Telestrat is a worldwide leader in continuing legal education (CLE) courses. Our Telestrat MBA Seminar Series has brought the world of finance, accounting, and business strategy to lawyers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Live Webcasts

Telestrat periodically holds live interactive webcasts covering business topics. These live webcasts are scheduled at specific times and include both an online component and a phone teleconference.

Accounting Part II: Financial Analysis

Format:Live webcast - facilitates real-time interaction with instructor
Date:September 5, 2008
Time:12pm - 2pm Eastern, 9am - 11am Pacific
CLE Credits:Usually 1.5 - 2 depending on the state
Presented by:Max Minkoff, Corporate Executive, Business Professor
Tuition:$199/ Session

The process of analyzing financial statements is involved in virtually every business decision. As corporate managers and bankers rely more on the advice of their inside and outside counsel, it is now imperative that an attorney better understand basic business decision making tools. This Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course serves as a follow up to our Understanding Financial Statements course and builds on its components. Specifically, this Continuing Legal Education (CLE/MCLE) course will allow you to understand different methods of analyzing financial statements, what they are used for, and who uses them.

  1. Introduction
    • Why Financial Analysis
    • Financial Analysis and the User
  2. Financial Analysis Techniques
    1. Activity Analysis
      • Inventory Turnover
      • Accounts Receivable Turnover
      • Accounts Payable Turnover
      • Cash Conversion Cycle
    2. Liquidity Analysis
      • Current Ratio
      • Quick Ratio
      • Cash Ratio
    3. Solvency Analysis
      • Debt to Cap Ratio
      • Debt to Equity Ratio
      • Interest Coverage Ratio
    4. Profitability Analysis
      • Gross Margin
      • EBITDA Margin
      • Profit Margin
    5. Market Analysis
      • PE Ratio
      • Dividend Yield
      • Price to Book Ratio
  3. Financial Analysis and Fraud
    • Trouble Spots
    • Prevention
  4. Conclusion

Max Minkoff

Corporate Executive, Business Professor

Max Minkoff is Chief Operating Officer of Telestrat Consulting, Inc., a financial advisory boutique which specializes in corporate valuation. Mr. Minkoff began his career with Rohm and Haas Company and has since served as CEO, COO, CFO, and CTO at a variety of emerging growth companies, beginning with VictorMaxx Technologies, a Virtual Reality consumer product company that he helped take public in 1995. Mr. Minkoff also started and worked with several other successful companies, including ShotTower LLC, a private-label foods manufacturer, Blogarithm, a popular Internet service for blog readers, and DocuVault Delaware Valley, a fast-growing records archive and destruction service.

Mr. Minkoff has taught university courses in business management and holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.