CBA SKILLED LAWYER SERIES 2018

Understanding Balance Sheets

Balance sheets are relevant to a lawyer’s practice in various ways, including due diligence in business matters, M&A transactions, securities offerings, financing transactions, corporate litigation, and insolvency proceedings.

In this webinar, our knowledgeable speakers will review key concepts and an illustrative balance sheet to demonstrate the important information that corporate lawyers can glean from these documents.

Topics will include:

•  Basic accounting principles affecting the balance sheet
•  Comparison to the other financial statements
•  Components of a balance sheet: assets, liabilities, and equity
•  How to interpret balance sheets and their notes
•  Using balance sheet information in the legal context

This is the 2nd webinar of the Interpreting Financial Statements program.

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