CPAs in management roles who are looking to improve their company's cash flow.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation you will be able to...
- State the relationship between sustainable growth, core earnings, and company cash flow
- Recognize how time assessments and customer segmentation can be used to identify cash flow negative clients.
- Identify common behavioral biases which influence how a company spends money
- List behavioral biases that prevent companies from being streamlined
- State techniques that may be used to make cost cutting a part of the company's culture and business strategy
- Identify techniques that may be used to discern whether or not additional headcount is necessary
- Recognize vertical and horizontal financial statement analysis
- List contracting and negotiation techniques
- Recognize the business cycle and how cash flow management changes during each stage
Major Topics
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:
- How do I optimize cash flow?
- Qualitative Evaluations – Core Earnings & Sustainable Growth
- Quantitative Evaluations – Liquidity Ratios
- Increasing Customer Base vs. Payment Terms
- Business Cycle & Cash
- Investing Company Cash
- What keeps companies from becoming streamlined?
- Behavioral Finance Biases
- Information Processing Biases
- Emotional Biases
- Dealing with Behavioral Biases
