Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer

This comprehensive resource provides detailed guidance on how to analyze the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. With added chapters and updates to stay current with the ever-changing and complex rules, this guide will help you.

Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer

Robert B Dickie, Perter Russo

ABA Book Publishing

2020

Abstract

To help lawyers gain a practical, working knowledge of financial concepts, terminology, and documents, this new edition provides the know-how to translate a client's financial goals into practical legal solutions. Whether handling the sale of a company, negotiating a loan agreement, preparing disclosure documents, or handling securities cases, this book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, explains which valuation techniques are suitable for specific situations, and weighs the risks and rewards of creating value by acquisition.

This comprehensive resource provides detailed guidance on how to analyze the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. With added chapters and updates to stay current with the ever-changing and complex rules, this guide will help you:

• Understand the content and purpose of financial statements and the rules by which they are prepared
• Identify and avert securities fraud by knowing how to analyze revenues
• Learn the warning signs in gross margins, operating margins, and net margins
• Recognize the degree of liquidity or illiquidity the balance sheet indicates
• Assess a company's financial leverage
• Learn how to monitor a company's operating, investing, and financing activities
• Identify whether a company is an absorber or generator of cash
• Explore the M&A process
• And much more!

A detailed index and glossary of common terms and abbreviations and terms are also included.

Contents:

• Financial statements overview;
• The income statement-revenues;
• Income statement-expenses;
• The asset side of the balance sheet;
• The liability & equity side of the balance sheet;
• The cash flow statement;
• Interpreting the financials;
• What can we learn about a company?;
• Introduction to valuation;
• The use of comparables;
• Calculating the return on capital;
• The cost of debt;
• The cost of equity;
• The weighted average cost of capital;
• Valuting the company;
• Refinements of the discounted cash flow method and methods derived from it;
• Creating value by acquisition;
• A map for value creation.

Citation

Robert B Dickie, Perter Russo; Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer; ABA Book Publishing; 2020

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