Financial Reporting for In-House Counsel - Refresh Your Knowledge

Introduction

Being able to find your way around a financial report with confidence and understanding is an important, if not, vital professional skill. This webinar is designed to provide the knowledge and understanding needed. Financial reporting is constantly evolving and changing, most recently to address issues such as leasing, reporting revenue and sustainability. Remembering the basic principles and concepts and being up to speed with the recent changes means you can be engaged with the information and fully understand the issues raised.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Reporting profit and loss and the key measures of profit such as ‘operating profit’ and EBITDA
• Understanding which financial period income and expenses relate to, recent issues around cost and revenue recognition (also known as cut-off)
• Understanding the balance sheet, the key target audience and the limitations
• Treatment of tangible and intangible assets and why the balance sheet reported value will not be the same as the market fair value
• The difference between liabilities, debt and equity and how liquidity is measured
• Summary of other key performance indicators (such as free cash flow) and recent regulatory changes - the issue of new UK Financial Reporting Standards (FRS)

This webinar was recorded on 31st July 2024

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