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<font face="Arial" color="#333333" style="font-weight:700" size="4">Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements</font></p>

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		This seminar takes the mystery out of financial statements!</font></b></p>

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The ability to understand and analyze financial information is essential in all 

areas of legal practice including estate planning, corporate formation and 

representation, business valuation, family law, bankruptcy, litigation, workers  

compensation, and even sound law firm management. After Enron and 

Sarbanes-Oxley, it has become more important than ever for accounting 

misstatements and corporate financial manipulations to be understood and 

avoided.</font></p>

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This basic-to-intermediate level seminar will show you easily adaptable 

techniques for reading a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash 

flows, helping you to spot vital financial and legal issues.</font></p>

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You ll be better equipped to communicate with accounting and financial 

professionals and to know whether you should place reliance on financial 

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<b>Seminar Highlights</b></font></p>

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	<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2">All essential accounting concepts explained in plain language</font></p>

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	<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2">Analyzing the statement   from short-term liquidity to cash flow and forecasting 

and return of invested capital</font></p></li>

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	<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2">The manipulation, use and abuse of financial statements and other misleading 

practices</font></p></li>

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	<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2">Special reporting issues including leases, contingent liabilities and business 

combinations</font></p></li>

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	<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2">Reporting methods, audits, compilations, income vs. cash flow, depreciable 

assets, capitalization vs. expensing, and inventory flow assumptions</font></p>

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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>What Past Attendees Say</b></font></p>

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	<font face="Arial" size="2">Over the years I have attended 

a number of seminars that 

attempted to accomplish the same objective. This was by far the best.</font></i></p>

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	<font face="Arial" size="2">Very focused and not unduly technical   an excellent course for non-accountants.</font></i></p>

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	<font face="Arial" size="2">Clear explanation of difficult accounting theories and terms.</font></i></p>

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	<font face="Arial" size="2">Very good for those who need to learn or re-learn the basics.</font></i></p>

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	<font face="Arial" size="2">I studied all of this in school, but was surprised how much I ve forgotten or 

that I misunderstood. It all seems clearer now   great review.</font></i></p>

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