Financial Forensics for CI: Hot Industries & Sophisticated Players
Core Certification Course
FACULTY: SCHWARTZ
Distance Learning Only
Designed specifically for the Academy, the course will engage the experienced CI financial analyst or CPA and neophyte alike, this fast-paced, dynamic program will equip you to unravel your competitors' financial statements and zero in on potential financial challenges or new strategic initiatives.
Hot industries covered will include: computers, semiconductors, consulting services, internet hardware, financial services, appliances, leading-edge manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. International and domestic examples are both dramatic and up-to-date.
Spot "enhanced" earnings, "watered" assets, expenses paid from reserves and debts hidden off the balance sheet or in the footnotes
Decipher the minefield of "unusual items" (often disguised as operating expenses);
Identify "phantom" assets, games with inventories and accounts receivable and payables, and the role of pensions as the booster of profits or the "hiding place" of future disaster.
Understand the bifurcated impacts of expensing options, the curse of foreign reserves and the imbecility of EPS analyses.
