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Need Financial Statements Training?

To most business owners, managers, and other non-financial professionals, financial statements and their terminology are quite confusing and frustrating to understand.

However, as an accountant or CPA you need be able to not only understand, analyze, and interpret the components of financial statements accurately, but be able to effectively communicate and make recommendations to your clients based upon your analysis. And we can help!

The CPA Training Center provides several financial statement training courses that teach you to read income statements, balance sheets, and cash-flow statements - and use this information to be able to assess and understand the financial performance of your or your client companies and organizations.

The Accounting Training Center offers Financial Statements training courses, classes, and Financial Statements webinars to assist with your Financial Statements training needs. Here is just some of what you will learn:

• How to decipher general accounting terminology and gain a clear understanding of the language of finance and accounting
• Insights to vastly improve your working knowledge and interpretive ability for balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• How to use your enhanced knowledge of financial statements to develop better budgeting, projection, and forecasting skills
• Interpreting annual reports: how to translate their deluge of information into knowledge that can help you make informed decisions
• How to better communicate with accountants, bankers, comptrollers, and other finance professionals
• Using financial ratios to analyze trends, conduct industry comparisons, and predict financial problems before they become insurmountable
• Using comparative analysis to analyze an organization's financial picture over a specified period of time
• Using horizontal analysis to determine increases or decreases in income, profits, and expenses
• Using vertical analysis to compare individual income and expense amounts with net sales
• Using ratios to determine profitability: proven formulas for net profit margin, net operating margin, return on assets, return on equity, earnings per share, and more
• What financial statements can't tell you - review the limitations of financial analysis

Find Financial Statement Training Courses

To find Financial Statements training courses and Financial Statements classes, simply click on any of the recommended selections below, or search under "Professional Development" in the search box thereafter for "Accounting/Finance".