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Financial Statements
The financial statements and reports class provides basic knowledge of balance sheets, profit and loss, retained earnings and cash flow as found in annual reports.
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The Financial Statements class is designed to provide entrepreneurs with a better understanding of their company’s financial health and well-being, as well as reading the reports of potential customers and vendors. Financial reports are like a roadmap of the financial well-being for any business. Often business owners don’t know how to read that roadmap so they can understand and communicate their company’s financial position. This class is a good source of financial reporting education for both beginning entrepreneurs and established business owners. |
- Auditor’s letter and what it means
- Reading between the lines of financial reports
- Understanding the value of the Notes
- Reviewing the importance of MD&A
- Using budget reports to find red flags
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- Analyzing sales results
- Determining payable trends
- Exploring inventory trends
- Quickly measuring cash status
- Knowing that you can pay the bills
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Classes utilize two hours of “accelerated” instructor audio content with twenty pages of class lessons. All
classes include downloadable “Action Guides” with step-by-step action items applicable to all businesses.
Students gain access to a Question and Answer reference page where they can submit questions and
review answers to class content. Sound card and Flash player required.
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1) A better understanding of basic financial statements and reports.
2) Knowledge of your company’s financial health.
3) The ability to read between the lines of financial statements of your customers and vendors. |
- Two hours of laser specific step-by-step content delivered to you through our exclusive audio lessons.
- Over twenty pages of “accelerated” class content lessons.
- Class Checklist: keeps you focused on your objectives so you can systematically reach your goals.
- Class Action Guide: provides you with action items that get you working on your business during class!
- Access to Question and Answer website: submit questions and review answers to class content.
- A full 60 days of access to Class Content (See F.A.Q. for details)
Students can APPLY THESE EXPERT LESSONS in under 20 hours of due diligence on their own business to fulfill the action items of this Class.
See Special Offer Above
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Lita Epstein ran the financial accounting lab as a teaching assistant in her MBA program at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. After receiving her MBA, she managed finances for a small nonprofit organization and the facilities management section of a large medical clinic.
Now she enjoys helping people and businesses develop good financial, investing, and tax planning skills. She designs and teaches online courses on topics such as investing for retirement, getting ready for tax time, and business financial management.
She has written more than 25 books and is the author of Reading Financial Reports for Dummies and Bookkeeping for Dummies (Wiley), as well as Streetwise Crash Course MBA (Adams Media Corporation). Lita also is the author of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Accounting, the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Improving Your Credit Score and the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Value Investing (Penguin Putnam).
Lita was the content director for a financial services website, MostChoice.com and managed the website Investing for Women. You can find her online regularly at either Bloggingstocks.com or WalletPop.com.
As a Congressional press secretary, Lita gained firsthand knowledge about how to work within and around the federal bureaucracy, which gives her great insight into how government programs work. In the past, Lita has been a daily newspaper reporter, a magazine editor, and an associate director for development at The Carter Center.
For fun, Lita enjoys scuba diving and is certified as an underwater photographer. She hikes, canoes, and enjoys surfing the Web to find its hidden treasures.
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