Course Description

Financial ratios can be extremely valuable tools for CPAs to analyze an organization’s financial and operational position. Key stakeholders rely on financial ratios for decision-making including: Liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, leverage ratios, and activity ratios. In this webinar, Matthew Briggson, CPA will walk through how to calculate highly relevant ratios under each category, discuss how to use various benchmarks, and explain how CPAs can use these calculations to aid in identifying opportunities and risks. 

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the key stakeholders who benefit from specific types of financial ratio calculations.
• Identify financial ratio benchmarks utilized when analyzing financial ratio calculations.
• Discover the four financial ratio categories and their purpose.
• Recognize how to calculate specific ratios within the financial ratio categories.

Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of financial statement accounts.

Who Should Attend

CPAs, accounting/finance professionals who analyze financial data.