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Dates and location
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Description
Most organizations manage their income statement, but many virtually ignore the balance sheet until balance sheet problems create seemingly insurmountable emergencies. This session discusses how to analyze and manage your financial statements more holistically, allowing you to identify and correct balance sheet issues early.
How do you choose whether to raise debt or equity? What are the key considerations and the advantages of each? What is the cost of capital? What are the ‘hidden’ balance sheet risks? We will also examine several crucial ideas you can incorporate into your analysis to enhance performance and reduce risk. If you want to enhance your corporate finance skills, this session is for you.
Topics Covered:
- Understanding and analyzing your balance sheet today and in the future.
- Deliberately plan the structure of your balance sheet!
- Intentionally managing your balance sheet to reduce risk.
- Understand your cost of capital.
- Interpret your cost of capital.
- Properly balance debt and equity versus other funding sources.
- Know the balance sheet pitfalls and risks to avoid.
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this seminar, members will learn how to:
- Design and manage your balance sheet to optimize capital efficiency.
- Master the components and interpretation of cost of capital.
- Identify and avoid common balance sheet pitfalls.
Who Will Benefit
CEOs, CFOs, Controllers, business owners, Board members, corporate financial managers, and professionals who advise them.
How to Access the Course
This course is delivered as a live webinar. To receive verifiable CPD hours, you must attend the session live. We recommend joining at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time. For the best interactive experience, please use a computer equipped with a camera and microphone.
A reminder email with the Zoom link and course details will be sent two business days before the session. If you do not receive it, please check your spam or junk folder.
The same information, including any available materials, will also be posted in advance on our Blackboard LMS.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Brian Maturi, MBA, FCA has 45 years’ financial management experience in the UK and US, including five years with Deloitte Touche and 22 years with BorgWarner, Inc. where he was a divisional VP-Finance and Corporate Director of Risk Management. His favorite topics include ethics of risk management, management accounting and currency, commodity, and interest rate hedging. Brian holds a bachelor’s in Economics, an MBA and is an English Institute of Chartered Accountants fellow.