Accounting Analysis Basics 2024
4.00 Credits
Member Price $159
Non-Member Price $209
Overview
Develop financial reporting expertise to conduct an accounting analysis and detect distortions in financial statements. Accounting savvy permits the business analyst to leverage financial information to manage and implement business plans. Gain the tools necessary to become skilled at such analyses. Review the impact of financial and accounting data on the function of capital markets in relation to the changing economic landscape and globalization.
Highlights
- Accounting analysis and methodology
- Factors influencing the quality of accounting-based financial reports
- Impact of emerging business models on balance sheets
- Introduction to the Instructor's Open Balance Sheet
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
CPAs and financial professionals.
Objectives
- Identify techniques to manage through higher-quality financial analysis effectively
- Determine areas of improvement for better asset utilization
- Implement superior business plans through informed financial analysis
- Determine costs and restructure a stronger revenue-generating balance sheet
- Identify a methodology consisting of six steps in analyzing accounting data
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Robert Bedwell, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC
Bob Bedwell, CPA, is an Audit and Advisory Principal at Mallah Furman, with over 35 years of audit and accounting experience. Bob regularly assists clients with a full range of corporate audit and assurance services, including financial statement preparation, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, financing regulatory compliance, accounting system oversight, internal controls, IFRS conversions, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance advisory, and the independent review of external data.
Bob has been a discussion leader on numerous topics for the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as for the firms for which he has worked, and has received high evaluations for his knowledge of topics and presentation skills.
Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, and has also earned a Masters in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Bob is a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and the International Association of Practicing Accountants (IAPC). He has previously served as chairman of the FICPA Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee.
Non-Member Price $209
Member Price $159