techniques for financial statement analysis.
- Identify tools that facilitate analysis and apply tools and techniques to actual financial statements.
Parking is included in registration fee.
This comprehensive session is a must-attend event for accountants who prepare financial statements and want to explore best practices for discerning the stories told by financial statements. We discuss salient requirements for presenting financial information while considering the critical role of disclosure for lending relevance to financial statements. We also explore techniques that will allow participants to perform meaningful financial statement analysis and effectively communicate conclusions to decision-makers and other stakeholders.
Prerequisite:
Basic working
knowledge of financial statements.
Advanced
Preparation:
None
PRICING DETAILS
Register early to take advantage
of the best price! Please note, discounted pricing is already reflected in the
online price. No promo code is needed.
Through May 30: $292 MICPA Members /
$442 Non-Members
May 31 - June 13: $312 MICPA Members / $462 Non-Members
May 14 - June 27:
$332 MICPA Members / $482 Non-Members
- U.S. GAAP and Special purpose frameworks
- Form and content of financial statements: Balance sheets; Income statements; Statements of cash flows; Retained earnings and/or owners’ equity statements; Comprehensive income; Supplementary information
- Comparative vs. single-period financial statements
- Sufficiency of disclosures
- Illustrative disclosures frequently encountered in small-to-medium reporting entities
- Industry-specific nuances
- Purposes of financial statement analysis
- Trend analysis and vertical & horizontal analysis
- Simple and multivariate regression
- Analysis of metrics
- Assessment of liquidity, solvency, and profitability
- Using data visualizations
- The role of qualitative factors
CPAs in public practice or members in industry.
- Accounting
- Christopher J. Harper
Member
Non-Member