Balance Sheet Management

Most organizations manage their income statement, but many virtually ignore the balance sheet until balance sheet problems create seemingly insurmountable emergencies. This session discusses how to analyze and manage your financial statements more holistically, allowing you to identify and correct balance sheet issues early. How do you choose whether to raise debt or equity? What are the key considerations and the advantages of each? What is the cost of capital? What are the ‘hidden’ balance sheet risks? We will also examine several crucial ideas you can incorporate into your analyses to enhance performance and reduce risk. If you want to enhance your corporate finance skills, this session is for you.

Program Content and Topics Discussed

• Understanding and analyzing your balance sheet today and in the future.
• Deliberately plan the structure of your balance sheet!
• Intentionally managing your balance sheet to reduce risk.
• Understand your cost of capital.
• Interpret your cost of capital.
• Properly balance debt and equity versus other funding sources.
• Know the balance sheet pitfalls and risks to avoid.

Understand the analysis and decision-making process through real-world examples and five interactive case discussions.

Cases and Group Discussion
This seminar includes group discussion of eight case studies.

Target Audience
CEOs, CFOs, Controllers, business owners, Board members, corporate financial managers, and professionals who advise them.

Level of Knowledge
Intermediate

Acronym
BSM

CPE Credit
Four (4) hours

Field of Study
Finance

Prerequisite
Some corporate finance classwork or experience would be helpful. Participants should have at least six months of industry experience and thorough knowledge of financial accounting principles and practices. Participants with the title of Financial Analyst, Accountant, Senior Accountant, Manager, Controller, Director,
Treasurer, Accounting Manager, CFO, CEO, or similar roles, will benefit.

Advanced Preparation
None