Webcast description

Accountants are the experts at preparing financial statements, but many are taken outside of their comfort zone when asked to analyze and interpret them in depth.

However, these analytical techniques should be a critical part of your finance toolkit. They help you elevate your skills to a more strategic level and gain deep insights into the financial health of an organization.

This webcast will help you understand the best practices for reading and interpreting financial statements, including the main steps involved, the key analytical techniques and financial ratios, and how all these are applied in practice 

With these tools in hand, you can make better business decisions, provide more insightful strategic input, and enhance your value as a source of financial expertise.

This presentation includes statements of a real, known company. Presenter Karine Benzecar will perform a live analysis of the company, giving a practical demonstration of how to review financial statements, extract key information, and make an assessment about a company’s financial health. 

This webcast will teach you to

• create common-size analysis of financial statements
• identify the key categories of financial ratios and the information each provides
• analyze financial statements 
• describe the health of a company based on key financial indicators

Presentation outline

• The best ways to extract key information from financial statements
  
• Common-size analysis
• Balance Sheet
• Income Statement
• Key categories of financial ratios
• Liquidity Ratios
• Activity Ratios
• Leverage Ratios
• Profitability Ratios
• Analysis of a real, known company
  
• Assessment of the health of a company

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Karine Benzacar, MBA, FCMA, CPA (Del), is Managing Director of Knowledge Plus Corp., an organization which specializes both in business training and in providing financial, accounting, and management information services. Karine is a seasoned industry professional with more than 15 years of solid industry experience. After beginning her career in the finance departments of Avon Products Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc., she held senior financial management positions at three major Canadian Banks — Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Bank of Montreal. She has been working with IFRS since 2005 with selected clients.  

Karine obtained an MBA from McGill University in Montreal. In addition to her industry experience, Karine has been teaching undergraduate and MBA courses at several leading universities including the University of Toronto, Concordia University, and Ryerson University. She is a highly acclaimed industry expert and has presented at international industry conferences. She has published numerous articles in leading journals such as The Bottom Line, Financial Post, Canadian HR Reporter, HRPAO Magazine, and The RMA Journal and has been quoted as an industry expert in industry publications.